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One Abducted In Obudu Five Days After Release Of Cripple

By CrossRiverWatch Admin Not more than five days days after the release of FG, the abducted cripple in Ohong village in Obudu, another man simply identified as Simon, a pharmaceutical shop owner in Obudu main town, has been abducted by armed criminals. CrossRiverWatch reliably gathered that Simon who owns the Simbless pharmaceutical shop, at No.

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Ayade’s Budget Of Infinite Transposition: Driving Aggressive Infrastructural Development Through Innovative Financial Engineering BY EMMANUEL ETIM

By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Cross River 2017 Budget of N707B is a model for budgeting with a vision, reasoning and reality. INFINITE TRANSPOSITION (INFITRANS ) is a modern Economic and Mathematical development model of fiscal engineering deployed into Governance to advance an economic democratic process that facilitates endless, seamless and contiguous project and program expenditure

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Cross River Tops Speed Limit Device Compliance – FRSC

By CrossRiverWatch Admin Drivers in Cross River state lead their colleagues from the 35 states of the federation including Federal Capital Territory in complying with the newly introduced speed limiting device with Cross River State currently ranked top in the level of compliance. The head of media and strategy of Federal Road Safety Commission-FRSC- Bisi

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Hoodlums Attack Youth Corper In Cross River

By CrossRiverWatch Admin Suspected hoodlums in the early hours of Saturday attacked a corps member, Miss Chinezendu Gbenimachor, at her residence in the Obubra Local Government Area of Cross River State. Gbenimachor, a 2016 Batch B ‘Stream 1’ corps member, is currently undergoing her primary assignment at the General Hospital in Obubra as a pharmacist.

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Twenty Feared Dead In Renewed Clash Between Akwa Ibom, Cross River Communities

By Emma Unah No fewer than 20 persons are feared dead in the renewed clash between the people of Oku Iboku in Itu Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State and Odukpani Local Government Area in Cross River State. The people of Ikot Offiong, who are an Efik speaking tribe of Calabar, were said to

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The Long, Winding Cross River Superhighway BY NNIMMO BASSEY

By CrossRiverWatch Admin The controversy surrounding the 260 km Superhighway proposed by the Cross River State government (CRSG) of Nigeria will not go away. Notably, the bulldozing of forests, farmlands and sundry properties commenced last year without an approved Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). Curiously, the government issued an edict dispossessing individuals and communities of lands

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Bail Out Funds, Paris Club Refund Intact – Ayade, It’s A Lie – Obla

By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Special Assistant to President Buhari on Prosecution, Okoi Obono Obla has accused the Cross River State Governor, Senator Ben Ayade of misappropriating the bail out funds and the 11 Billion Naira Paris Club refund handed the state by the federal government not long ago. Obla claimed that the bail out funds

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Cross River Online Journalists Condemn Recent Arrest Of Premium Times And Sahara Reporters Publishers

By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Association of Cross River Online Journalists, ACROJ has condemned the recent arrest of publishers of Nigeria’s foremost investigative journalism portals, SaharaReporters and PremiumTimes by security agents. Omoyele Sowore Publisher of SaharaReporters and Dapo Olorunyomi were both arrested recently by security agents for doing their jobs. A statement from the association signed

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