by crossriverwatch admin As part of effort to give back to an institution that nurtured them for their legal profession, the 1988 alumni of the Nigerian Law School, Victoria Island, Lagos, have initiated the building of an Information and Communication Technology centre for the institution. The building and equipping of the centre is expected to
by crossriverwatch admin The management of CrossRiverWatch has announced that the Cross River State dedicated news portal suffered a massive malware attack in the past forty eight hours that has disrupted operations. In a short statement from the IT Content Manager of the company, Mr. Denis Isong, the outfit apologized to the reading public and
by crossriverwatch admin The 2013 annual Calabar Festival and Carnival raked over N350 million naira into the coffers of the Cross River State government. Peter Oti, Special Adviser to the Cross River State governor on Budget Implementation and Monitoring, revealed this while answering questions from a cross-section of participants at the 2014 Cross River State
by crossriverwatch admin The Governor of Cross River State, Liyel Imoke, has said his administration will continue to expand ways the Smartgovplatform can be used to raise new revenues for the state government. The Smartgov, which is an identity management and e-payment infrastructure for state governments first deployed in Cross River State in 2011. The
by crossriverwatch admin The management of United Cement Company, UNICEM in Calabar has been asked to reinstate eight of its staff that were allegedly sacked without reason. The demand was contained in a letter dated 28th January, 2014 by the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC Cross River State Chapter with the reference number NLC/CRS/MD/UNICEM/CAL/1/14 to the
by crossriverwatch admin Last week I wrote that there is a subtle leadership crisis rocking the Cross River Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, concerning which part of the State should produce its Governorship Candidate for the 2015 elections. Until this moment nobody has refuted my story or permutations. The PDP has maintained a
by crossriverwatch admin The Linguistics and Communication Studies Students Association, LINCOMSA, University of Calabar has commenced plans to host its first ever national dinner and award night for linguistics students across Nigeria. Preparations for the dinner night were kick-started following an inauguration of a four man committee last week during the association’s first congress for
by crossriverwatch admin The names of Dr. Sandy Onor and Engineer Effiong Bassey are conspicuously missing on the list of Cross River State Executive Council members recalled by Senator Liyel Imoke, following their suspension in December 2013. Governor Imoke in an announcement on the state media, Cross River Broadcasting Corporation, CRBC, on Wednesday morning asked