By CrossRiverWatch Admin Despite anti riot police men patrolling Ukelle in Yala local government area of Cross River State and Izzi local government area of Ebonyi state, both communities have continued their war with injuries sustained on both sides. The conflict is one of the several existing between communities in both states due to land
By Ogar Monday/Grace Orok In the fight to eradicate toxic waste materials, the Global Impact SAGE Team (GIST), a team of young ‘teenpreneurs’ in Calabar has been produced an Eco-friendly Inter-locking paving tiles, called GI (Global Impact) Interlocking, made from plastics and glass. The GIST team, a subsidiary of Students for the Advancement of Global
By Ushang Ewa Former Cross River Governor and a National Board of Trustees Member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Clement Ebri has announced his withdrawal from contesting for the national chairman of the party. The national convention to select new leaders for the party is slated for today at Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city.
By Obeten Godfrey The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), has concluded plans to resume it’s Post-Graduate Foreign scholarship to qualified indigenes of the Niger Delta region. This was contained in a statement signed by Clara Braide, S.A. Communications, Office of the Board Chairman of the Commission; and follows the approval by the Governing Board and
Officials of the Cross River state governnemt and officers of the Nigerian Navy in Calabar are putting finishing touches to preparations to receive President Buhari on Tuesday June 26, 2018 as the President returns to the state, this time, to commission the new completed Nigeria Navy Reference hospital and the Cross River state Rice Seeds
By Odey Ojeka Fourth term federal lawmaker, Honorable Bassey Ewa (PDP Abi/Yakurr) has declared his intention to run for the position of the Senator representing Cross River central senatorial district. Mr. Ewa made the declaration when he visited the Obol Lopon of Ugep, Obol Ofem Ubana in his palace yesterday in Yakurr. Accompanied by the
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The emergence of attacks by the Fulani Nomads is not strange to me and should not be to the Bette, Igede, and Ukel (Bekwara) people of both Cross River and the Tiv communities in Benue State. An attempt to trace the origin, exodus and settlement of the Bette Agba kindred as part
By Ilam Patricia A Cross River based Legal Practitioner, Barrister James Ibor has argued that there’s nothing to celebrate about the President’s assent to the law that gives the State Legislature and Judiciary financial autonomy, stating that “they both have had the powers and had not been able to exercise it.” Barrister James who is