By News Agency of Nigeria Former Governor of Cross River State, Donald Duke has described Leader Olumba Olumba Obu (OOO) of the Brotherhood Cross and Star as an exemplary leader with good leadership qualities. Duke disclosed this in Calabar while presenting a key note address at the maiden edition of the Public Lecture held in
Not every Cross Riverian will agree that we have had better leaders before the Governor Ben Ayade dispensation; but most people from Cross River or who have lived in Cross River since the onset of the Fourth Republic will agree that the State has seen more visionary leadership than the joke that currently prevails. Different
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Donald Duke was a former Governor of Cross River State between 1999 and 2007, and the presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party in the 2019 election. In this interview with MUDIAGA AFFE and MOBOLA SADIQ, the 58-year-old law graduate of the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria talks about his foray into politics
By Patrick Obia A former Attorney General and commissioner of justice of Cross River State, Attah Ochinke, has said that those cutting down trees planted by the government for no reason should be brought to book and made to pay heavily. The lawyer made this known on his Facebook handle on Thursday where he implored
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Donald Duke, former Governor of Cross River State, has asked the Federal Government to compel banks to reduce interest rates to make credit available and affordable for small businesses. Duke made the call at the 5th anniversary of the Political Forum G50 with the theme, ‘blueprint for sustainable economic development’, which was
By Agency Report The lawmaker representing Etung State Constituency in the Cross River State House of Assembly, Barrister Chris Njah Mbu-Ogar has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to implement the Supreme Court verdict which mandates the Federal Government to in perpetuity, pay the State NGN15 billion yearly as compensation for loosing the Bakassi Peninsula to
“In the long history of the world; only a few generations have been given the role of defending freedom, in its hour of maximum danger, I do not shrink from that responsibility; I welcome it” – J.F. Kennedy The stakes are really high in Cross River State. Yet, make no mistake about her, Cross River
For those interested in politics for the passion of it’s fundamental value to society’s growth and development, it’s potentials to enrich and improve the quality of the lives we and our people live, this is a time to speak up and act. A time to fashion out workable solutions to the problems created over a