By Jonathan Ugbal The Cross River State Government has appropriated over N14.5 billion for tourism related activities under the purview of the Special Adviser Governor’s Office, a study of the 2019 budget of Qabalistic Densification shows. A newly introduced African Festival of Arts and Culture (Africult) will cost the State N300 million while a motor
By Jonathan Ugbal The Cross River State Internal Revenue Service plans to purchase 50 motorcycles for the sum of N10.8 million. The service also plans to buy seven units of five horsepower Yamaha speed boats at N8 million. To fund this, the service plans to generate N17.4 billion as revenue from earnings, sales, fines, fees,
By Jonathan Ugbal The Cross River State Government has earmarked N288 million for the ‘Running of Government House’ in Calabar, excerpts of the 2019 appropriation bill tagged ‘Qabalistic Densification’ show. The item falls under ‘Material and Supplies’ budget head of the Governor’s office. The supplies are appropriated N200 million totaling N488 million for the said
By Jonathan Ugbal The vehicles belonging to Cross River Governor, Senator Ben Ayade will be maintained with N40 million in 2019 findings by CrossRiverWatch reveal. The figure is contained in the 2019 budget of the State. The budget estimates obtained by CrossRiverWatch show that the provision is under the budget head, ‘Maintenance Repairs And Services’
By Jonathan Ugbal Four billion Naira has been earmarked for the food bank program of Governor Ben Ayade’s administration in Cross River State the 2019 chart of accounts reveal. The figure is N1.5 billion lesser than the N5.5 billion earmarked for the scheme in 2018. The food bank is a scheme designed to provide food
By Jonathan Ugbal As CrossRiverWatch combs through the almost 800 page N1.043 trillion 2019 budget of Qabalistic Densification of the Cross River State government, more details have emerged on the spending with nine billion earmarked for “Diesel Generators Power Supply at Homes in 18 LGAs”. It is unclear where these homes are located and who
By Jonathan Ugbal The Department of Public Transportation in Cross River State has been appropriated the sum of N392,977,651.40K in the 2019 budget of Qabalistic Densification. This is despite claims that the department which is largely viewed as a cash cow generated N13,762,300 as revenue between January and October 2018 according to the chart of