By Wisdom Okon A sixteen-year-old girl, Miss Cynthia Udoh (not her real name) who narrowly escaped being raped shares her experience with CrossRiverWatch. Narrating her ordeal she blamed her plight on the lack of social amenities such as street lights, security, and insufficient water facilities in Atakpa market in Calabar South and environ where she
By Sylvia Akpan, Government House Correspondent Cross River State Governor, Sen. Bassey Otu has reiterated his administration’s commitment to fighting illegal logging and other adverse environmental activities in the state. According to a press release by Mr. Emmanuel Ogbeche, Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, he made this known during an on-the- spot-inspection of 32
How a violent conflict in the resource-rich Niger Delta has wrought ecological and economic devastation for a generation. Listen to this story Play 00:00:0001:12:34 As the three women from Otuabagi tell it, the Niger Delta’s woes began with a simple yet consequential misunderstanding. The European engineers came to the village in 1956, four years before
By Archibong Jeremiah In July 2019 the Cross River State Government contracted Swamaco Global Limited to design and construct a soya beans farm city with supporting infrastructure, including an access road network, water supply, and solar lighting system. It was envisaged to cost N1,541,003,500.50. According to the government, the farm is aimed at producing grains
The Conversation is Series of discussions between CrossRiverWatch investigators and those exempted from paying tax in Cross River State. The Conversation was produced by CrossRiverWatch in partnership with Civic Media Lab through its Grassroots News Project. Watch episode 1 below:
By Patrick Obia The Government of Cross River State and some individuals have been accused of turning a blind eye to deforestation and massive illegal wood logging across the State. This was the takeaway from “Combating Drivers of Deforestation in Cross River State; Workshop and Validation of Research Findings,” organized by Center for Social Studies
By Patrick Obia and Maxwell Effiong Association of Cross River Online Journalists (ACROJ) has urged the Federal Government of Nigeria and Cross River State Government to drop all charges against journalists standing trial for doing their job. The union of online journalists practicing in Cross River State made the call in a statement issued by
By Premium Times The ECOWAS Court of Justice has fixed June 29, 2021 for judgment in a suit challenging the “unlawful” arrest and prosecution of a Nigerian journalist and publisher, Agba Jalingo, under the cybercrime, terrorism and criminal code laws. The suit was instituted by a civil society group, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project