As it is with Nigerian politicians; and in the realm of governance, it has always been commonplace to promise in poetry and deliver in prose. Promises are often mere rhetoric, lost in the labyrinth of political discourse. However, the recent actions of the Cross River State governor, Senator Prince Bassey Edet Otu, mark a radical
Exactly 20 years (2003) this year, our paths, by sheer dint of fate, crossed. It was the birth of Nigeria’s first tabloid, The Sun newspaper. As crew members on the Sunday desk, overseen by one of the icons of the newspaper subsector of the media industry, the Indomitable Louis Odion, Christian and I crossed paths,
By Ogar Monday The Cross River State chapter of the Inter-party Advisory Council, IPAC, and the State Government are at loggerheads over the validity or not of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS sent to the State. IPAC alleged that the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, in the State is working towards swaying the elections towards
By Archibong Jeremiah Listen To The Report The Cross River State Governor, Sen. Ben Ayade has appointed Mr. Francis Odachi Ekpo as Director-General of the Due Process and Price Intelligence Bureau. The appointment that is with immediate effect was announced through a press release by the Deputy Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Linus
By Ushang Ewa An educationist and former Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Adamawa, Bayelsa and Ebonyi States, Chief Joseph Iyambe Cyril Igbe has passed on at the age of 86. A native of Nkim in Ogoja Local Government Area, Mr. Igbe, fondly referred to as Chief JIC Igbe, passed away
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Governor Benedict Ayade of Cross River State has announced 98 new appointments including a Senior Special Assistant on Abuja legal matters, days leading to the February 26, 2022, legislative by-elections in Cross River State. The list was made public on Tuesday afternoon, in a signed press statement by his deputy spokesman, Linus
This is a reply to “Why The North Of Nigeria Should Not Be Deceived By My Governor BY SEN. JARIGBE AGOM“. Over time, the media unit of the Governor’s Office has refused to glorify Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe’s inane comments about Governor Ben Ayade, for the simple reason that they are every so often pedestrian, hollow
He came as a leader whose fate was inextricably intertwined with the displaced and dispossessed people of Bakassi. At every forum, Governor Ben Ayade wrenched quite a volume of tears enough to form a lake or drown a community, while speaking about the level of crass insensitivity on the part of the federal authorities who orchestrated