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Ndoma Egba Sour Grapes: The Limit Of Desperate Political Moves BY NEJI AFOR

These are indeed troubling times in the camp of distinguished Senator Victor Ndoma Egba (SAN), the embattled senator whose vaunted ambition is to represent Cross River Central for life. The well choreographed public image of the Senator took a direct hit recently when his hatchet men and surrogates threw caution to the wind by bringing

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Eaglets Beat Gabon 5-0 In Calabar, Qualify For African U-17 Championship

By Tunde Eludini Nigeria’s U-17 team, the Golden Eaglets, are through to next year’s African U-17 Championships scheduled to take place in Niger Republic as the Eaglets thrashed their counterparts from Gabon 5-0 today, Saturday at the UJ Esuene Stadium in Calabar. The result was more than good enough for the Eaglets who only lost

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Road Rehabilitation: Former Obudu LG Chair Ask Senator Ayade To Do More

by crossriverwatch admin A former Chairman of Obudu Local Government Council, Dr. Abu Undiandeye has called on Senator Benedict Ayade (PDP, Cross River North) to use his position to ensure that the entire Ogoja road is rehabilitated by the Federal Road Maintenance Agency, FERMA. While commending the Senator for initiating the repair work on the

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UNICAL Set To Conduct First Online SUG Election

By Raymond Ekemini Following the violence that rocked the election of the Students Union Government Executives in the University of Calabar last month, the school has announced that it is now set to re-conduct the botched election, but this time, online. Briefing the students at the first ever town hall meeting of the University, the

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UNICAL Students Bemoan Sunday Examination

by Raymond Ekemini Christians all over the world have set aside Sundays as a holy day for worship and thanksgiving to God. The third commandment of God according to the Holy Bible, also commands us to remember the Sabbath day and to keep it holy. All these seemed to have made no sense in the

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Central Senatorial Seat And The Logic Of Power Rotation BY SAM ARIKPO

by crossriverwatch admin As the twenty fifteen elections draw nearer, there are parameters and neo-parameters being figured out for the choice of representatives at the polls. One noticeable feature of the forth coming polls is the adoption of strategies to ensure that no ethno-geographical entity is marginalized or left out in the power distribution equation.

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Musings Of A Young Cross Riverian II BY CHRISTIANA UKUNG ALAWA

Something Worse Than Death Okay, let us call her IMA-OBONG, she doesn’t use to have those tears you see in her eyes, she was born happily and the earth received her with joy as usual, her community welcomed her and blessed her existence. Amazing how fast she grew, she was a bunch of blessing and

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Bekwara Development Association Celebrates New Yam In Calabar

By Archibong Jeremiah The Bekwara Development Association, Calabar branch over the weekend marked its 2014 new yam festival with pomp and pageantry. The Chairman of the festival Mr. Godwin Iyala asserted that the festival was an opportunity for the association to say thank you to God Almighty for the prosperous new yams harvest which is

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