By Jonathan Ugbal; Government House Correspondent Cross River State governor Benedict Ayade has approved the appointment of Dr. Ukam Edodi as the new Chairman of the State Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The appointment comes less than a month after the resignation of the former Chairman, Dr. Peter Oti whom CrossRiverWatch reported recently to be having
By Ogar Monday/Oto-Bong Clement Mountain Cinema Nigeria, a theater and movie production company based in Calabar, the Cross River State capital has staged a play in honor of a missionary and change agent Mary Mitchell Slessor in Okoyong, Odukpani Local Government Area. The play which depicts the life and conditions of twins in pre-Slessor’s Okoyong,
By Archibong Jeremiah The Special Adviser (SA) to the Cross River State Governor, Senator Ben Ayade on Job Placement, Mr. Ejemot Jesse has disclosed to CrossRiverWatch that 60% of Cross River youths are not employed. The SA who recently made the disclosure in an interview with our reporter maintained that the percentage according to the
By CrossRiverWatch admin Governor of Cross River State, Senator Ben Ayade, on Wednesday drove out and left behind Executive Chairmen of the 18 LGAs and state officials of the Inter-Party Advisory Council, IPAC, who had called in his office to see him. CrossRiverWatch learnt that, having shelved a planned protest to the PDP office in
By CrossRiverWatch admin Apart from being the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice of Cross River State from 1999 – 2003, Mrs. Nella Andem-Rabana SAN had the rare privilege of being on the team of counsel that represented Nigeria in the controversial territorial dispute between Nigeria and Cameroon which resulted in Nigeria ceding Bakassi to Cameroon.
By Ogar Monday It was a gathering of literary minds earlier in the week at the Marina resort for the first ever Festival Poetry Calabar 2015 organized by Poets In Nigeria (PIN) and the Calabar Literary Society (CLS) to revive arts in this part of the country. The event which was well attended by poets,
INTRODUCTION Climate change is defined as a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is, in addition to natural climate variability, observed over comparable time periods (United Nations, 1992; IPCC, 2007). Threat of global climate change is one of the
By CrossRiverWatch admin Aides of Cross River state governor Benedict Ayade have had a bleak Christmas following the non payment of allowances and bonuses up till the eve of the yuletide. CrossRiverWatch’s gathered that the aides were lined up in front of the Chief Accountant, Alfred Mboto’s office, up until 6PM yesterday when he left