By CrossRiverWatch Admin At least 59 commercial sex workers which included 43 girls and 16 men have been arrested by the Department of State Security (DSS) in Calabar. Ilupeju Adebayo, Director of DSS in Cross River, who briefed reporters today Saturday in Calabar, said the girls were rounded up at 2:15 a.m Saturday morning at
By Our Correspondent Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River state has written to three villages in Obudu, Atiekpe, Ikwomikwu and Okambi, all neighbouring his Kakum village, appealing for their cooperation towards the commencement and speedy completion of work at a new airport the governor plans to build in Obudu. According to a letter to Clan
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Chairman of the Governing Council, Cross River University of Technology CRUTECH, Mr. Emil Inyang has told CrossRiverWatch that he is still surprised where the media brought the word “reversed” from, when no one had been ratified as acting VC of the University. He said the ongoing confusion has only been created
May 29, 2015. I was at the Calabar International Conference Center CICC. There was also a mammoth crowd. The place, though still under construction, was hurriedly opened for the inauguration of the new Governor, Senator Ben Ayade. I got there early with the CrossRiverWatch team. I saw the entry of the outgoing governor Imoke. He
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Chairman of the Cross River State Independent Electoral Commission CROSIEC, Dr. Michael Ushie, wants governor Ayade to properly constitute the third tier of government in the state, to trickle benefits to the local people as well as create job opportunities to absorb some of the appointees that are being laid off
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Close to six thousand former appointees of the the governor of Cross River state, Senator Ben Ayade, are turning jobless from today. That is sequel to a directive from the governor in a statement last week, that all appointees prepare their handover notes and submit to him through the permanent secretaries of
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Three months after the arrest of Mr. Edet Okon Asim, a former Chairman of Calabar Municipality and Special Adviser to Governor Ayade on Biodiversity, he will now be arraigned at the High Court on charges of raping a fifteen year old girl. Edet Asim will be charged along with two other accomplices,
By CrossRiverWatch Admin CRSPHCDA INTERVIEW SCHEDULE FOR EMPLOYMENT. SOUTHERN SENATORIAL DISTRICT. DAY ONE TUESDAY 23/4/19 TIME; 8am PROMPT VENUE; CRSPHCDA CONFERENCE ROOM CADRE TO BE ATTENDED TO; OPTOMETRIST PHARMACIST HEALTH RECORDS JCHEW/CHEW WARD ORDERLIES DAY TWO WEDNESDAY 24/4/19 TIME; 8am PROMPT VENUE; CRSPHCDA CONFERENCE ROOM CADRE TO BE ATTENDED TO; NURSES AND MIDWIVES MED LAB/LAB