by crossriverwatch admin The popular Eleven Eleven Roundabout is for the third time being pulled down and reworked between 2007 and 2012. The same treatment was extended this year to the Marian Road /Mary Slessor Avenue on which the epitaph of the famous twin -saving Scottish missionary, Mary Slessor seats on. The Mary Slessor round
by crossriverwatch admin A former Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN governorship candidate and former member, House of Representatives, Mr. Emmanuel Ibeshi has urged the people of Obudu to use the coming year 2013 to make positive contributions that will arouse the impugned dignity of the Obudu people. The former PDP national director of publicity made
by crossriverwatch admin Three suspects escaped from the Akamkpa police station overnight. Crossriverwatch gathered from a reliable police source that the three unnamed suspects were arrested early in November for raping a lady in Akamkpa. It was further gathered that the suspects had been duly arraigned before a magistrate who ordered that they should be
by crossriverwatch admin A 26-man Brazilian Carnival Band has arrived Calabar to participate in Carnival Calabar. Known as the Vai Vai Samba Band, the Brazilians thrilled a crowd that gathered at the Margaret Ekpo International Airport to welcome them. Speaking through an interpreter, the leader of the band, Thobias Da Vai-vai described the reception as
by crossriverwatch admin Prof. Ben Ayade, the Senator representing Cross River North Senatorial District in the National Assembly and one of the favourite for the ruling party’s 2015 governorship ticket, on Sunday (yesterday) handed three new Honda CRV jeeps to People Democratic Party PDP women leaders from three local governments in the Cross River North
by crossriverwatch admin The Assistant Inspector General of Police AIG Zone 6 in Calabar, Alhaji Ibrahim Mukhtari is dead crossriverwatch can report. Alhaji Mukhtari died yesterday at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital UCTH after he was rushed to the hospital for an undisclosed ailment. The Force Public Relations Officer for Zone 6 Command, SP
by crossriverwatch admin Crossriverwatch findings have revealed that for reasons attributable to mismanagement and conflict of interest, the Women and Children’s Hospital in Calabar, owned by Onari Duke, wife of the erstwhile governor of Cross River State, Mr. Donald Duke has remained shut since April 2012. The salaries of doctors and other paramedical staff sacked
by crossriverwatch admin Four policemen attached to the Ikot Nakanda police Station in Akpabuyo local government Area headquarters have been in detention since Sunday morning after one of them failed to return his riffle to the armoury which he signed for night duty. A source in the station told crossriverwatch that the four policemen reported