by crossriverwatch admin The Nigerian civil service which was painstakingly built since 1934 took the General Ibrahim Babangida administration only eight years to destroy through the Structural Adjustment Program which lasted from 1986 to 1994. Senator Liyel Imoke, the Cross River State governor gave this reminder in Calabar on Monday while making a keynote speech
by crossriverwatch admin The United Cement Company of Nigeria over the weekend unveiled a solar-powered borehole constructed at the cost of N2.6m for Akwa Ikot Effanga community in Akpabuyo Local Government Area of Cross River State. The Managing Director of UniCem, Mr. Olivier Lenoir, said the project was part of the company’s corporate social responsibility
by crossriverwatch admin The Obong of Calabar, Edidem Ekpo Okon Abasi-Otu V has said that several unfulfilled promises by the federal government on the dredging of the Calabar waterway, and which by extension should lead to improved economic activities in the Calabar port, was giving him sleepless night. The Monarch, who made the remarks in
by crossriverwatch admin There was uproar in the Obudu legislative council on Thursday following a fight amongst the councilors as they disagreed over the sharing of largess given them by the council chairman, Hon. Emmanuel Ikwen. Competent sources in the council told CrossRiverWatch that trouble started when the Leader of the Council’s legislature, Hon Ugar
by crossriverwatch admin CrossRiverWatch has reliably gathered that the Cross River State Command of the Nigeria Police is under undue pressure from powerful sources in the State Government to abandon the ongoing certificate forgery investigation against the State Commissioner for Information, Chief. Akin Rickett. The State Criminal Investigation Department SCID, Diamond Hill had in March,
by crossriverwatch admin The National Pension Commission today, Friday commissioned its’ South South Zonal office in Diamond Hill, Calabar. The Acting Director General of the Commission, Ms. Chinelo Anohu-Amazu said the Commission thought it expedient to establish zonal offices in all the six geopolitical zones of the country as way of decentralizing it activities to
by crossriverwatch admin In a bid to clean up notorious hide outs in Calabar South, the Cross River State command of the National Drug law Enforcement Agency on Friday announced the success of their Thursday raids in parts of Calabar South Local Government with the arrest of thirty narcotic drug peddlers in a special operation
by crossriverwatch admin Five staff of the Cross River State Internal Revenue Service have been arrested for allegedly cloning official receipts of the agency with which they gave to politicians to obtain tax clearance certificates to contest the 2013 local government elections in the state. Mr. Emmanuel Chris Ogar, the Chairman of the State Internal