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Governor Ayade Swears In, Assigns Portfolios To 28 Commissioners

By Our Correspondent The long awaited swearing in of Commissioners by the State Governor, Senator Ben Ayade eventually took place this morning at the Exco Chambers of the Governor’s Office. Below is the complete list of the Commissioners and their port folios, telephone numbers and email addresses:

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Cross River To Have New Chinese City And Agro Based University

By Jonathan Ugbal; Government House Correspondent Cross River Governor, Senator Benedict Ayade, again pushed the expectations of Cross Riverians from his administration, higher with the promise of a Chinese City and a University focused on Agriculture. Ayade who has been out of the state for around a month revealed this to government house correspondents shortly

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Youths Donate Chairs, Tables To Calabar South Constituency II Office

By Archibong Jeremiah, House Of Assembly Correspondent The Deputy Speaker, Cross River State House of Assembly, Hon. Joseph Bassey has lauded some of his constituents for donating fifteen (15) chairs and two (2) tables to his constituency officer at No. 12 Ekpo Abasi road, Calabar South. He made the commendation after receiving the gift items

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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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