By Jonathan Ugbal: Government House Correspondent Cross River Governor, Senator Ben Ayade met with two All Progressives Congress (APC) stalwarts on Sunday in Calabar CrossRiverWatch authoritatively reports. They are former Minister for Culture, Tourism and National Orientation, Mr. Edem Duke and former Special Adviser to President Olusegun Obasanjo on National Assembly matters, Senator Florence Ita-Giwa.
By CrossRiverWatch Admin On Monday the 14th day of August 2017, I was invited to join a panel to discuss the benefits and role of the Youths, following the voting patterns observed at both tiers of the National Assembly with regards the Constitution Alteration Bill, and with particular focus on the NotTooYoungToRun Bill. As usual,
By Jeremiah Archibong and Ushang Ewa The selfish and sit tight attitude of Nigerian politicians is due to the ‘free money’ available to them and inability to own a skill and mature in the art of making money says a Cross River born legal practitioner Mr. Max Ogar. He disclosed this in an exclusive interview
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Over the past few days, I have listened to several conversations focused on the Not Too Young To Run Bill recently passed by the National Assembly as part of the amendment to the constitution. This bill seeks to ensure that young people have a chance to use the best times of their
By CrossRiverWatch Admin There has been a rash of toxic material pouring freely into the social media like August rainfall in Calabar. The astonishing rapidity and regularity of this literary genre is surprising even to the casual onlooker and raises fresh questions as to the raison d’etre for this season of hate, and envy, and
By CrossRiverWatch Admin There is no human without one form of impediment or the other whether now, the future or in the past but for those who have risen above these impediments to offer their service to the society rather than wish them bad, run them down or castigate them, we should rather encourage and
By CrossRiverWatch Admin In Cross River State, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), remains the most potent and dominant Political Party holding sway the machinery of government and controlling all the eighteen Local Government Councils in the state. The Party recorded this great success since the commencement of Democratic rule in the country in 1999. As
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Why me? I am a 79 – year old farmer, a retired journalist, and a former schoolteacher in the glorious days of MaryKnoll College, Okuku. I have lived a good life as a Catholic and my Knighthood was the crowning glory from a God I have served with dedication and fear; there