By Tony Okafor – Awka, Punch Newspaper Human rights lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, SAN has faulted the call by 17 Southern Governors for a constitutional conference. The Governors had said such a conference would straighten knotty problems confronting the country. But Ozekhome who spoke in Anambra State on Thursday, as a keynote speaker at the 25th
by crossriverwatch admin There was jubilation yesterday when the National Conference overwhelmingly endorsed the recommendation for additional 18 new states nation-wide including Ogoja State. The National Judicial Institute (NJI) venue of the conference erupted in celebration soon after delegates voted in favor of the recommendation of the Committee on Political Restructuring and Forms of Government;
by crossriverwatch admin The ongoing National Conference has received memoranda from members of the public for the creation of Ogoja state from the present Cross River state. Delegates from Cross River State had on Friday submitted a memorandum to the Committee on Political Restructuring and Forms of Government for the creation of Ogoja State from
by crossriverwatch admin Senator Florence Ita Giwa, one of the delegates representing Cross River state at the national conference which was inaugurated by President Jonathan on Monday has said that some of them who have been nominated as delegates to the conference were the major cause of the intractable crises the country is facing today.
by crossriverwatch admin Senator Florence Ita Giwa, General Anthony Ukpo Rtd, and Dr. Pius Tawo have emerged as the three delegates that will represent Cross River State in the national conference. A statement on Thursday night by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Pius Anyim named a total of 492 delegates including the
by crossriverwatch admin Leaders of Southern Nigeria comprising the south-south, south east and south west met on Monday in Calabar the Cross River State capital and resolved to speak with one voice at the National Conference coming up in March 2014. The leaders in their various remarks at the summit convened by Governors Olusegun Mimiko,
by crossriverwatch admin Col. Tony Nyiam Rtd, a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee who was widely reported to have resigned from the committee after his outburst with the Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, at the Benin City interactive parley of the committee has denied the reports saying he is still a member of
by crossriverwatch admin Senator Liyel Imoke, the Cross River State governor has again demanded for compensation in perpetuity for the ceding of Bakassi Peninsula by Nigeria to Cameroon in compliance with the International Court of Justice, ICJ ruling at the Hague. This demand is contained in his position paper presented to the Presidential Committee on