By Jonathan Ugbal Some business outfit owners operating along the popular Bedwell street in Calabar grumbled over the Environment Commissioner’s decision to sanitize the area. The Commissioner, Engineer Mike Eraye in the company of the CUDA boss Joe-Mary Ekeng and his counterpart in the State Waste Management Agency, Willie Okokon and some staff of the
By Our Editorial Board The present entity, Cross River State is among the 12 original states created in 1967 in Nigeria by General Yakubu Gowon to weaken the Eastern Nigeria which was on the verge of seceding to form the Republic of Biafra. Known then as South-Eastern State and later rechristened Cross River in 1976,
I have for the past eight or there-about months watch very keenly with intense attention how the information of the Governor of Cross River state, Professor Ben Ayade has been managed by the Chief Press Secretary and Special Assistant Media, Mr. Christian Ita. Christian Ita’s method of managing the governor’s information machinery is what I
By CrossRiverWatch admin It is mandatory for each state of the federation to establish a State Primary Health Care Agency, SPHCDA. This is in line with the provisions of the new National Health Act. The Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. Ado Muhammed disclosed this while
By Our Correspondent The Speaker of the Cross River State House of Assembly, Hon. John Gaul Lebo has urged Obudu people to support their kinsmen in public office. He gave the charge recently during the thanksgiving service of the member representing Obudu State Constituency in the Cross River State House of Assembly, Hon. Stephen Ukpukpen,
By Frank Edima The Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC), Cross River State Council, yesterday joined the rest of the labor movement in the nationwide protest against increased electricity tariff. The protest which held along Calabar road according to the NLC, State Chairman, Comrade John Ushie, is to express their disapproval of the 45% increase in tariff
By Ushang Ewa The Cross River state government Special Envoy to the African Development Bank (AfDB) Emmanuel Ibeshi, has met with several board members and executives of the financial institution to discuss its interventions and planned programs in the state. Ibeshi in separate meetings with the bank’s top guns in Nigeria and its headquarters in
By Our Reporter Mr. Jeremiah Archibong, a CrossRiverWatch correspondent had his phones seized in court yesterday and was briefly detained by the duty police officer in court for allegedly recording court proceedings. CrossRiverWatch gathered that the phones were seized when one of the accused persons (Inspector Gershom), recognized the correspondent and raised alarm that they