By Ben Aroh, The Whistler Chinonye Onodugo clinches her three-year-old daughter—she sits on a wooden bench—waiting to be attended to by a community health worker under a mango tree. Her daughter has been feverish and needs to be attended to, but there is no other place to seek medical help than a dilapidated health centre
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Initial reports suggest that at least two people died in a car crash on Tuesday night along Yellow Duke street in Calabar South Local Government Area of Cross River State. Images obtained by CrossRiverWatch show that the car flipped and somersaulted into a hole created by flash floods just next to the
By CrossRiverWatch Admin A two term member of the Cross River State House of Assembly, Lady Elizabeth Edem Ironbar is dead. Mrs. Ironbar died in the late hours of Tuesday after a protracted illness family sources say. Ironbar who has represented Akpabuyo constituency since June 2015 is known for her Cross River State Disability Commission
By Ushang Ewa Ahead of the planned meeting between medical interns and the management of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH) slated for noon today, the premises is currently surrounded by security personnel. The interns are owed nearly half a billion Naira for their salaries spanning a period of 11 months. Several meetings and
By Maxwell Effiong and Patrick Obia Interns of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH) have protested over 11 months unpaid salary. The management since August 2, 2021 suspended the interns for asking for their wages. The peaceful protest held today, Monday, in Calabar, the Cross River State capital. Their takeoff point was IBB Way by
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By Archibong Jeremiah Ahead of planned peaceful protest, the Cross River State Police Command has invited leaders aggrieved interns of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH) for dialogue. The UCTH interns are currently preparing to exercise their fundamental rights to press home their demand to the management of the hospital who sacked them for
By CrossRiverWatch Admin There was pomp and glitz at Government House Calabar on Tuesday as the Cross River Government and the federal ministry of interior spared no expense for comfort to commission one firefighting truck. The truck is one out of about 44 trucks, about 20 ambulances and some tankers procured by the federal government
