A group, Corruption Watch Initiative has petitioned the Chairman of the Governing board of the University of Calabar to investigate and punish the Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor James Epoke, for what the group call, “academic dishonesty”. In a petitioned dated March 30, 2013, the group alleged that “Professor James Epoke has several publications
by Punch There are indications that the Federal Government is concluding arrangements to set up two forward operational bases in Bakassi Local Government Area of Cross River State to check cases of alleged incessant killings, maiming and destruction of properties of Nigerians by the Cameroonian gendarmes. Commander of the 13th Brigade of the Nigerian Army
by crossriverwatch admin It was a gory spectacle on Friday evening at Ehom Village, Akamkpa along the Calabar –Ikom highway when a trailer traveling to Calabar crushed five members of the same family, three females and two males while on their way to Ikom in the central district of the state. The empty trailer, an
by crossriverwatch admin A squabble between two shoe menders Haruna Ibrahim and Aboki Zamfara who claim to be supporters of two European football teams, Chelsea and Manchester United in Calabar the Cross River State capital ended tragically after one struck the other with a plank killing him instantly. Haruna allegedly struck Aboki with a plank
by crossriverwatch admin A thirty year old man, whose name was simply given as Rowland is now in police custody in Calabar while awaiting trial for allegedly raping a thirteen year old girl, Miss Mary (surname withheld) over the weekend. The distraught girl who reported the incident to the police at Akim Police Division which
by crossriverwatch admin Senate Leader, Senator Victor Ndoma Egba on Monday presented award letters to forty two additional beneficiaries of his annual scholarship scheme to undergraduates and post graduate students. Speaking at the presentation, Senator Ndoma Egba said the scholarship programme is to develop young men and women who are the true resource of the
by crossriverwatch admin On November 1st 1995, the National Commission for Museums and Monuments, NCMM submitted to World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Education Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) a proposal for the listing and declaration of the Oban Hills as a World Heritage Site. 17 years after, the desires of the NCMM and
by crossriverwatch admin A civil society organisation and child’s rights group in Cross River, Basic Rights Counsel Initiative has demanded the sack of the Cross River State Commissioner for Social Welfare and Community Development, Mrs. Patricia Endeley for negligence of her duty. In a petition signed by James Ibor, Esq to the Executive Governor of