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APC National Vice Chair, South South Confirms Planned Defection Of PDP Stalwarts In Cross River

By CrossRiverWatch admin The leadership of All Progressive Congress (APC) South South zone says it is confident that the zone would be adequately represented in various appointments made by President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. Mr. Hilliard Eta, National Vice Chairman of APC, South South said this on Saturday in Calabar at the end of a post-election

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Right Of Reply: The Skewed Comparison Between Ayade And Wike – A Smoke Screen BY EVAL ASIKONG

I was busy attending to state’s matters of pressing concern, when my attention was drawn to an article written by one of these social media touts who, like a few others, is looking for recognition in Governor Ayade’s government. The article, being so flawed in grammar and content, is intended to make a mockery of

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100 Days In Office: Governor Ben Ayade Of Cross River Vs Governor Nyesom Wike Of Rivers BY IFERE PAUL

The hype that occasioned the emergence of the Professor, Senator, and now Governor of Cross River State has died down. What looks like scepticism has replaced enthusiasm. Online media propagandists of the governor have since withered like dead leaves carried by wind down the bottom of the mother tree. Their impatience to hit the ground

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Ayade Abolishes Taxes For Low Income Earners, To Pay Judiciary Workers By Month End

By CrossRiverWatch Admin Cross River State Governor, Senator Ben Ayade yesterday announced he was abolishing all forms of taxation for low income earners in the state.‎ Ayade who disclosed this during a media parley in Calabar, said a bill to this effect is before the state House of Assembly. The governor maintained that the poor

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Youths Beat up Former PDP Chairman

by crossriverwatch admin Ntufam Ekpo Okon, the former PDP Chairman in Cross River State was over the weekend manhandled by youths from Akamkpa Ward in Odukpani local Government area following disagreement between the elders and youths over who to pick as the flag bearer for the PDP in the forth coming local government election scheduled

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Cross River LG Polls: Boxing in Govt House as More PDP Flag Bearers Emerge

by crossriverwatch admin Peregrino Hall, the official residence of Senator Liyel Imoke, the Cross River State governor was on Saturday night turned into a boxing arena as top politicians from Obubra in the central senatorial district of the state who could not contain one another while arguing who to select as the PDP candidate for

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Cross River LG Polls: PDP Flag Bearers Emerge in Six Councils

by crossriverwatch admin The governor of Cross River State, Senator Liyel Imoke and the leadership of the People’s Democratic Party PDP, in the State yesterday in Calabar selected the party’s flag bearers for the September 21, 2013 LG polls in six local governments. The candidates were selected from the three names that had been earlier

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Group Commences Campaign to Stop Jonathan’s 2015 Bid In Calabar

by crossriverwatch admin A pressure group, Rebuild Nigeria Initiative said yesterday in Calabar that grassroots people from all the 774 local governments in Nigeria have commenced moves to stop the present occupier of Aso Rock by 2015. Speaking during the inauguration of the State and local Government executive members of the group in the Cross

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