By Ogar Monday The Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council, PEBEC, a Federal Government Agency responsible for facilitating the ease of doing business in Nigeria, has listed Cross River as one of the worst States in Nigeria to do business. In the report made publicly available recently, Cross River State ranked 33 out of 37, with
By Ogar Monday On October 26, 2022, Nigeria’s financial regulatory agency, the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, announced that it intends to withdraw and redesign the country’s N200, N500, and N1000 notes. Godwin Emefiele, the CBN Governor, revealed that the redesign and recall of the old note was, amongst other things, an effort to mop
By Ogar Monday The All Progressive Congress has announced the postponement of its presidential rally billed to hold on Sunday 29th January, 2022, in Calabar, the Cross River State capital. Erasmus Ekpang, the Party’s Publicity Secretary in the state in a statement made available to CrossRiverWatch said the party in the state will now prepare
By Victoria Effiong Unless an urgent action is taken, the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) 500 unit prototype hostel at Cross River State University (UNICROSS) could soon become a disaster. It is a death trap for students living in it. The hostel, awarded in December 2004, was abandoned by Directed Services Limited, a local firm that
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Cross River born legal practitioner, George Abang Ekpungu resumed today as the Secretary of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Ekpungu was appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari in June this year in line with the EFCC act and was confirmed by the Senate despite a petition allegedly masterminded by allies of
By Archibong Jeremiah CrossRiverWatch Editor-In-Chief and rights activist, Citizen Agba Jalingo has been arrested by the Cross River State command of the Nigerian Police Force over a fake petition that he is an arms dealer. He is currently been questioned at the State Criminal Investigation Department (CIID) of the Cross River Police Command. The Commissioner
By Archibong Jeremiah As Nigerians and the world tries to make sense of the Twitter Nigeria ban with some for and against the decision of the General Muhammadu Buhari (retired) administration. From the web of critical views that the issue has generated so far, is that of the Cross River State Chapter Chairman of Nigeria
By Jonathan Ugbal Governor Benedict Ayade has explained his reason for leaving the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC). He took to his verified Facebook page to explain that it was “borne out of the need to bring Cross River State in sync with the policies and programs of the federal