By CrossRiverWatch admin After several weeks of legal fireworks at the Cross River Election Petition Tribunal, Senator Bassey Otu, senatorial candidate of the Labor Party for the March 28 Southern Senatorial district election, seems not to be making any headway in establishing a prima facie case of election manipulation against Senator Gershom Bassey of the
By Our Correspondent Cross River State Governor, Senator Ben Ayade’s has met with investors in the Republic of Ireland, some of who have expressed willingness to set up a tractor manufacturing plant in the state. Ayade, who spent the first day of his visit between Dublin and Monaghan listening to presentations from various Irish investors
By CrossRiverWatch admin The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) in Calabar on Thursday received 522 illegal migrants repatriated from Gabon to Nigeria. The CrossRiverWatch gathered that the illegal migrants were repatriated for not having valid travelling documents. Speaking, Cross River Comptroller of NIS, Mrs Funke Adeuyi, said that the illegal migrants were repatriated from Gabon after
By Ikwen Atuaka The acting Bursar of the Federal College of Education, FCE Obudu Mr. Fidelis Okorie has died after suffering from minor medical complications CrossRiverWatch can authoritatively report. Fidelis CrossRiverWatch gathered, died last weekend while travelling from Obudu to a prayer house in Onitsha, Anambra State after the three week old stomach ache he
By Ushang Ewa The money paid by 100 level students of the Cross River University of Technology as “matriculation gown fee” is generating uneasy calm in the institution as some members of the staff and students feel it is more of a rip off by the management. A senior lecturer in the Calabar campus of
By Jonathan Ugbal Floods to anybody resident in Calabar, the Cross River State capital have become a recurring decimal over the years as ravines and gully erosions have sacked communities with attendant loss of lives and properties running into several hundreds of millions if not billions of Naira. The Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project
By Solomon Asha It is becoming clear to Cross Riverians and other Nigerians every passing day why all elements combined to ensure that the young intelligent but humble man from the hills of Obudu in the northern part of Cross River State emerged as the Governor of the state. About 68 days from his formal
By Ogar Monday The National Association of Boki Student Worldwide (NABS WW) has conducted elections into various offices at the level of the Executive council. The elections which held at the Wolu town hall in Boki Local Government Area had in attendance 10 delegates each from Abu, Boje, Iruan, Osokom 1 and 2, and Eastern