By Jonathan Ugbal and Patrick Obia Cross River Governor, Benedict Ayade had on November 21, 2019 while presenting the 2020 appropriation bill before the state’s House of Assembly said the budget believed in “spiritual force” and had social agglutination. Mr. Ayade who referred to the budget in the third person narrative had said: “The budget
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Cross River State Governor, Sen. Ben Ayade has just signed into Law NGN1.116 trillion budget estimates for the 2020 fiscal year. The signing of “Olimpotic Meristemasis” took place in the Executive Chamber of Peregrino House. It will be recalled that our newsroom has done three series of five (General, Economic and
By CrossRiverWatch Admin As earlier reported our newsroom had obtained exclusively the Cross River State Government NGN1.116 trillion budget estimates for the 2020 fiscal year. Governor Ben Ayade had in November presented the budget estimates tagged “Olimpotic Meristemasis” before the House of Assembly. The budget has five sections namely general, law and justice, economic, regional
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The editorial board of CrossRiverWatch says it will from December 25, 2019 publish in a series, some details of the Cross River State NGN1.116 trillion budget estimates for the 2020 fiscal year. A statement signed by the Editor, Charles Kalu said; “This is in line with our mission statement to contribute to
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Cross River State Governor, Sen. Ben Ayade, savoured uncommon popularity in the week, shortly after presenting his 2020 appropriation bill titled “Budget of Olimpotic Meristemasis”. He trended massively. Even though he too almost found it difficult pronouncing the grammatical jargons he put together, he had become a butt of jokes across the
Being text of the welcome address presented by the Speaker of the Cross River State House of Assembly, Eteng Jonah Williams (PDP Yakurr II) at the presentation of the 2020 budget estimates. Your Excellency, I wish to very warmly welcome you to the hallowed Chamber of the Cross River State House of Assembly. I recall
For us in Cross River, it is yet another fiscal year, another budget and another tongue twisting confusion. Again as usual, the people would spend more time taking about, and trying to analyze the strange appellation of budget proposal presented to the House of Assembly. Definitely, the analyses would not dwell on its grave implications
By Patrick Obia Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has presented the 2020 financial estimates to the House of Assembly. He is proposing to spend NGN1,100,167,507.09 in the 2020 financial year. There is almost no difference in the estimates of 2019 and 2020 which despite announcing NGN1.043 trillion, turned out to be NGN1.148 trillion