By Aplefe Ojong An embarrassing and extremely suffocating level of voter apathy characterized yesterday’s Governorship and House of Assembly elections in Cross River State. Some of the Presiding Officers and Collation Officers who spoke with CrossRiverWatch, but pleaded anonymity for security reasons revealed that there was an extremely low turn out of voters in this
By CrossRiverWatch admin Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Cross River state, Mr. Odey Ochicha has congratulated the winner of the just concluded presidential polls, General Muhammadu Buhari saying that Buhari’s victory was well deserved following his resilience and sincerity in offering Nigerians quality service and leadership. Ochicha was also of the
By Ekemini Raymond The ongoing construction of the tallest tower in Calabar, embarked upon by the Catholic church in UNICAL has claimed the life of the engineer handling the project. The sad incident occurred in the early hours of today,when the late engineer was said to have climbed up to put finishing touches some work
President Goodluck Jonathan was chosen as the Vice Presidential running mate of late President Umaru Musa Yaradua in the 2007 presidential election mainly because he is from Bayelsa State in the South/South Region in accordance with the Zoning Policy of his Party –Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. It is instructive that Cross River State is one
By Archibong Jeremiah Over the weekend (Friday) in Calabar South, Calabar Cross River State, a suspected armed robber was again set ablaze. The suspected robber according to residents at Abuo street by Foster where he was burnt, was chased by the local vigilante group from Edgerly by Ballentine and finally caught at Abuo by Foster
By Jonathan Ugbal/Frank Edima/Christiana Alawa/Elijah Ugani The PDP Senatorial candidate of the northern senatorial district and first term house of representatives member for Ogoja/Yala federal constituency in the national assembly, Rose Okoji Oko was yesterday absent from her party’s campaign flag-off in Ogoja, fuelling the speculation that she is seriously ill and out of the
by crossriverwatch admin Calabar, the capital of Cross River State has become Nigeria’s first digital city following the completion of installation of its metropolitan dark fibre optic network infrastructure. This feat was accomplished via a partnership between the Cross River State Government and telecommunications giant, MTN. The infrastructure which consists of 120km of 96 core
By Our Editorial Team We, in CrossRiverWatch have every reason to thank the Creator for preserving us, all the good people of Cross River State and other Nigerians that we have successfully burst into 2015 and are full of expectation that we shall see many more years to come. We sincerely salute you our people