By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Bakassi Strike Force, a militant group in the Niger Delta, on Tuesday expressed a desire to lay down arms if the concerns of Bakassi returnees are addressed under a scheme midwifed by international mediators. A leader of BSF, Simple Benjamin, aka “Humble Lion G1” in a telephone interview on Tuesday told
By Jonathan Ugbal: Government House Correspondent Cross River Governor, Senator Ben Ayade will today embark on a 6 day tour of Ikom, Obanliku, Bekwarra, Yala, Ogoja, and Obudu local government areas to perform groundbreaking ceremonies and Commissioning of projects. A released signed by his spokesperson, Mr. Christian Ita on Tuesday stated that the governor will
By Jonathan Ugbal Cross River health commissioner, Dr. Inyang Asibong is set to bury her late dad on Friday, November 4, 2016 family sources say. The late Pa Eyo Otu Eyo died mid August at 90 years of age and burial arrangements have been concluded. A service of songs is to be held in his
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Cross River University of Technology, CRUTECH alumni association have lauded the state governor, Senator Ben Ayade for what they described as “very timely intervention” in the increase of the varsity monthly subvention from N169 million to N200 million. The President of the association, Mr. Eyam Abeng who said this in reaction to
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Some media aides of the Cross River State governor, Senator Ben Ayade are presently not happy as a result of events that played out in a closed door parley with the governor yesterday. A source who was at the meeting which was not open to journalists, told CrossRiverWatch that the meeting lasted
By CrossRiverWatch Admin No fewer than 3 have been killed following renewed gangsters rivalries in the Ekpo Abasi area of Calabar South. It is unclear what the current fight is about with gangster activities spiking shortly after the commencement of degree examinations in the state owned Cross River University of Technology, CRUTECH. On Sunday, an
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Nigerian military, Thursday in a statement said their operatives raided 4 militant camps belonging to suspected members of the Bakassi Strike Force and discovered a total of 23 human skulls at different levels of decomposition and a full human skeleton in Bakassi and Akpabuyo local governments in Southern Cross River state.
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Yesterday, I wrote in my piece on this platform, Our Tenured god etc, where I posited that rather than appointing useless money sharing behemoths in the name of boards of non existing government agencies , government should rather be employing fresh hands into the civil service to enhance and regenerate it for