Tag: Ben Ayade

  • Ayade announces suspension of tuition fee for indigenous students in state-owned University

    Ayade announces suspension of tuition fee for indigenous students in state-owned University

    Cross River State Governor, Professor Ben Ayade, on Thursday announced an indefinite suspension of payment of tuition by indigenes of the state in the state-owned Cross River State University of Technology (CRUTECH), He further extended service year for indigenes of the state who have completed their one year National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and are…

  • Fani-Kayode spits fire, threatens to dump PDP

    Fani-Kayode spits fire, threatens to dump PDP

    The former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has threatened to dump the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Nigeria’s main opposition party.  He said if the National Working Committee takes the party structures in Cross River State away from Ben Ayade, the Governor of Cross Rivers state, and hand them over to another person he would take…

  • Ayade appoints 190 aides, vows to put food on table

    Ayade appoints 190 aides, vows to put food on table

    Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has approved the appointment of 190 new aides including personal assistants and special advisers. The governor’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Christian Ita, announced this in a statement on Thursday. According to Ita, the appointments were based on the administration’s policy thrust of ‘putting food on the…

  • Review ceding of Bakassi to Cameroon, Ayade charges Buhari

    Review ceding of Bakassi to Cameroon, Ayade charges Buhari

    Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade has challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to fulfil his campaign promise of reviewing the ceding of Bakassi to Cameroon. The Governor while insisting that Nigeria has unfinished business with Bakassi on Sunday maintained that the ceding of the territory did not follow any known law in the country’s and amounts…