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Imoke Wins Best Governor Award

by crossriverwatch admin Governor Liyel Imoke of Cross River State has emerged the winner of the Academy for Entrepreneurial Studies’ Best Goveror Award for 2013. The award which is a yearly recognition for transformational leadership was bestowed on Governor Imoke for his sterling effort at facilitating rapid infrastructural and human development in Cross River state.

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NACRISS President’s Brother Slaps Deputy in Public

by crossriverwatch admin The last has not been heard about the crisis rocking the National Association of Cross River State Students World Wide, NACRISS WW, the umbrella body of Cross River State Students. CrossRiverWatch gathered that the simmering tension between the President of the Union, Comrade Philomina Odah and her Deputy Comrade Juliet Manyo over

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Cross River State Polytechnic Commences Admission

by crossriverwatch admin Governor Liyel Imoke, Cross River State and Mrs. Stella Mbubaegbu CBE, Principal & Chief Executive, Highbury College, Portsmouth UK, have announced that the Institute of Technology & Management, ITM also known as the Cross River State Polytechnic Ugep is opening on 27 January 2014. The Institute has also commenced the sale of

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Cross River Governorship Race: Group Canvass Support For NNPC Boss

by crossriverwatch admin A group, Jedy Solidarity Movement JSM has asked the people of Cross River State to support the aspiration of the Group General Manager, Crude Oil Marketing of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC, Mr. Goddy Jedy-Agba, OFR, to succeed governor Imoke come 2015. Coordinator of the group, Mr. Utsu Atsu who made

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Imoke’s Words His Bond – Ugbo

by crossriverwatch admin Recently, the Cross River PDP state caucus met and officially zoned the governorship position of the state in 2015 to the Northern Senatorial District. This decision had precipitated reactions from a wide section of Cross Riverians and Nigeria especially the political class. When some time ago the governor of the state Senator

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Cross River NUJ Hands Cash Prizes To Press Week Competition Winners

by crossriverwatch admin The faces of journalists who won laurels at the sports competition during the just concluded Press Week of the Cross River State Council of the NUJ smiled broadly on Wednesday as they were handed their cash prizes and medals. Speaking at the ceremony which took place at the Ernest Etim Bassey Press

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Calabar Court Awards N20m Against Police For Parading Suspect in Public

by crossriverwatch admin A Federal High Court in Calabar has ordered the Nigeria Police to pay the sum of N20 million as general damages to Citizen Ottoh Obono for parading him in public before the press on allegations bordering on armed robbery. Delivering judgement in suit No. FHC/CA/CS/91/2009 between Mr. Obono and the Inspector General

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Kerosine Scarcity Persists in Calabar

by crossriverwatch admin Long queues and unrelenting hassles persist in Calabar and environs as kerosene consumers daily besiege the only two filling stations in the city that dispense the product. When CrossRiverWatch visited the NorthWest Filling station along the Marian Extension Road, on Thursday afternoon, thousands of buyers who have been queuing for several hours

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