By Kelvin Ololo An unidentified aged man suspected to be mentally deranged has been found lying unconscious along the Calabar-Odukpani Highway, Calabar, Cross River State. Eyewitnesses told CrossRiverWatch that he has laid by the road side for days that is a few meters close to military and police checkpoints by Etehe-Etehe Layout after Scanobo junction,
By Patrick Obia The family of the late first female helicopter pilot in Nigeria, Gladys Ben Erriom, have cried for help, 17 years after her demise in a fatal auto crash. On a beautiful day of April 24th, 2008, young Gladys Ben Erriom was returning from her elder sister – Gift Smart’s marriage in Bekpor
By Sylvia Akpan, Government House Correspondent The Governor of Cross River State, Sen. Bassey Otu, has signed into law the Cross River State Supplementary Appropriation Bill 2025, injecting an additional ₦104 billion into the state’s budget and raising the total 2025 fiscal outlay from ₦538 billion to ₦642 billion. Speaking during the signing ceremony at
By Kelvin Ololo The Cross River State Police Command has arrested five suspects in connection with the murder of a herder – Idris Yakubu in a farm at Ugaga Community, Yala Local Government Area of the state. The police in a press release signed by the Command’s Police Public Relations Officer, SP Irene Ugbo, for
By Kelvin Ololo Residents of Uyi Effiong Street in Anantiagha Community, Calabar South Local Government Area of Cross River State, are thrown in fear and panic over alleged nefarious activities of a suspected notorious gangster known as “Puky”. The suspect allegedly raped a 13-year-old JSS 3 teenage girl inside her father’s house and terrorizes the
By Sylvia Akpan, Government House Correspondent The Governor of Cross River State, Sen. Bassey Otu , Vice President of Nigeria, Kashim Shettima and among other dignitaries have commissioned two brand-new Cally Air aircrafts. Commissioning the aircrafts at the Margaret Ekpo International Airport in Calabar, Governor Otu said his heart is swollen with pride. He averred
A first time flyer who gets money to buy a flight ticket, starts feeling like he or she is important. You will feel God has elevated you to the skies where many others have not or may never get. You are eager to snap and show the world that “what God cannot do does not
By Sylvia Akpan, Government House Correspondent The Deputy Governor of Cross River State, Rt. Hon. Peter Odey, has decried the long-standing neglect of the Bakassi Peninsula and its people, describing their condition as an “International, African and National abandonment.” The Deputy Governor made the assertion during the inaugural meeting of the Nigeria International Coastal Border