The Cross River State of Nigeria suffered two significant losses in 2004 and 2010, respectively. The first was the Bakassi peninsula’s loss and then lost 76 oil wells to Akwa Ibom. These losses were a loss of the bungling of the two cases by the governments at the Federal and State levels. The loss of
By Jonathan Ugbal More details are emerging from the defection of Governor Ben Ayade from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) last week thursday. Details emerging now show that Mr. Ayade may have also been ambushed in the same manner his defection shocked some of his aides and political allies.
By Ade Adesomoju, Premium Times The anti-corruption agency has dropped the charges of school result falsification and forgery it levelled against the ex-presidential aide in 2019. The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has amended the corruption and certificate forgery charges it filed against an ex-presidential aide, Okoi Obono-Obla. The amendment, coming
By Patrick Obia As reported by The Nation Newspaper, the Chairman of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property (SPIP) Chief Okoi Obono-Obla has explained why his agency’s offices in Abuja are closed by Policemen. Although the SPIP’s offices were reportedly sealed from last Saturday evening as a curtain raiser to
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The House of Representatives has written to the Federal Government, demanding it to act on the House resolution calling for the sack and investigation of the Chairman, Special Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property (SIP) and Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Prosecution, Mr. Okoi Obono-Obla. The letter to