By crossriverwatch admin The Cross River State Youth Leader of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Nathaniel Effiom Otu has decried the rising poverty rate in the state. Comrade Otu, while addressing a delegation of APC youths from across the state who paid him a solidarity visit in Calabar, during the week observed that
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Former African sprints queen, Mercy Nku, is thrilled that the Obudu Mountain Race will clock 10 years this year and believes the huge successes recorded in the hosting of the competition has been due to the total and unflinching support the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) for the race has enjoyed from Cross
By Jonathan Ugbal The 2013/2014 academic session students’ week of the Cross River University of Technology, CRUTECH has kicked-off today Tuesday 11, November 2014 with an exhibition, rag day and visit to the Infant Jesus Orphanage home in Calabar as day one activity. The President, Students Union Government, SUG CRUTECH, Comrade Idiege Steven Omang in
By Adah Onah With a few days to the 3rd Nigerian Sports Award scheduled for Thursday in Lagos, Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola and his Delta and Cross River counterparts Emmanuel Uduaghan and Liyel Imoke have emerged as contenders for the Sports Governor of the Year Award. The trio, who have contributed to sports development in
By Adah Onah The Provost of Federal College of Education Obudu, Cross River state Chief Eugene Ibli, on Sunday said that the school is ready to host the next edition of the Nigerian Colleges of Education Games, NICEGA billed to be hosted by the school in 2015. Mr. Ibli who gave this assurance in Minna
By Our Correspondent Prince Goddy Jedy-Agba, who until his voluntary retirement in July this year, was the Group General Manager, Crude Oil Marketing GGM, COMD at the NNPC, is the highest employer of labor in Cross River State outside government via his Agro-based consortium – Godilogo Farms. In this interview with select journalists, Agba, one
By Laureta Akpan Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in Cross River State, Ntufam John Okon has described Ndoma-Egba’s petition to the national leadership of the party calling for the dissolution of the state executive as mere grandstanding. According to the state PDP chairman, the leadership of the party in the state will not sit
By Jacob Ajom The Conference of Cross River State Professionals has frowned at the reported disqualification of some governorship aspirants seeking nomination for the 2015 governorship election under the platform of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in Cross River State by a caucuses allegedly controlled by the Governor, Senator Liyel Imoke. In a statement issued