By CrossRiverWatch Admin Cross River State Governor, Senator Bassey Otu, has signed three important bills into law, strengthening the state’s social protection system, tightening regulation of healthcare practice and providing greater fiscal flexibility to respond to emerging economic realities. The legal frameworks signed by Governor Otu on Wednesday at the Governor’s Office, Calabar, are the
By Sylvia Akpan And Paschal Okwor The First Lady of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, visited the University of Cross River State (UNICROSS) on Friday, September 4, 2026, and commission the newly established Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) ICT Experience Center. The Center said to cost one (1,000,000,000) billion Naira, provides students with free access to
By Patrick Obia Five years and ten months after the Cross River State Newspaper Corporation – Nigerian Chronicle structure was vandalized during the #ENDSARS crisis, it has been remodelled into a state-of-art facility. Hoodlums had on October 23, 2020, broke into various warehouses belonging to the government in the state and set the State Emergency
By Patrick Obia The Labour Party Candidate for the Cross River State House of Assembly, Yakurr 1 Constituency, Butum Spera has withdrew his interest and collapsed his structure for James Ibor, Esq., of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Comrade Butum Spera disclosed this in a letter addressed to his constituents and supporters stating that the
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Cross River State Audit Service Commission has called for stronger collaboration with the Ministry of Justice to enhance transparency, accountability and prudent management of public resources in the state. The Commission made the call during a courtesy visit to the State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Ededem Charles Ani,
By Sylvia Akpan The Cross River State Police Command has rescued a man suspected of stealing a mobile phone from jungle justice in Calabar. Jungle justice is an unlawful practice carried out by angry mobs with an intention to harm or kill the suspect accused of committing a particular crime without handing him or her
By Remi Ladigbolu, Punch Newspaper Denis Odama is free. But perhaps he should never have been in jail. Odama, a Cross River businessman and social commentator, was arrested in Lagos on August 9 and taken to Calabar after a police petition accused him and others of cyberbullying, defamation and incitement against the Cross River State
By Kelvin Ololo The 2027 governorship contest in Cross River State is beginning to take clearer shape, with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) releasing details of 12 candidates seeking the governorship ticket of different political parties, including incumbent Governor Bassey Otu. The details were displayed on Monday at the INEC headquarters along the Murtala