By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Nigeria Labor Congress, NLC, and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, in Cross River State on Wednesday picketed the state Ministry of Local Government Affairs and the Office of the Head of Service. This followed the non-payment of eight months` salaries of local government workers and primary school teachers in the state.
By Ogar Monday The Cross River state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Inyang Asibong has inaugurated members of the Board of the Cross River State Health Insurance Agency. Speaking at the event which held at the Ministry of Health conference room, Dr. Asibong stated that the inauguration of the Agency’s board is the first step towards
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The dead body of a four-month-old baby boy was last week, found in a gutter, wrapped in a polythene bag, at Beebobsco Bus Stop along Murtala Mohammed Highway in Calabar. Vanguard quotes an eyewitness, Eme Douglas, who sells cement close to where the baby was discovered, said she saw the baby when
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Cross River Police Command on Thursday donated food items worth thousands of naira to the `Orphanage Home’ in Uwanse area of Calabar South Local Government. The State’s Commissioner of Police, Mr Jimoh Ozi-Obeh, said that the donation was part of the command’s humanitarian activities to the needy and less privileged in
By Emma Una Police have confirmed the arrest of three persons in Calabar over the stabbing to death of one David Agama, a chief security officer with Cross River State Cultural Center Board, by unknown persons. The arrest of the suspects, which include the deceased’s girlfriend, according to the Cross River Police Command Public Relations
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The premises of the Calabar Urban Development Agency, CUDA, has been sealed for a month running, following a magistrate court judgment against the state government over non-payment of N12.3 million annual rent covering 2014-2016 to the property owner and octogenarian, Chief Mrs. Ekanem Oku Kurz. Vanguard reports that the annual rent of
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Executive Chairman, State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Dr. Stephen Odey, says the administration of Senator Ben Ayade in Cross River is passionately committed to ensuring standard and qualitative basic education in the state. Dr. Odey disclosed this while addressing teachers at the ongoing personnel audit, biometric image capturing and promotion/upgrading
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The promise to locally source for and process raw materials to feed the Cross River Garment factory through the cultivation of cotton farm and ginnery within the state has received a boost with the state government acquiring 1000 hectares of land from the people of Woda in Yala LGA for the cultivation