Obono Obla’s Bla Bla Bla BY RAY EKPU
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Someone copied this message to my daughter: “Ray Ekpu made a confession that startled everybody present. He pointedly said the media would never support PMB’s regime because...
View ArticleAppreciating The Vision Of Ayade’s Banana Plantation With Automated...
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Banana is an edible fruit produced by large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa. The fruit is variable in size, color, and firmness, but is usually elongated and...
View ArticleCalabar Pharmaceutical Company; Ayade’s Strategic Investment For Reducing...
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Presently about 70 percent of drugs used in the West African Country of Nigeria are imported. Conversely, local production is running at about 30 percent installed capacity....
View ArticleESKOR @70: A Toast To Asuquo Ekpenyong OON By VICTOR NDOMA-EGBA
By CrossRiverWatch Admin When I relocated my law practice from Ogoja to Calabar in the early 1980,s, then I was with the enigmatic Kanu Agabi,now Senator, Senior Advocate of Nigeria, former Attorney...
View ArticleAyade Have Just One Ticket To Fight For BY MODLIN ODU
By CrossRiverWatch Admin When politicians are scared of going to the field to battle for victory, they start fabricating stories of who is supporting who. You hear them saying “his body language...
View ArticleAyade: Why The Leaders Must Speak Now BY DOMINIC KIDZU
By CrossRiverWatch Admin One by one, visitors from foreign lands are pouring into town to see the quiet revolution that is unveiling in Cross River State. One by one, they have left the state, bearing...
View ArticleCross River Garment Factory And The Cotton Value Chain; Ayade’s Winning...
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The role of the garments subsector in growth and development of the nation in general and the state in particular cannot be over emphasized. The garments subsector is important...
View ArticleUNICAL Convocation And Matters Arising BY PHILIP AGBESE
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Convocation ceremonies are the highest crown and pride of every University, anywhere in the world. It signifies the final ritual, which formally confers or authenticates on the...
View ArticleAborted APC Congress In Cross River – Democracy At Work BY VENATIUS IKEM
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The APC congress in Cross River state was postponed due to suspicions that the Leader of the party, Pastor Usani Usani may have compromised the congress committee who on...
View ArticleAyade’s Unfolding Power Revolution; The Foundation For The Industrialisation...
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The importance of constant electricity supply in all facets of the economy cannot be over emphasised. One of the greatest challenges to industrialisation in Africa has been...
View ArticleAyade, Breaking The Jinx On Cocoa Processing In Cross River State Through...
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Cross River is the second largest producer of cocoa in the West African country of Nigeria with production in excess of 80,000 metric tons a year. Cocoa from Cross River State...
View ArticleEDITORIAL: 19 Years Of Uninterrupted Democracy: The Cross River State Journey...
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The 29th day of May, 2018 is exactly 19 years as Nigeria and her citizens got unfettered from many years of jackboot military dictatorship on May 29, 1999 as democratic...
View ArticleAn Assessment Of Ayade’s 156 Weeks Leadership In Cross River BY SOLOMON ASHA
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Exactly 1,096 days today, the incumbent governor of Cross River state, Senator Benedict Bengioushuye Ayade, during his inauguration at the Calabar International Convention...
View ArticleDr. Joseph Wayas: The Politician’s Politician BY VENATIUS IKEM
By CrossRiverWatch Admin It is said that Cross River North has no people. Indeed that we have never had any. For the benefit of the younger and upcoming generation of politicians from the Northern part...
View ArticleTime To Restructure NDLEA BY REKPENE BASSEY
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Illicit drug trafficking and abuse have remained a quandary in Nigeria for decades now. The extent of this mire or messy muddle was first brought to public attention on 10...
View ArticleAyade’s Rice Seeds And Seedlings Factory; A Revolutionary Investment In Rice...
Rice is an edible starchy cereal grain. Cultivated rice is known botanically as Oryza sativa. Rice is the agricultural commodity with the third highest worldwide production. The world’s largest rice...
View ArticleHow Drug Barons Infiltrate Government Officials (Part I) BY REKPENE BASSEY
The largest, richest and deadliest criminal enterprise in history is penetrating deeply into civil structures that make democracy what it is: justice systems, police forces, political parties,...
View ArticleTackling The Worldwide Explosion In Illicit Drugs (Part I) BY REKPENE BASSEY
At its seventeenth special session, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Political Declaration and Global Program of Action against dangerous drugs. Nothing less was expected from a...
View ArticleBette Agba And Fulani Invasion In History BY JUSTINE UDIE
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The emergence of attacks by the Fulani Nomads is not strange to me and should not be to the Bette, Igede, and Ukel (Bekwara) people of both Cross River and the Tiv communities...
View ArticleWho Will Tell The President? BY VENATIUS IKEM
As our governor prepares for the visit of Mr. President and more Industries are hastily built and thousands are hastily employed, even if only on Radio, I recall our days in school, primary and...
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