by crossriverwatch admin The role of the traditional birth attendants in Cross River State health care delivery is significant that government is not planning to banish them soon CrossRiverWatch can authoritatively report. The position of the government was made known during a press briefing in Calabar by the Special Adviser to Governor Liyel Imoke on
by crossriverwatch admin The Nigerian civil service which was painstakingly built since 1934 took the General Ibrahim Babangida administration only eight years to destroy through the Structural Adjustment Program which lasted from 1986 to 1994. Senator Liyel Imoke, the Cross River State governor gave this reminder in Calabar on Monday while making a keynote speech
by crossriverwatch admin The United Cement Company of Nigeria over the weekend unveiled a solar-powered borehole constructed at the cost of N2.6m for Akwa Ikot Effanga community in Akpabuyo Local Government Area of Cross River State. The Managing Director of UniCem, Mr. Olivier Lenoir, said the project was part of the company’s corporate social responsibility
by crossriverwatch admin CrossRiverWatch has reliably gathered that the Cross River State Command of the Nigeria Police is under undue pressure from powerful sources in the State Government to abandon the ongoing certificate forgery investigation against the State Commissioner for Information, Chief. Akin Rickett. The State Criminal Investigation Department SCID, Diamond Hill had in March,
by crossriverwatch admin Five staff of the Cross River State Internal Revenue Service have been arrested for allegedly cloning official receipts of the agency with which they gave to politicians to obtain tax clearance certificates to contest the 2013 local government elections in the state. Mr. Emmanuel Chris Ogar, the Chairman of the State Internal
by crossriverwatch admin The era when Cross River was referred to as a civil service state is over as government has put in place necessary machinery to drive its economy and create wealth. Governor Liyel Imoke disclosed this during a welcome cocktail preceding the 2013 edition of the Africa CEO Roundtable and Conference on Corporate
by crossriverwatch admin With an annual double digit growth rate of 30%, Nigeria’s economy ranks amongst the fastest growing in the world and that accounts for government’s aim of attaining a 4,000 Dollars Gross Domestic Product, GDP in the next ten years. President Goodluck Jonathan made this declaration on today in Calabar while performing the
by crossriverwatch admin Hon. Uduak Eyo Akiba, Chief Whip of the Cross River State House of Assembly who represents Calabar Municipality state constituency has denied assaulting a female police corporal at the weekend. In a telephone chat with CrossRiverWatch yesterday before absconding abroad, Hon Akiba said it was not true that she punched and slapped