By CrossRiverWatch Admin You say it… “Our rice and other agricultural produce if properly utilized will boost our economy; we need to encourage the farmers in the rural areas in particular to commercialize their farm produce and encourage more access roads which agriculture will hardly thrive without. “We need to empower our people to utilize
By Eba Ishmael Senator John Owan-Enoh has been backed by the Women Impact Network (WIN) to run for a second term in office as the Senator representing the central senatorial district of Cross River State in the National Assembly. Owan-Enoh who was nicknamed “Johnwin” by the association got the backing recently during the commissioning of
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Former two term federal legislator, Honorable Paul Adah has decried the tearing down of Obudu local government area of northern Cross River State where he and the incumbent Governor Ben Ayade hail from. Mr. Adah who declared his intention to run for the Gubernatorial position in the 2019 general elections on the
By Inyali Peter Ahead of the 2019 general elections, former House of Representatives member representing Obudu/Obanliku/Bekwarra federal constituency, Mr. Paul Adah has met with members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogoja in a bid to clinch the party’s gubernatorial ticket in 2018. Mr. Adah had last weekend announced his intention to contest and
By Jonathan Ugbal The call by the Cross River State chapter of Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC) on the state governor, Senator Ben Ayade to resign, has been described as exercise oiled by a NGN100 million financial inducement. Dismissing the call by IPAC, The Deputy Chief Press Secretary to Governor Ayade, Mr. Linus Obogo said
By CrossRiverWatch Admin As preparations gets high for the conduct of local government elections in the state by the Cross River State Independent Electoral Commission (CROSIEC) I implore young Cross Riverians who sincerely desire to effect and see genuine change in the state to go back to the grassroot and begin genuine campaigns. The place
By Jonathan Ugbal Cross River Governor, Senator Ben Ayade on Thursday presented a budget of NGN1.3 trillion tagged “Budget of Kinetic Crystallization.” The figure and name of the budget has sent the social media sphere agog with comments and CrossRiverWatch monitored some on Facebook and Twitter which are listed below. Legor Idagbo, a federal legislator
By Ogar Monday; House of Assembly Correspondent The Cross River State House of Assembly has asked aides of Governor Ben Ayade to acknowledge the supervisory role of the commissioners of the various ministries they belong to. There are 27 commissioners and almost all have fallen out with Special Advisers, Special Assistants and Boards Chairmen in