By Sylvia Etta Nine members of Governor Liyel Imoke’s Executive Council who are vying for various elective political offices in the forth coming general elections have resigned their appointments from the state executive council CrossRiverWatch can report. Available information from the office of the SSG names the nine former State Executive members as Secretary to
By Sylvia Etta Over sixty members of the Odukpani Caucus of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party PDP, led by the Leader of the caucus, Professor Ndem Ayara, on Sunday night drilled aspirants for the Cross River State government house, Peregrino House in 2015. Aspirants started arriving the Channels View Hotel venue of the meeting as
By Obaji Akpet The first London style double-decker fun tour bus has been launched in the Cross River State capital, Calabar by one of Nigeria’s foremost tour operation company, NovaRosta Ltd. It is the first of its kind to be launched in West Africa. The bus was first spotted by CrossRiverWatch at the Margaret Ekpo
By Laureta Akpan Information reaching CrossRiverWatch indicate that at least five members of the Cross River State Executive Council, SEC will be leaving the council this week to concentrate on their election campaigns. The five which include Commissioners and Special Advisers from the northern part of the state who are eyeing the governorship are Mr.
It is important I clearly state the following to enable the reader understand my objectivity and professional opinion in this commentary. I am not a member of PDP, APC or any other political party. I don’t know or claim to know any of the Congressmen mentioned herein, and do not in the present or in
By Archibong Jeremiah The Bekwara Development Association, Calabar branch over the weekend marked its 2014 new yam festival with pomp and pageantry. The Chairman of the festival Mr. Godwin Iyala asserted that the festival was an opportunity for the association to say thank you to God Almighty for the prosperous new yams harvest which is
By Cynthia Michael The National Agency for the Control of AIDS, NACA has identified Cross River and 11 other states as well as the Federal Capital Territory as HIV endemic states in the country. Director-General of NACA, Prof. John Idoko, said this in Ikom, Cross River, at the opening of a four-day free HIV and
By Obaji Akpet The pageant representing Federal Capital Territory, Abuja; Elizabeth Ndukwe, 20 has emerged winner of Miss Hospitality Ambassador Nigeria. The 300 level student of Human Resource Management, Zenith University, Accra, Ghana became winner of the much coveted National pageantry, which held at the Mirage Hotel in Nigeria’s number one tourism destination, Calabar, recently.