By CrossRiverWatch Admin A Federal High Court sitting in Nigeria’s Southern port city of Calabar presided over by Justice Simon Amobeda today (Thursday) has adjourned to 2nd October 2019 to continue hearing on the case against the Federal Republic of Nigeria against Citizen Agba Jalingo. Jalingo is facing charges of terrorism, treasonable felony and attempt
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Lead Counsel to Agba Jalingo, Barrister Attah Ochinke has told newsmen that his client is ready to face trial. He maintained that Jalingo is ready for trail and is not afraid. The interview was brief after the Court session today. He said the charges before his client is sensationalized. Watch video;
By Kelvin Ololo An unidentified male suspected armed robber has being set ablaze by aggrieved youth along whitehouse by Nyong Edem street in Calabar South Local Government Area of Cross River State. The suspect was said to have been larch at early hours of Wednesday morning by aggrieved youth while other members of his gang
By Jonathan Ugbal A Federal High Court sitting in Nigeria’s southern port city of Calabar presided over by Justice Simon Amobeda on Wednesday, remanded journalist and rights activist, Agba Jalingo in Prison. Mr. Jalingo is facing charges of terrorism, treasonable felony and attempt to topple the Cross River State government. The charges received widespread condemnation
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Our newsroom can confirm that Citizen Agba Jalingo will be arraigned tomorrow (Wednesday) at the Federal High Court Calabar (Highway opposite PDP Secretariat) Court room 2. The Court will seat by 9am prompt. Jalingo has been in Police custody for 33 days without trial. His detention and rights violation has been topical
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Police Force in Nigeria has failed to arraign rights activist and Journalist, Agba Jalingo, 33 days after his arrest. Mr. Jalingo who is the publisher of online news platform, CrossRiverWatch was criminally abducted from his Lagos residence on August 22, 2019 and was forced to embark on a 25 hour torturous
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Online Publisher Association of Nigeria (OPAN) has urged the Police and Nigerian authorities to drop all the outrageous charges preferred against, Mr. Agba Jalingo, a journalist and Publisher of Calabar-based news website, CrossRiverWatch and release him from detention immediately. OPAN in a statement by President, Austyn Ogannah and Daniel Elombah, General
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Cross River State House of Assembly is considering a bill to change the State owned technology University to a conventional institution. The bill seeks to change the name from Cross River University of Technology to Cross River University. The disclosure was made by the Speaker Hon. Eteng Jonah Williams when he