By CrossRiverWatch Admin Due to the inability of Cross River State to host the National Sports Festival since the state got the right after the last edition in Lagos, Eko Games, in 2012, Sports Minister Solomon Dalung, has revealed that the Federal Government will host the 19th National Sports Festival in Abuja next year. Cross
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Reports reaching CrossRiverWatch suggests that the wife of retired Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) Joseph Mbu has been kidnapped. As at press time, CrossRiverWatch confirmed from sources in the office of the State Commissioner of Police that Mrs. Mbu was kidnapped in her Calabar residence Tuesday night with little information concerning
By Jonathan Ugbal and Ashie Osor The federal government has announced the approval of a project to site a border market and health center among several others in Bakassi local government area of Cross River State. The Director, National Border Communities Development Agency, Alhaji Faruk Maiturare disclosed this, Monday when he led a delegation from
By Xavier Odey Ojeka A terrible accident occurred yesterday, Thursday evening along the busy Ikom-Calabar High Way, close to the Eckankar Temple in Ugep when a trailer with plate number FUN 69 XA lost control and skidded off the road. An eye witness said the trailer which was carrying goats from the northern part of
By CrossRiverWatch Admin It is natural for people to constantly criticize those in power and authority whether they be elected officials, political appointees, heads of departments and so on. Undoubtedly, It is not out of place for citizens to criticize their leaders as policies and programmes deployed by those in authority directly or indirectly affects
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The National Assembly has cleared the Leader of the Seventh Senate, Victor Ndoma-Egba SAN, as the substantive chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) CrossRiverWatch can authoritatively report. Ndoma Egba yesterday faced the Senate committee on NDDC chaired by Senator Peter Nwaoboishi (PDP, Delta North) and following the tradition, was asked
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Cross River State governor, Senator Ben Ayade has urged Nigerians to demonstrate utmost gratitude to God as the country marks 56 years of nationhood. Ayade who made the call in a statement signed by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Chief Press Secretary, Mr Christian Ita, said 56 years of Independence
By CrossRiverWatch admin In a renewed drive to fully commercialise agriculture and to better support crop production, aqua –culture and accelerated rural development, President Buhari announced yesterday that the federal government has already commenced work on all the twelve River Basin Authorities in the country including the Cross River Basin Authority. The twelves basins include: