Month: September 2021
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#JusticeForIfenyiwa: Corps Member Opens Up On Assault Amidst Fears Army Is Shielding Lt. Anele

By CrossRiverWatch Admin Ezeiruaka Ifenyiwa Fidelia, the youth corper who was victimized by a Lieutenant attached to the 13 Brigade of the Nigerian Army in Calabar, Chika Viola Anele has opened up on issues surrounding the actions of the soldier. Ms. Fidelia told CrossRiverWatch in an exclusive interview Monday in Lagos that the incident happened

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Weekend File: Your Magazine Program On CrossRiverWatch (Episode 4)

Weekend File is a news program on CrossRiverWatch television and radio that delves deep beyond the headlines, news, views and analysis that dominated public discourse within the week in Cross River State and the Niger Delta region. In this week’s episode, Mr. Ukorebi Essien, Publisher of The Daily News was our guest. Thank you for joining

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Residents In Abuja Suburb Live In Terror Despite Being Host To Navy, Police, NSCDC

By Aishat Babatunde, HumAngle Ten-year-old Amina leans on a sunken wood frame that forms a fence for a charcoal shop. She has come to buy charcoal with two other girls from a street tucked between ‘1,000 units’ residential area and Pegi in Kuje Area Council in Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja. Frustration furrows the lines of her

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UN-POLAC Appoint Ikom Born Enene Fonne International Peace Advocate

By Patrick Obia The United Nations Positive Livelihood Award Centre (UN-POLAC) has appointed Cross River born Mrs. Enene Fonne as an International Peace Advocate. With the appointment, the Ikom born Mrs. Enene Fonne will be actively involved in peace-making, conflict resolution and other activities that encourage peace and positive living anywhere in the world. The

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Breaking News Opinion Politics

The Glorious Days Of Cross River Have Gone, Ayade Turned Governance Into Comedy – Mba Ukweni, SAN

Being text of an address presented by Ntufam Mba E. Ukweni, SAN on behalf of the body of Senior Advocates of Nigeria at the occasion of the special Court session held on Monday, the 20th day of September 2021 to mark the official opening of the 2021/2022 legal year of the High Court of Cross

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Commuters Stranded As Fallen Truck Blocks Calabar – Ikom Highway

By CrossRiverWatch Admin Commuters plying the Calabar – Ikom highway are currently stranded at Ibiae, Biase Local Government Area due to traffic jam following an accident by a truck. The truck’s bucket which holds the goods tipped over while the truck was trying to cross a culvert under reconstruction as part of the work for

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2023: With Or Without The Law, Electronic Transmission Will Be In The Process, Cast Your Vote – Sen. Bassey

By Anietie Akpan, The Guardian All hope of returning Bakassi Peninsula to Nigeria may not have been lost yet, as the National Assembly has hinted that it will withhold the ratification of its treaty. Chairman, Cross River State caucus of the National Assembly, Senator Gershom Bassey, who spoke with newsmen in Calabar, yesterday, said the Bakassi

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The Book Of Cross River Chapter 2, Verse 1-10 BY AGBA JALINGO

(Continued from Chapter 1) 1. And once news spread abroad throughout all the province of River Cross, that the people have besieged and murmured against King Benedict the son of Ngayi, then the king was greatly wroth with the seers and the town-criers and put many in a prison house; for he was in a

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