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BUDGET EXCLUSIVE: Special Adviser Technical Office To Spend N334,693,780,685.32 In 2019, Got N429,193,780,685.32 In 2018

By CrossRiverWatch Admin Our newsroom can exclusively report that the office of the Special Adviser Technical (COS) according to the 2019 budget of Cross River State is expected to spend N334,693,780,685.32. In 2018 N429,193,780,685.32 was approved and spent by the office. Dualization of Calabar-Odukpani inclusive of Odukpani-Spagheti flyover in 2018 cost the State N18,000,000,000.00 while

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Crisis Looms As Cross River Assembly Moves To Outlaw Land Use Act

By CrossRiverWatch Admin A crisis appears on the horizon as the Cross River House of Assembly is about beginning work on a bill seeking the establishment of Land Use and Allocation Management Commission (LUAC) to do away with the Land Use Act 1978 which it considers defective. Also, the legislative chamber is to review the

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Stop Acting Like Appendages Of The State Government, Release Jalingo Now – Policy Alert To Police

By CrossRiverWatch Admin Policy Alert has called on the Nigerian Police to immediately release Agba Jalingo, a journalist and transparency activist who was arrested last week by the Police on the alleged orders of the Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade, for asking questions on the spending of N500m of a State owned microfinance bank.

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Release Publisher Of CrossRiverWatch Immediately – Rule Of Law And Accountability Advocacy Centre To Police

By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Centre (RULAAC) has called on the Police to immediately release Agba Jalingo, publisher of CrossRiverWatch. According to the NGO, “From 22 to 30 August, it is 8 days since operatives allegedly of Intelligence Response Team (IRT) seized Mr. Agba Jalingo, Editor in Chief and Publisher

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There Are Plans To Cage The Media In Cross River State – ACROJ Alleges

By Patrick Obia The Chairman, Association of Cross River Online Journalists (ACROJ) Comrade Darlington Edem, has alleged that there are plans by the Government of Cross River State to gage the media in the State, following the recent arrest and detention of four Journalists in Calabar. Mr. Darlington stated this while speaking as a guest

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BREAKING: Maurice Effiwatt Appointed By Buhari To NDDC Board

By CrossRiverWatch Admin President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a 16-man new board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, with Dr. Pius Odubu from Edo State as the Chairman. A statement signed by the Permanent Secretary (General Services Office), office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Olusegun Adekunle, on behalf of the SGF,

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Governor Ayade Punishing My Husband For Exposing Corruption In His Government – Mrs. Jalingo

By CrossRiverWatch Admin  Jalingo was arrested on Thursday in Lagos and taken to Calabar, capital of Cross River State, by officers of the Nigeria Police allegedly on the request of the governor. Wife of the publisher of CrossRiverWatch, Agba Jalingo, Violet, has said that the state governor, Ben Ayade, was persecuting her husband for exposing

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DPR Seals Over 20 Filling Stations In Cross River State

By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) have sealed off over 20 filling stations in the Central and Northern parts of Cross River State. The agency says it was acting on special information by some of its agents that some petroleum product marketers in the Central and Northern parts of the State were

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