By CrossRiverWatch admin Over one hundred retirees in Calabar, the Cross River State Capital are demanding for the immediate payment of their gratuity which has not been paid for the past five years. The retirees in a peaceful protest to the governor’s office carried placards with inscriptions like; we are demanding for the right payment
By CrossRiverWatch admin Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has again promised that the Calabar garment factory, one of his signature projects will be commissioned by the 1st of April, 2016. The garment factory which was earlier scheduled to be commissioned within the first hundred days in office of Ayade’s administration has seen delays
By Jonathan Ugbal; Government House Correspondent Cross River governor, Ben Ayade has commence talks with the United Kingdom on partnership in requisite skill training and investments in a bid to raise the required capacity needed to construct an alternative economy for the state. Ayade disclosed this in an interview at the site of the Cross
By Our Correspondent The Head of Service of Cross River State, Barrister Ekpenyong Henshaw, has charged workers in the state civil service to reciprocate Governor Ben Ayade’s gesture of prompt payment of salaries through increased productivity and strict compliance with the civil service code. Henshaw who made the charge during a chat with newsmen described
By CrossRiverWatch admin The homes of the immediate past Commissioner representing Cross River State in the board of the Niger Delta Development Authority (NDDC) Paul Adah and former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Venatius Ikem were last night attacked by unknown gunmen who fired shots CrossRiverWatch can authoritatively report. Paul Adah
By CrossRiverWatch admin The performance of the current Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Cross River State Council, Pastor Ndoma Akpet again came under knocks, but this time from the National Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ). Pastor Akpet is the current chairman of NUJ, Cross River State who is seeking re-election for another term
INTRODUCTION Democracy is a government of the people; especially: rule of the majority. Youth make up more than 50% of the total population in Cross River State. From this it is clear that youths form an important demographic in the democratic structure of the state. Can there then be a credible representative democracy in the
