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Akpama: Why Legor Should Return To NASS In 2023

By CrossRiverWatch Admin A former Chairman of the Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC) in Cross River State, Mr. Goddie Akpama, has advanced reasons why the member representing Bekwarra/Obudu/Obanliku federal constituency in the House of Representatives, Legor Idagbo, should be supported for a third term in office. Among other reasons Akpama cited Legor’s loyalty, sacrifices and

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Akpama Faults Ayade’s Defence Against Jalingo

By CrossRiverWatch Admin Former governorship candidate of Peoples Progressive Alliance (PPA), Goddie Akpama, has faulted Governor Ben Ayade’s claim that the detention of the online publisher of CrossRiverWatch, Mr. Agba Jalingo, is by the Federal Government and not him. Reacting to the two video clips by Ayade on Jalingo’s detention, Akpama stated yesterday, “I have

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Ayade’s Tongue Twister BY GODDIE AKPAMA

For us in Cross River, it is yet another fiscal year, another budget and another tongue twisting confusion. Again as usual, the people would spend more time taking about, and trying to analyze the strange appellation of budget proposal presented to the House of Assembly. Definitely, the analyses would not dwell on its grave implications

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Jalingo’s Persecution: When It Rains, It Doesn’t Rain On One Man’s Roof BY GODDIE AKPAMA

The unlawful arrest and persecution of Agba Jalingo, Editor-in-Chief/Publisher of CrossRiverWatch for trying to hold the Cross River State Government accountable, is one that must be condemned by all well meaning citizens, we must all rise now to stand against it. In no democracy anywhere in the world is taking one’s Government to task a

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OBUDU: Living By The River Side And Washing Our Hands With Spittle BY GODDIE AKPAMA

For a mass population of the Obudu, people, with unarguably the most politically sophisticated elite class in Cross River State, the Ayade governorship has presented them with an incomprehensible paradox. While his emergence as the first democratically elected governor of northern Cross River State extraction has enhanced their claim to being the drivers of Northern

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Court Adjourns To May 30 As Absence Of Prosecution Counsel Stalls Ifere Paul’s Trial

By Elijah Ugani A Magistrate court sitting in Calabar on Tuesday and presided over by Magistrate Rita Mashael has adjourned to May 30, 2018 its ruling on an application by the counsel to Mr. Ifere Paul to strike out the case brought before it by the Commissioner of Police. The Police had charged Mr. Ifere

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