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Governor’s Office Apologizes To House of Assembly

By Our Correspondent Following the face-off between some members of the Cross River State House of Assembly and the Governor’s office over allegations that the House of Assembly is been taken for granted by the Governor’s office, the Special Adviser, Governor’s Office and Event Management, Mr. Ken Aklah has apologized to the House of Assembly.

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Assembly Never Took Decision To Boycott State Functions – Speaker, John Gaul

By Our Correspondent The attention of the Speaker of Cross River State House of Assembly has been drawn to a publication on CrossRiverWatch, (an online Newspaper) of Tuesday November, 24 2015 headlined, ‘’We Are Taken For Granted, We Are Boycotting All State Functions – Assembly Members Threaten Ayade, ‘’ which was attributed to Hon. Hilary

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We Are Taken For Granted, We Are Boycotting All State Functions – Assembly Members Threaten Ayade

Some members of the Cross River State House of Assembly have threatened to boycott all State functions for the remaining part of the year because according to them, their handshake with the governor is extending ‘beyond the elbow’. They accused the governor’s protocol team of persistently taking them for granted and under minding their role

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Driving The Change Agenda Through Political Diplomacy And Visionary Leadership – The Buhari/Ayade Paradigm BY EMMANUEL ETIM

The bane of development in many developing nations especially in Africa has been the inability to draw the line between partisan politics and commitment to national and state development. Often political leaders struggle to understand the complex relationship between commitment to party ideals and leadership cooperation required to produce tangible results in nation building. Democracy

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Cross River Deputy Speaker Shares 5million For 236 Constituents

By Archibong Jeremiah, House Of Assembly Correspondent The Deputy Speaker, Cross River State House of Assembly, Hon. Joseph Bassey, representing Calabar South State constituency 2 has supported two hundred and thirty-six (236) of his constituents financially. The support which was given in a ceremony recently in his constituency in Calabar South was in six categories:

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We Are Not Part Of Them – What Cross Riverians Are Saying About Biafra

By Jonathan Ugbal Following the arrest of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, protests have held in several cities and states across Nigeria with suggestions from some quarters that Cross River State was “willing” to support the secession bid. In fact, the map of Biafra that is being bandied around

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Help Me Place This Message on Governor Ayade’s Desk BY OBASESAM OKOI

Please tell the governor of Cross River that building a superhighway is great. Only an insane person will fight progress. The question is whether the superhighway is a means to an end or an end in itself. The governor has yet to answer this fundamental question. My thinking is that when a government is heavily

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Cross River Is A Digital State With A Digital Governor – Ayade

By CrossRiverWatch admin Cross River State governor, Senator Ben Ayade has described the state as a digital state with a digital governor and reiterated his promise to Cross Riverians that his administration is taking rice production as one of the key projects that they will showcase in agriculture in his effort to diversify the state

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