By Ola Blessing Two teenagers have been arrested in Calabar by men of the Nigerian Police today for allegedly stealing electric cables along the IBB Way. The apprentices eyewitness said they were apprentices in the shop where they stole the wires. The eyewitness who spoke in anonymity added that the boys claimed that the owner
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Commissioner for Health in Cross River, Dr. Betta Edu has emerged as the consensus aspirant from the state for the position of Woman Leader ahead of the March 26, 2022, national convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The position is one of those zoned to the south-south region of the
By Esther Okoi For efficiency, accountability, and proper representation of the Cross River Internal Revenue Service (CRIRS), the State Chairman, Nigeria Institute of Public Relations, NIPR, Cross River State Chapter, Mr. Benedict Okache has called for more sensitization of taxpayers and the harmonization of tax collection across the 18 Local Government Areas of the State,
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Cross River representative of Sermatech Nigeria limited, handling the dualization of Calabar-Itu road, Mr. Ento Edako says community members should be blamed for the deliance in the job delivery. The project which is now funded by NNPC extends from Oku-Iboku in Akwa Ibom State to the Odukpani power plant in Cross River
By Archibong Jeremiah A lifeless baby has been found in a refuse bin in Calabar, the Cross River State capital. The dead child’s remains were dumped at the refuse bin located at Ekorinim junction, in front of Kaves Hotel. The baby appears to be close to a year old and looked sick. As of the
By Sylvia Akpan The Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution plc (PHED) in a public service announcement has expressed its dissatisfaction over the current intermittent disruption in power supply experienced in its franchise area: Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, and River State. The announcement was made on its Facebook page. It revealed that the cause of the
It is no longer news that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has rolled over its one-month warning strike which began on February 14th, 2022 for another two months owing to a failure for its negotiating team to decide with the Federal Government. It is also no longer news that the strike is owing
By Patrick Obia The principal of West African People’s Institute, Mrs. Mercy Donatus Etim has said the allegation of extortion from students is a fallacy, untrue and baseless. Mrs. Donatus made the assertion when fielding questions from CrossRiverWatch after a fact-finding visit by the State Commissioner for Quality Education, Dr. Amanke Ebunshua. The Commissioner earlier