By Our Correspondent The Cross River State Ministry of Works has commenced the implementation of the directive of the state governor, Senator Ben Ayade that every road in Calabar should be made pothole free. Ayade had given the ministry a 7-day ultimatum to fix all potholes identified in the 120 internal roads in the Calabar
By Archibong Jeremiah A stalwart of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Cross River State and a former member of the State House of Assembly, Hon. Ernest Eki has scored the Senator Ben Ayade led administration ‘zero percent’ and called on the governor to increase the velocity of the pace of development of the State.
Traveling recently on transit through Accra airport, gave me hope Africa would get it right someday. One thing I have come to learn over time is that the society has a way of shaping her peoples degree of integrity. Arriving Accra, I needed to make a call, I found a young boy selling recharge cards,
By Ogar Monday The 2015 United Nations International Volunteer Day held in Calabar to celebrate and propagate the contributions of volunteers in the development of the nation. In one of the celebrations held at the Central Bank of Nigeria, South-South Entrepreneurial Development Center by CUSO in collaboration with Lead, Inspire and Transform (LIT), Project Nigeria
By CrossRiverWatch admin He died on Monday at the age of 86 according to family sources. Born in Oron, Akwa Ibom State, in 1929, Mr. Toyo, a professor of Economics, had his early education in Oron, Lagos and Calabar. He passed the Cambridge School Certificate in 1945 in Grade one and was exempted from London
By Our Correspondent Bakor Medical Center and St. Luke’s Hospital Consortium, the two concessionaires who took over the management of some general hospital in Cross River State have said that the facilities in the privatized General Hospitals in Bekwarra and Obudu local government areas were abandoned for over ten years before the eventual facelift that
By CrossRiverWatch admin The member representing Obudu/Bekwara/Obanlikwu Federal Constituency, Hon. Legor Idagbo has been decorated as Patron of Likambende Club of Obudu and also given an award for Effective Representation of his Federal Constituency. The award which was presented to Hon. Idagbo by a delegation of the leadership of the organization in his office at
By Our Correspondent For the goodness of God in the life of the National Vice Chairman, South-South, of the All Progressive Congress, APC Mr. Hilliard Eta, members of the party in his Ward (Ward 5, Calabar Municipality) have organized a thanksgiving service in his honor. The service which held Sunday morning at the St. Charles