By Jonathan Ugbal: Government House Correspondent Cross River Governor, Senator Ben Ayade will today embark on a 6 day tour of Ikom, Obanliku, Bekwarra, Yala, Ogoja, and Obudu local government areas to perform groundbreaking ceremonies and Commissioning of projects. A released signed by his spokesperson, Mr. Christian Ita on Tuesday stated that the governor will
By Jonathan Ugbal: Government House Correspondent Cross River Governor, Senator Ben Ayade failed to present the 2017 appropriation bill to the House of Assembly Friday morning as earlier reported by CrossRiverWatch. The protocol unit had Thursday evening sent messages that governor Ayade will Friday morning at about 7:30 AM present the budget to the 25
By Jonathan Ugbal; Government House Correspondent A South Korean firm, Kingline Integrated Power Development Limited Tuesday, approached the Cross River State government for land acquisition to build a 550 MegaWatts, MW gas fired power plant in the state. This comes on the heels of several Memorandum of Understandings and Expression of Interest from several companies
By CrossRiverWatch admin In a renewed drive to fully commercialise agriculture and to better support crop production, aqua –culture and accelerated rural development, President Buhari announced yesterday that the federal government has already commenced work on all the twelve River Basin Authorities in the country including the Cross River Basin Authority. The twelves basins include:
By Inyali Peter The Cross River government has should partner the federal government to fix the federal roads in the state as they have become impassable says Odey Ochicha, the gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the 2015 general elections in a statement issued Friday, in Calabar. Ochicha who lamented a situation where
By Ushang Ewa It is different strokes for different folks who ply or have activities in the surrounding area of the Odukpani junction axis of the Calabar-Itu-Ikot Ekpene highway following minor rehabilitation works. The minor rehabilitation, CrossRiverWatch gathered from sources on ground was carried out by Sermatech construction company on Thursday, August 13, 2015 with
By Jonathan Ugbal, Government House Correspondent The signature projects of the Cross River State governor, Senator Benedict Ayade’s administration have been received with mixed feelings across the socio-political and socio-economic divides in the state with the issue of funding dominating every discourse regarding the projects. The Special Assistant to the governor on Technical Affairs, Eric
By Archibong Jeremiah The governor of Cross River State, Senator Ben Ayade has told Cross Riverians, Nigerians that the dualization of the Calabar-Ikom-Ogoja-Obudu ranch resort highway which he listed among his signature projects will not be constructed with the state government allocation. The governor spoke while giving a remark at the inaugural ball which held