By Efa Sunday, Government House Correspondent The Cross River State Governor, Senator Ben Ayade has directed that the recent allocation of Cocoa farms undertaken by the State Cocoa Allocation Committee be cancelled. A statement in Calabar by the Governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Christian Ita, quoted Professor Ayade instructing that the cancellation takes effect immediately.
By Efa Sunday The Cross River State premier private University, Arthur Jarvis, today matriculated Seventy-One (71) students into the faculty of Natural and Applied Science, One hundred and Ninety (119) into Faculty of Humanities, Management and Social Science, Forty-Eight (48) into Basic Medical Science and Thirty-Seven (37) students into the Faculty of Law. Speaking while
By David Nsa In line with the directive of the Executive Governor of Cross River State, Sen. Ben Ayade asking all his appointees to give their hand over note on or before May 29 2019. The Commissioner for Health Dr. Inyang Asibong has handed over to the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health Dr. Joseph Bassey.
In the past 24 hours, the social media have been inundated with reports about a cold war brewing between Cross River State Governor, Sen. Ben Ayade and a front line media activist and State Chairman of the AAC, Mr. Agba Jalingo over the later critical Facebook post about some activities of the Governor. Agba who
Now, let me make it clear that Ayade as Governor of Cross River State, has all it takes to arrest me and humiliate me and prosecute me and even put me in jail. I do not have any doubt about that in my mind. After all, he is Governor. Having said that, I also want
The Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) has taken a step that if followed through, will from June 1, 2019; make it very difficult for Governors to exert control over the utilization of LG allocations, as presently obtains. The Joint Allocation Accounts Committee (JAAC), where LG funds are paid into will now only exist for the
By David Nsa and Philip Agba The General Manager of Sparkling 92.3 FM Calabar, Mr. Effiong Nyong has called on the Cross River State Government to create an enabling environment for Journalists to carry out their constitutional obligation. Mr. Nyong gave the charge in a press briefing as part of activities to mark the stations
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The AAC State Chairman had alleged in an opinion article that about N4billion Naira was withdrawn from the State and Local government joint accounts, just before the last elections, to fund what the governor called ‘quick win projects’ in the 18 LGAs and that the memo never made it to exco to