by crossriverwatch admin As the Northern Caucus of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) prepares for the Saturday, September 6, 2014 screening of about 22 governorship aspirants from the northern senatorial district of the state, with each of them expected to give three hundred thousand (300,000) naira screening fee, competent sources informed CrossRiverWatch that the powers
by crossriverwatch admin The Governorship ambition of the last man among the ‘three wise men’ of Cross River State, Chief Gershom Bassey might have been permanently put on hold until after the eight years tenure of the governor that will emerge from the northern senatorial district of the state. Sources close to CrossRiverWatch revealed that
by crossriverwatch admin President Goodluck Jonathan today said in Calabar that a Memorandum of Understanding has been signed for the construction of a railway line from Lagos to Calabar. The President promised that the rail line will be extended to the Obudu Ranch Resort. The President was speaking at the ground breaking ceremony of the
by crossriverwatch admin Information reaching CrossRiverWatch say 18 out of the 25 members of the Cross River State House of Assembly have asked the Speaker of the House Hon. Larry Odey to resign or face impeachment. CrossRiverWatch gathered that the crises started after the approval of the resolution that the governor sent to the House
by crossriverwatch admin The police in Calabar have asked the wife of a Vehicle Inspection Officer, VIO who disappeared on his way to work on the 15th of May, 2014 to buy an ‘investigation tracking machine’ worth N450,000 for the police to facilitate their investigation into the disappearance of her husband. CrossRiverWatch had in May,
by crossriverwatch admin Those of us who push for certain changes in our political landscape do so because we want to see a prosperous, properly governed, socially responsible citizenry, and politically responsive elites who take their jobs seriously. Whilst on Saturday I was glued to my television set watching the Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN)
by crossriverwatch admin As criticisms continue to trail the approval by the Cross River State House of Assembly for the government to raise a N40b Bond, the governor has explained that the Bond is not to raise fresh loans but to renegotiate the existing debt and spread the repayment period over a reasonable time and
by crossriverwatch admin One of the chieftains of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Hon. Effiong Ekarika has finally decamped to the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC after months of speculations. Hon. Ekarika, who until his decamping was one of the ruling party’s grass roots mobilizer in Calabar, organized a cross over ceremony on Saturday