By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Speaker of the Cross River State House of Assembly Honorable John Gaul Lebo has expressed rude shock over the recent demise of the Chief Judge of the State Justice Okoi Ikpi Itam. Lebo in a statement issued Sunday, regretted that the erudite justice could not live long enough to see his
By Jonathan Ugbal The Chairman of the Cross River Ports Authority, Senator Florence Ita-Giwa says the strides made by Cross River Governor, Senator Ben Ayade in infrastructure will transform the state economically. Giwa stated this in an interview last weekend while on an inspection tour of several projects in Calabar, the Cross River State capital
By Jonathan Ugbal: Government House Correspondent Cross River Governor, Senator Ben Ayade will today swear in Justice Michael Edem as the acting Chief Judge of Cross River State. Justice Edem’s appointment is pursuant to Section 271, sub-section 4 and 6 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria a statement issued by the
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Cross River State came third behind Edo and Borno states with the highest air fares in February 2017, Transport Fare Watch statistics from the National Bureau of Statistics show. The averaged air fare paid was NGN35,758, which makes it NGN130 shy of Borno’s NGN35,878 and NGN4,242 shy of that of Edo state
By Jonathan Ugbal The Federal Government Thursday in Calabar said the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) on the proposed 260km Superhighway presented by Cross River State government failed to meet international standards. The Minister of State for Environment, Alhaji Ibrahim Jibrin disclosed this at a stakeholders meeting organized by the ministry in Calabar and accused the
By Jonathan Ugbal The organised labor in Cross River State Wednesday issued a 21 day ultimatum to the federal government on the release and subsequent approval of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report on the signature projects of the Governor Ben Ayade led government. The organised labor, an umbrella for the Nigeria Labour Congress
By Jonathan Ugbal The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Cross River State has described the release of elections timetable by the Cross River State Independent Electoral Commission (CROSIEC) as a ploy to divert attention and save face from an “embarrassing judgment.” In a statement issued by the State Publicity Secretary, Mens Ikpeme Tuesday in Calabar,
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Cross River State Government says it has drafted serving senior and retired Basketball players to train students registered to participate in the 19th edition of the Nestle Milo Secondary School Basketball Championship. No fewer than 30 schools are to take part in the competition whose preliminaries is holding at the U.J