By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Cross River House of Assembly has passed the 2018 appropriation bill of NGN1.3trillion presented by Governor Ben Ayade. Mr. Ayade had presented the budget before the House on November 30, 2017 and tagged it a “Buget of Kinetic Crystallization” which drew mixed reactions from the masses. And, on Thursday during plenary,
By Ushang Ewa CrossRiverWatch has reliably gathered that the Cross River State Finance Commissioner, Asuquo Ekpenyong Jr, had turned down appearing on a radio program; ‘The Dialogue With Agba Jalingo’ on Hit 95.9 FM Calabar to sing karaoke in his father’s hotel, Channels View Hotel. Mr. Ekpenyong had being invited to join the Special Adviser
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The NGN1.3 trillion 2018 appropriation bill of the Cross River State Government has scaled through the second reading on the floor of the state assembly. Majority Leader of the House, Mr Moses Ucheche, moved motion for the second reading of the bill on Friday, and said that the budget was designed to
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Only a few weeks ago the Cross River State Governor, Prof. Ben Ayade presented what was considered unprecedented in the history of budget making with a whooping N1.3trillion to the State House of Assembly. The size of the budget no doubt triggered a healthy debate across a broad spectrum of the society.
By CrossRiverWatch Admin OK, I hear that some people are bent on hanging themselves because of our proposed Budget of Kinetic Crystallization! “We go carry your body go police station, you die wrongfully!” Jeje!! It is either they are won’t to change or they are just negatively disposed to transposition as an ideology we have
By Monday Ogar: House of Assembly Correspondent The Cross River State House of Assembly has said that the proposed 2018 appropriation bill by the Cross River State Government will hold next week. The Assembly announced this on Twitter via its handle @CRS_HOA when it replied CrossRiverWatch’s News Editor, Jonathan Ugbal enquiry as to when the
By Jonathan Ugbal Cross River Governor, Senator Ben Ayade on Thursday presented a budget of NGN1.3 trillion tagged “Budget of Kinetic Crystallization.” The figure and name of the budget has sent the social media sphere agog with comments and CrossRiverWatch monitored some on Facebook and Twitter which are listed below. Legor Idagbo, a federal legislator
By CrossRiverWatch Admin It was Charlena Johnson in her No Cross No Crown that said that: “We shouldn’t be ordinary; we should challenge ourselves and not just think inside the box. We should dare to be different and get out of the box.” Whether or not, Governor Benedict Bengioushuye Ayade of Cross River State read