By Jonathan Ugbal The Acting Chief Judge of the High Court of Cross River State, Justice Maurice Eneji has written Governor Ben Ayade seeking over N150 million to finance the activities of the Local Government Council Elections Tribunal. The State has been without the third tier of Government since December 2016 and January 2017 for
By Ushang Ewa and Patrick Obia No fewer than five have been gruesomely murdered at the Nasarawa Bacoco axis of Calabar Municipal local government area of southern Cross River in a renewed gang war that began on Friday residents say. It is unclear the groups that are currently embroiled in the gang war, but a
By CrossRiverWatch Admin A student of the Nigerian Law School, Bwari Campus, Okeke Chikeobi Francis has been remanded along with his alleged accomplice, Valentine Wisdom Ubi, for forgery and impersonation during the school’s final bar exams. The defendants are standing trial before an FCT High Court in Kubwa on a five-count charge bothering on criminal
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Five months after he was declared wanted by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), the suspended Chairman of the Special Investigation Panel on Recovery of Public Property (SPIP), Chief Okoi Obono-Obla, has been arrested by the anti-graft agency today (Friday) in Abuja. Mr. Obono-Obla, who was declared wanted
By Kelvin Ololo, Patrick Obia and Godwin Otang A 200 level student of Civil Engineering department, Cross River University of Technology (CRUTECH) Anthony Nyip Obo was shoot dead in a robbering attack earlier this morning (Thursday) at No. 17 Ekeya street, Ekpo Abasi, Calabar South Local Government Area of the State. Our newsroom gathered that
By CrossRiverWatch Admin A jambite identified as Miss Aker Nguyilan has died on her way to write JAMB on Wednesday in a centre within Ikot Ekpene in Akwa Ibom State. According to report by Yaba Left, she was involve in a bike (motorcycle) accident that claimed her life. Miss Nguyilan Aker (from Benue State) until her death
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Fire incident has destroyed economic crops worth millions of naira in Cross River communities of Agba, Bansan, and Obubra in Boki Local Government Areas of the State. The mysterious fire incident, destroyed economic crops such as cocoa, plantain, banana, oil palm trees, bush mango and avocado peer, in an area span of
Bassey Inyang writes that Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State and the State legislators are faced with a barrage of severe criticism for discriminating against Justice Akon Ikpeme. The Judiciary in Cross River State and indeed Nigeria is currently swimming in a pool of succession controversy following the refusal of the Cross River State