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Ayade’s Commissioners List Ready, Keeps Promise To Expand Cabinet

By CrossRiverWatch admin CrossRiverWatch has been reliably informed by sources in Peregrino House that the list of Governor Ayade’s Commissioners and some Special Advisers is ready and will be transmitted to the State House of Assembly for screening this week. CrossRiverWatch had reported last week that the governor set up a selection committee headed by

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UNICAL Writes Hon. Jarigbe Agom, Says His Certificate Is Authentic

By CrossRiverWatch admin The University of Calabar, has finally written to solicitors for Hon. Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe, the Member representing Ogoja/Yala Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives accepting that it was an error on the part of the institution that led to the wrong information that the lawmaker’s certificate was not genuine. Dust had

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Commissioners – Governor Ayade Sets Up Selection Committee

By Our Correspondent There are indications that the list of Commissioners and other members that will constitute the new Cross River State Executive Council, may be out later in the week or early next week. This is because the State Governor, Senator Ben Ayade has set up a committee to oversee the selection process. A

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Why We Reject Ayade’s Unity Government Proposal – APC

By CrossRiverWatch admin The national leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC has risen in stout defence of an earlier rejection to join the unity government proposed by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP government of Senator Ben Ayade in Cross River state. The party said the ruling PDP government was deficient in so many ways

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Mixed Reactions Trail Governor Ayade’s Offer Of 30 Appointments To Opposition Parties

By Aplefe Ojong The decision of the Governor of Cross River State, Senator Ben Ayade to allocate 30 appointments to members of the opposition parties in the state has attracted mixed reactions from a cross section of the indigenes of the state and other political parties. While the major opposition party, the All Progressives Congress,

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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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