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Ebola: CAF Clears Calabar For Congo Clash

by crossriverwatch admin The appeal by Congolese football officials that their September 6 match against the Super Eagles be relocated from Nigeria owing to fears concerning the outbreak of the dreaded Ebola Virus has been turned down by the Africa football ruling body, CAF. CAF in statement on its official website said it has not

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The Road To Bakassi

by crossriverwatch admin The plight of the people of Bakassi is not just the unjust fate of dispossession of their ancestral land by the whims of international politics, even the road to the community is a telling tale of a people who have been earmarked abject neglect if not extinction. These are pictures taken by

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I Will Not Stay In Politics For More Than 8 Years – Kate Henshaw

by crossriverwatch admin Cross River Nollywood super star, Kate Henshaw is gearing up for the Federal House of Representatives seat for Calabar Municipal/Odukpani presently occupied by another Amazon, Hon. Ambassador Nkoyo Toyo. In this interview with Sahara TV, she speaks on what her plans are for her political sojourn. Excerpts: Are you quitting acting for

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Abi Vice Chairman Weds In Calabar

by crossriverwatch admin The Chairman of Abi Local Government Council Hon. Edith Amadi has advised couples against third party interference in their marriages especially when the marriage is at infancy stage. Hon. Amadi gave the advice weekend in Calabar during the wedding ceremony of her Vice, Hon Catherine Francis Eremi which held at the Redeemed

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Let The North Have A Shot At The Governorship – Gershom Bassey

by crossriverwatch admin Gershom Bassey is a contender for the Government House in Cross River State in the 2015 elections. Though Bassey is from the same senatorial district as Donald Duke, former governor of the state, his chances are high following the zoning of the seat to the northern part of the state. He explains

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Cross River 2015 Guber Race And The Central Senatorial District BY AWASSAM BASSEY

by crossriverwatch admin I have stated in an earlier write-up on events unfolding towards a post-Imoke era in Cross River State that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) caucus system will confer the advantage of producing the party’s flagbearer more on Senator Liyel Imoke’s camp than the Ndoma-Egba/Jedy Agba camp. And, if the grapevine is anything

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PDP Primaries: 18 Cross River Vice Chairmen In Closed Door Meeting

by crossriverwatch admin As date for People’s Democratic Party (PDP) primaries for the 2015 General Elections is fast closing in, the ruling party in Cross River has started holding nocturnal and close door meetings in isolated locations that would attract less suspicion and puck-nosing from newsmen. One of those secret meetings was convened on Friday,

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Jonathan Campaign Largesse Pitch Cross River LG Chairmen Against Commissioner

by crossriverwatch admin As the Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria, a political group campaigning for a second term for President Jonathan holds its South South Zonal Rally in Port Harcourt today, the largesse they gave to Local Government Chairmen in Cross River for mobilization is creating ripples between the LG bosses and the Commissioner for Local

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