By CrossRiverWatch admin Justice O. A. Adeniyi has emerged as the new Chairman of the Cross River State National and State Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal, sitting in Calabar. This followed last week’s application by the counsel for the Peoples Democratic Party respondents, Mr. Paul Erokoro, that the erstwhile chairman, Justice C. Awubra, was constitutionally not
By Archibong Jeremiah The Cross River State Chairman of Nigeria Labor Congress, NLC, Comrade John Ushie has vowed that the state branch of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT and Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE will be sanctioned for pulling out of the suspended NLC industrial action in the State. The State NLC
By Lauretta Akpan Lafarge Africa Plc notified The Nigerian Stock Exchange that Nigerian Cement Holdings B.V. (NCH), a 50% affiliate of Lafarge Africa Plc, has completed the acquisition of the second and final tranche of 15% of equity interest of Flour Mills of Nigeria Cement Industries in UNICEM. The company in March acquired first 15%
By Sylvia Ettah The Chief Medical Director, CMD of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, UCTH, Dr. Paul Agan has told CrossRiverWatch that the rumor about Ebola scare in the hospital is not true and should be disregarded by the public. Dr. Agan who is currently attending an event in Canada told our correspondent on
By Our Correspondent The Speaker of Cross River State House of Assembly, Hon. John Gaul Lebo has urged the Assembly staff to dissociate themselves from the current NLC strike in the state. In a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Azogor Ideba and made available to CrossRiverWatch, Hon. John Gaul Lebo equally asks all
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also called Global Goals are a proposed set of targets relating to future international development. They are to replace the Millennium Development Goals once those expire at the end of 2015. The SDGs were first formally discussed at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development held in Rio de Janeiro
By Ushang Ewa Thieves in the space of one week broke into the premises of two government owned media outfits in the state carting away power transmission cables leading to the crippling of activities in the two corporations. The media outfits affected are the state owned broadcasting and print media outfits, Cross River Broadcasting Corporation
By Archibong Jeremiah, House Of Assembly Correspondent Hon. Elucate Ekom Okora, Chairman Cross River State House of Assembly Committee on Judiciary, Public Service Matters, Public Petitions and Conflict Resolution has disclosed to CrossRiverWatch that his committee is currently investigating a petition against the State Surveyor General, Surveyor Eyo Oku. Elucate made this known to our