By Archibong Jeremiah The Cross River State Governor Senator Ben Ayade has postulated that “The Western world is the past, East Asia is the present and Africa indeed is the future. Therefore Africa holds a lot of promise to the world.” Governor Ayade made the foreshadowing in Calabar yesterday while declaring open the Carnival Calabar
By Inyali Peter The crisis rocking the Cross River State chapter of the All Progressives Congress APC over the authentic governorship candidate of the party took a new dimension yesterday as Senator Owan Enoh, was presented the flag as governorship candidate of the party by the National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole. The presentation which took
By Efa Sunday and David Nsa Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State flagged open the 2018 edition of the Calabar Carnival and Festivals in the capital city, with cultural performances from different States across Nigeria. Twenty five out of the thirty six States present at the event danced in their traditional costumes and attire
By CrossRiverWatch Admin A House of Representatives adhoc committee set up to investigate the legality and modus operandi of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel on Asset Recovery, has called for the prosecution of the chairman of the panel, Okoi Obono-Obla. The chairman of the ad hoc committee, Aliyu Pategi, who laid the report before the
By Ushang Ewa A former local government chairman of Calabar Municipal and Special Adviser to Governor Ben Ayade on Biodiversity, Mr. Edet Okon Asim, is currently in police custody for continuously defiling an underaged girl (names withheld) for a period spanning about three years. The girl is said to have been coerced into aborting two
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The General Overseer of the Bible Christian Crusade Mission (BCCM), Pastor Joseph Okoro was on Wednesday kidnapped by unknown gunmen church members say. Okoro is said to have been kidnapped at about 9:00PM after an evening fellowship in his church located at 55 Webber Street by Elijah Henshaw in Calabar South, with
By Jonathan Ugbal: Government House Correspondent Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River has blamed the failure of the over USD400 million Tinapa premier business and leisure resort project to drive the State’s economy as many had hoped on its concept which relied heavily on the federal government. Mr. Ayade stated this Wednesday in Calabar during
By Efa Sunday and Andy Mba The former Vice Chancellor of the Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Professor Akin Oyebode has said that as Nigeria heads for the general polls in the first quarter of 2019, the future of democracy in the country is on the line. Oyebode stated this while delivering the keynote address at