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Linda Ayade Commissions PHC As Cross River Promises To Attain Universal Health Coverage By December 2016

By CrossRiverWatch admin In a bid to drastically reduce infant and maternal mortality rate in the state, Cross River Government has set December 2016 date to attain Universal Health Coverage for its citizens. To this end, the state, in collaboration with some donor agencies and in line with the Federal Government’s policy of establishing a

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Hard Times: Woman Abandons Baby For 24 Hours To Attract Pastor’s Sympathy

By Ikwen Atuaka OBUDU: A mother picked her one year and five months baby she had abandoned 24 hours earlier at the Assemblies of God church premises along Ranch road, Obudu in her bid to direct the clergyman’s attention to the plight of her family. The woman, who simply gave her name as Monica, CrossRiverWatch

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Association Of Cross River Online Journalists ACROJ – Framing The Future In The Present BY AGBA JALINGO

“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but they all had this in common: That the step was first, the road new, the vision un-borrowed, and the response they received – hatred.” – Ayn Rand. The Association of Cross

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New FM Station To Berth Soon In Cross River

By Jonathan Ugbal   A new radio station, FAD FM will soon begin test transmission in Cross River capital city of Calabar, findings by CrossRiverWatch have revealed. FAD FM, a brainchild of Cross River Born film maker and founder, Abuja International Film Festival, Fidelis Duker is set to begin test transmission by the last week

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Cross River Safe For Business, Holidays – US Tells Citizens

By CrossRiverWatch Admin   Cross River State has been deemed fit to visit for citizens of the United States, a statement from the country’s State Department says. The statement issued Wednesday last week and published on the Department of State’s travel website at https://www.travel.state.gov advised United States citizens in Nigeria and those intending to visit

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Rio 2016 Olympic Table Tennis: Cross River Born Offiong Edem Defeats Yee Sally 4-0

By CrossRiverWatch admin Nigeria’s Offiong Edem yesterday qualified for the next round of the Table Tennis event after she beat Yee Sally from Fiji 4-0 in the women’s singles preliminary round at the on-going Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil. The 2011 African Games women singles champion, defeated Sally in four straight sets 11-3, 11-8,

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Ayade: The People Have Again Spoken Loudly, Acted Openly In His Support BY SOLOMON ASHA

There are always two major phases and faces to life and man’s existence on mother earth. There is the beautiful and favored and the ugly and the disfavored which goes beyond just the mere facial beauty and appearance. Each mortal passes through both phases, faces once or severally in life time. The beautiful face may

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Universities Ranking: CRUTECH Aims For The Zenith

By Inyali Peter The Alumni association of the Cross River University of Technology is in consultation with stakeholders in the education sector home and abroad to ensure the varsity tops the next rankings says the president Eyam Abeng at the body’s launching for a new centre held last week Saturday in Calabar. Abeng posited that

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