By Our Correspondent The Cross River State Government has dismissed a newspaper report which puts the state’s total debt profile at N400 Billion as fiction. The government also described the report which claims the state is the most indebted in the country as misleading and false. A statement issued in Calabar on Monday and signed
By Aplefe Ojong The Federal High Court 6 sitting in Maitama, Abuja and presided over by Justice Adetokunbo Ademola (Jr.) on Friday March 20, 2015 declined jurisdiction in a case filed by Joe Agi (SAN) against the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the PDP gubernatorial candidate in the April
By CrossRiverWatch admin Generational Voices (GenVoices) is partnering with British Council and Enough is Enough (EiE) to deliver a Citizens’ Debate on the upcoming elections in Calabar, the Cross River State capital. This will be facilitated through GenVoices’ conversational platform called Gentalks. This builds on the extensive work that GenVoices and its partners have done
By CrossRiverWatch admin The Special Adviser on Media and Publicity and Chief Press Secretary to the Cross River State Governor, Mr. Christian Ita, has reacted quickly to allegations by the opposition Labor party that the PDP led government in Cross River State should be held responsible for the upsurge of violence in the state, particularly
By CrossRiverWatch admin The Labor Party House of Representatives Candidate for Bakassi/Akpabuyo/Calabar South Federal Constituency in Cross River State, Hon. Dominic Aqua Edem, has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen. Hon. Aqua who is also a former Commissioner representing Cross River State in the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC was said to have been kidnapped at
Long before the Cross River State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party sounded the whistle to signal the commencement of its governorship campaign, Senator Ben Ayade was already considered by many as a presumptive governor merely awaiting a formal coronation on May 29. And by the time the campaign was finally flagged off on January
By Aplefe Ojong Universities administrators’ in Nigeria have been called upon to aggressively increase the pace of knowledge generation with emphasis on practical needs-responsive and needs-driven research to provide solutions to practical national problems and challenges. President, Dr. GoodLuck Ebele Jonathan gave the challenge in his address presented at the 28th Convocation ceremony and 40th
When Ben Ayade emerged as Cross River State flag bearer to represent PDP in the April gubernatorial elections, little did we know that the road to Peregrino House will be a rough one. Selecting candidates rather than popular elections had appeared to hold sway in PDP Cross River State for some time, however, the actors