By Sylvia Akpan, Government House Correspondent The Executive Governor of Cross River State, Senator Bassey Edet Otu has ordered the immediate suspension of revenue collections payable in all revenue points in Calabar Municipality. This was contained in a press release signed by Mrs. Eke E. Ani, Head of Local Government Administration dated 10th October, 2023.
By Our Reporters Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, monitoring the presidential and national assembly polls made some arrests of suspected vote buyers. One All Progressives Congress (APC) House of Assembly candidate in Cross River State was among those arrested. Mr. Stanley Nsemo, vying to represent Calabar Municipality in the State Assembly
By CrossRiverWatch Admin CrossRiverWatch Civic Space Editor, Jonathan Ugbal was on Wednesday attacked by agents of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP in Calabar Municipality while covering a protest by youths of the Ikot Abasi Obori community. He was beaten by agents of the PDP outside a campaign office used by two of the party’s candidates –
By Sylvia Akpan Listen To The Report A yet-to-be-identified transport enforcement team of the Cross River State Government has been caught on tape manhandling a taxi driver. The incident according to a video shared by News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, Correspondent, George Odok on Facebook happened along Ndidem Usang Iso Road, directly opposite the Calabar
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Listen To The Report A former employee of the Punch Newspaper has made a public appeal asking Hon. Eta Mbora, Member Representing Calabar/Odukpani Federal Constituency to pay a debt he owed him since October of 2013. Mr. Nseobong Brown who said the debt was incurred while Mbora was still the Chairman of
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Hon. Eta Mbora, member representing Calabar Municipality/Odukpani Constituency in the House of Representatives has received commendations and goodwill from his constituents. The homage was after he recently attracted another set of projects to his people. The projects include electricity transformers, solar powered boreholes and several blocks of classrooms. The federal lawmaker disclosed
By Archibong Jeremiah, Sylvia Akpan and Theresa Mba Cross River State Government has not been able to successfully implement its Law No. 13, 2015 – Tax Exemption (of Low Income Earners) Law, which was conceived to give ministration to “the poor,” according to Governor Ben Ayade. With his (Ayade) dramatic cries (on camera) for “the
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Stakeholders in Calabar Municipality/Odukpani constituency have applauded their member at the House of Representatives, Ntufam Eta Mbora for “effective representation at the lower chamber”. The member representing Calabar Municipality in the State House of Assembly, Ntufam Efa Esua said “he has demonstrated without doubt that the interest and well-being of the electorate