By Our Correspondent A former Nigerian ambassador to Ethiopia and Member of the immediate past House of Representatives, Ambassador Nkoyo Toyo has been appointed Lead Special Advisor to Governor Ben Ayade on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A statement by the Special Assistant on Media and Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr Christian Ita, in
By Our Correspondent As part of activities to ensure that the 37 queens of the 2015 Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria (MBGN) are fully acclimatized, the Cross River State Government, yesterday organised a cocktail dinner, in which the girls were serenaded to scintillating mixture of drinks, music and dance. The event which took place at
By Our Correspondent The Cross River State Commercial Transport Regulatory Agency (CTRA) has accused the various transport unions which are Franchisees of government of being responsible for the chaos and ‘insanity’ in the transport sector of the State. The franchisees include the Association of Urban Taxi (AUT), Calabar Urban Taxi (CUT), JOFINO, Eburutu Lines and
By Our Correspondent No fewer than one Thousand inhabitants of Adiabo Community in Odukpani Local government Area of Cross River State, where the Obong of Calabar comes from have been dewormed by the medical and health Care group of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). The intervention by the NYSC group was part of their
A short piece published in ThisDay newspaper today with the caption: “How Ayade Stings Civil Servants”, is a classic in falsehood. Cross River State civil servants have never had it so good as they do under the administration of Governor Ben Ayade. For instance, while many states with even bigger allocation from the federation account
By Our Correspondent Speaker of the Cross River State House of Assembly, CRSHA, Hon. John Gaul Lebo has said that the Assembly is set to domesticate the Administration of Justice Sector Reform Act into the laws of the state. The Act is a Law of the National Assembly enacted in May 2015 by the Jonathan
By CrossRiverWatch admin A man who died in the Nigerian city of Calabar did not have Ebola, the World Health Organization said on Friday, after 10 people were quarantined as a precaution. Cory Couillard, from the WHO African Region, told AFP in an email that the “laboratory investigation for EVD (Ebola Virus Disease) and Lassa
Creative and entertainment industry in Nigeria has become a key driver of growth, analysts have posited. The creative economy – which includes, the film industry, the music industry, the culture industry, visual arts industry, the fashion industry and many others – is not only one of the most rapidly growing sectors of the world economy,