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
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By CrossRiverWatch Admin The PDP Governors Forum met in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja on Friday to discuss the state of the nation and to change the leadership of the forum but the Cross River state governor, Senator Ben Ayade was conspicously missing from the meeting, further fueling speculations that the governor is planning to
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The actual commencement of construction work on the Bakassi deep seaport, received a further boost, last week, with the conclusion of arrangements in China by the Cross River State governor, Senator Ben Ayade with some Chinese investors. Ayade, who flew into China with some of his key commissioners and advisers a few
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Cross River State Universal Basic Education, SUBEB has disclosed that the government has released 237 contract award letters amounting to a total of N3.6billion for the 2012-2015 Universal Basic Education (UBE) intervention projects. This followed the approval of N1.04billion as counterpart funding to enable the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB)
By Our Correspondent President Muhammadu Buhari has reassured the Cross River State governor, Senator Ben Ayade of the commitment of the Federal Government to see to the actualization of the Bakassi Deep Seaport embarked upon by the state government. The President and the governor held discussions behind closed doors at the Aso Rock presidential villa