By CrossRiverWatch Admin President Muhammadu Buhari and the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Onnoghen, on Tuesday shook hands at the Armed Forces Remembrance Day in Abuja. This is the first time as reported by Channels Television both men will be seen meeting publicly after the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) filed charges against the CJN at the
By Efa Sunday; Government House Correspondent The Executive Governor of Cross River State, Sen. Ben Ayade has called for a special scholarship program for the children of fallen heroes. The Governor made this call yesterday at the Millennium Park, venue for the Armed Forces Remembrance Day in Calabar. Mr. Ayade who was represented by the
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Walter Onnoghen, on Monday, challenged the jurisdiction of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, sitting in Abuja, to try him over his alleged failure to declare his assets. The CJN, who stalled his planned arraignment following his refusal to appear before the Justice Danladi Umar’s
By CrossRiverWatch Admin About 30 Senior Advocates of Nigeria with a battery of about 100 other junior lawyers have so far appeared before the Code of Conduct Tribunal in Abuja in defence of the Chief Justice of Nigeria who is to be arraigned on six counts of non-declaration of assets. According to Punch Newspaper, the
By Jonathan Ugbal: Government House Correspondent The South-South Governors forum has called on the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen to ignore the court summons by the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB). The forum made the call shortly after an emergency meeting held at the instance of it’s chairman, Governor Seriake Dickson of
By Jonathan Ugbal The South-South Governor’s Forum has scheduled an emergency meeting of the Forum for today (Sunday) over the planned trial of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, and other issues. Channels Television reports that a statement issued by the Special Adviser on Media to Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State,
By Jonathan Ugbal A veteran On Air Personality (OAP) with the State owned Cross River Broadcasting Corporation (CRBC), Mr. Peter Etim also know as ‘Peter-Tex’ and ‘The Godfada has been kidnapped. The 50-year old is said to have left home for work where he was scheduled to go on air when a vehicle pulled up
By Ushang Ewa and Elijah Ugani The Nigerian Police Force and Nigeria’s secret police, the SSS have begun Investigations into the interception of sensitive materials used for the prosecution of the 2015 general elections by the Boki area office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). A truck conveying the materials was Intercepted this morning