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Onyadama vs. Enyima Crisis: State Government Directs Communities To Immediately Evacuate Disputed Land

By Jonathan Ugbal; Government House Correspondent The government of Cross River State has directed the Onyadama and Enyima communities of Obubra and Yakurr local government areas to evacuate the disputed land between the two communities which led to a communal crisis recently. “Nobody from Onyadama or Enyima goes into that land until the Boundary Commission

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INVESTIGATION: How A $4 Million UN Climate Program Impoverished Cross River Communities

By CrossRiverWatch admin Things were looking up for William Obio when he decided to invest more in his logging business. For the first time in years, his nine children and three brothers were eating well, and he could support his over half-a-dozen team of machine operators, saw men, scouts, and wood carriers. Such success, rare

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Cross River Attorney General Hosts N100 Million Fund Raising For Skill Acquisition Center In His Village

By Our Reporter The State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Joe Abang, Esq has put together a fund raising meeting to raise one hundred million naira (N100, 000, 000) for an ultra modern vocational skills acquisition/development center in his community. The Attorney General who hails from Oboso, Ogoja local government area of the State

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Lagos – Calabar Railway In 2016 Budget – VP Osinbajo Assures

By CrossRiverWatch admin In continuation of a series of scheduled nationwide and sectoral town hall meetings, the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo yesterday took questions from 100 pressure groups at the Oranmiyan Hall of the Airport Hotel in Lagos, where he assured Nigerians that the Lagos – Calabar railway was safe and secured in the 2016

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FG Drags Cross River State To Court Over 260km Superhighway

By Our Correspondent In a move that will take many aback, the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) has dragged the Cross River State Government to the Federal High Court in Calabar seeking an order to stop any further construction work on the proposed 260km superhighway without carrying out an Environmental Impact Assessment

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Ochicha Slams Governor Ayade’s Silence As Many Feared Dead In Cross River Communal War

Inyali Peter, Calabar A chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC) and the governorship candidate of the party in the 2015 general election in Cross River State, Mr. Odey Ochicha has slammed Governor Ben Ayade’s silence over the communal war between Onyadama village of Obubra local government area and Nyima and Nko Community of Yakurr

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Malaria No Longer Leading Cause Of Death In Cross River – Health Commissioner

By Jonathan Ugbal The Commissioner for Health in Cross River State, Dr. Inyang Asibong says malaria is no longer the leading cause of death in the state due to efforts by the government to ensure it achieves this year’s World Malaria Day goal which seeks to end the menace of malaria for good. Asibong, who

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Ayade: A Dreamer Of Big Dreams, An Instrument In God’s Hand BY SOLOMON ASHA

Big dreams that emanates from a clear mind and heart, followed up with a lucid direction on how to go about the actualization of such dreams will always lead to huge manifestation of mind bulging infrastructural development which stunted minds can hardly fathom to be possible in this realm of existence among mortal men. The

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