PREAMBLE This paper is provoked by the sad discovery that a vast majority of Cross Riverians appear to have lost faith and or given up on the fact that, we are an oil-bearing state with all the potential to become an oil-producing state, if and when all the politics/issues holding us captive are addressed. Having
By Jonathan Ugbal The Cross River State Government has called on Cross Riverians to key into the ongoing reformations in the Oil and Gas sector to ensure the state benefits from it. The federal government had announced plans to build two modular refinery in each of the 36 states of the federation. And, the Special
By CrossRiverWatch admin Maurice Ekong, the Special Adviser Petroleum Resources to Cross River Governor, Professor Ben Ayade has announced the availability in commercial quantity, crude oil reserves in the northern part of the state. Ekong disclosed this recently in an exclusive interview with CrossRiverWatch in his office where he also disclosed that the state Government
This write up was prompted as a comment to a post from one of my Facebook friends this morning to the effect that Cross River State is not an oil producing state. Of a truth, Cross River State is not an oil producing state but that doesn’t mean that the state is not an oil