By Jonathan Ugbal The last may not have been heard of the decision of the Cross River State Government to construct a passenger and cargo airport in Obudu Local Government Area as one of the host communities has claimed that over five hundred million Naira worth of crops have been destroyed so far. One of
By Efa Sunday, Government House Correspondent The Cross River State Governor, Senator Ben Ayade has directed that the recent allocation of Cocoa farms undertaken by the State Cocoa Allocation Committee be cancelled. A statement in Calabar by the Governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Christian Ita, quoted Professor Ayade instructing that the cancellation takes effect immediately.
By Philip Agba and Margaret John Cross River State has been noted as one of the States in Nigeria that have greatly benefitted from the mass media in terms of objective, impartial and balanced content due to its plurality of broadcast stations. The attribution was given at the one year anniversary lecture of Sparkling 92.3FM
In the past 24 hours, the social media have been inundated with reports about a cold war brewing between Cross River State Governor, Sen. Ben Ayade and a front line media activist and State Chairman of the AAC, Mr. Agba Jalingo over the later critical Facebook post about some activities of the Governor. Agba who
Now, let me make it clear that Ayade as Governor of Cross River State, has all it takes to arrest me and humiliate me and prosecute me and even put me in jail. I do not have any doubt about that in my mind. After all, he is Governor. Having said that, I also want
The Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) has taken a step that if followed through, will from June 1, 2019; make it very difficult for Governors to exert control over the utilization of LG allocations, as presently obtains. The Joint Allocation Accounts Committee (JAAC), where LG funds are paid into will now only exist for the
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The AAC State Chairman had alleged in an opinion article that about N4billion Naira was withdrawn from the State and Local government joint accounts, just before the last elections, to fund what the governor called ‘quick win projects’ in the 18 LGAs and that the memo never made it to exco to
This open legal opinion gratis is offered to Professor Ben Ayade both as Governor of Cross River State and visitor to Cross River University of Technology herein called CRUTECH. CRUTECH was established pursuant to Cross River University of Technology Law, Cap C19 LCRS 2004. It is on record that the following have been Vice Chancellors