While plans appear to have been concluded by the Cross River State Government to sack dozens of local government staff employed in 2025, the legal firm, Legalmax Solicitors, “representing and acting for Local Government Staff employed in the year 2025”, has put in a plea that the state government should not go ahead and execute…
An Abuja based legal practitioner, Max Ogar, in a public interest litigation case, has dragged the Cross River State Government before the Federal High Court, Abuja Judicial Division, challenging the state government’s directive that the Cross River State Accountant General, take over the payroll system of the 18 local government councils in the state. Ogar,…
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In June 2021, I penned down my thoughts on the fate of politics in Cross River State consequent upon the defection of Governor Ben Ayade from the PDP to the APC in May 2021. My thoughts (with slight modifications on typo/syntax errors and the rationale for John Owan Enoh’s defection from the APP/ANPP to the…
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By Max Ogar Lawyer, public commentator and politician, Max Ogar pens this piece from Abuja, Nigeria. There is a popular saying that ‘it is dissent that brings about change and, eventually, development’. Without conflicts, we become stereotypes. Since 2003 after the return of democracy in 1999, the politics of Cross River State has been tepid,…
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