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Bare Knuckles: Recurrent Expenditure – Is Cross River Spending Its Way To Death? BY ISO BASSEY

In one of my earlier articles, Labouring under a deadly burden, I wrote about one of Cross River State’s biggest challenges – It’s debt burden. I reflected on the fact that the State’s debt grew by 78% from 2014 to 2019 leaving it with debt of more than N230 billion. Debt is not necessarily a

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Cross River To Spend N16.395 Billion On Debts Servicing In 2015

By Sylvia Etta The sum of sixteen billion, three Hundred and Ninety-five million, Two Hundred and Ten thousand, Two Hundred and Ninety-six naira only has been earmarked in the 2015 Cross River State appropriation bill to service debts. The state governor, Senator Liyel Imoke, who gave this hint in his 2015 appropriation speech delivered before

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