By Ashie Osor The Cross River state government has commenced palliative work on the Calabar-Odukpani-Itu road to ameliorate the pain that road users have had to endure on the road which has become impassable and responsible for the intractable Odukpani junction traffic gridlock. The federal highway has remained in a terrible state, subjecting motorists and
By Emmanuel Una The Muri Munene of Efuts and Paramount Ruler of Calabar South Local Government Area of Cross River State, Muri Effiong Mbukpa, has alleged that some influential persons incited criminals to march into his palace and attack him. He also said that the influential persons, who were working against his getting the staff
Ntufam John Okon is the Cross River State Chairman of PDP. In this interview with CrossRiverWatch, he sheds light on the ongoing financial crises the state branch of the party is facing and also reacted to the swearing in of Usani Usani as substantive Minister of Niger Delta Affairs. Excerpts: Good evening Sir! Good evening,
By Jonathan Ugbal Following Usani Uguru’s swearing in as Niger Delta Affairs Minister by President Muhammadu Buhari, Cross Riverians have greeted the news with mixed reactions as respondents who spoke with CrossRiverWatch have diverse expectations. A senatorial aspirant under the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the last general elections Raymond Ugba, in
By Archibong Jeremiah, House Of Assembly Correspondent The Cross River State House of Assembly was Wednesday 11th, November 2015 morning, forced to truncate it’s plenary because of power blackout. The blackout occurred while Hon. Hilary Bisong of Boki 2 State Constituency was addressing the House on the rationale and objectives of his bill; Cross River
By Archibong Jeremiah Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River state has appealed to tanker drivers in the state to call off their ongoing strike which has worsened the fuel supply situation and hiked transport fares across the state. The governor also promised the tanker drivers who are striking over the impassable state of the Calabar
It was sometime in year 2000, while in the office of the Minister, in the Ministry of Cooperation and Integration in Africa as Head of Media and Public Relations, my boss, Prof. Jerry Gana had called me into his office to meet a very close friend of his, whose wife was having some issues in
The Immediate past leader of the senate Victor Ndoma Egba has publicly declared his movement from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) CrossRiverWatch can authoritatively report. A member of the 5th, 6th and 7th Senate, Ndoma Egba’s move puts to bed months of speculations about his movement to the opposition