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Systemic Underfunding Drives Corruption, Other Vices – Stakeholders

By Godwin Ajom Systemic underfunding has been identified to crippling police operations and drive Nigeria Police officers into corruption, extortion, and compromises in criminal cases and undermining justice delivery. Stakeholders during a human rights workshop in Calabar, demanded urgent reforms in the Force, citing poor welfare, inadequate funding, and weak community relations as major reasons

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Former House Of Reps Member, Daniel Asuquo Drags Governor Otu, Others To Court

By Kelvin Ololo The Former House of Representative Member representing Biase and Akamkpa Federal Constituency, Hon. Daniel Asuquo has dragged the Governor of Cross River State, Senator Bassey Otu and others to court over his mining activities in the state. Also sued is the Government of Cross River State, the Attorney General and Commission for

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Cross River Community Lives In Fear As Alleged Gangster Terrorizes, Rape 13-Years-Old

By Kelvin Ololo Residents of Uyi Effiong Street in Anantiagha Community, Calabar South Local Government Area of Cross River State, are thrown in fear and panic over alleged nefarious activities of a suspected notorious gangster known as “Puky”. The suspect allegedly raped a 13-year-old JSS 3 teenage girl inside her father’s house and terrorizes the

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Ogar Solomon Ogar, On A Flight To Solomon Island… BY AGBA JALINGO

A first time flyer who gets money to buy a flight ticket, starts feeling like he or she is important. You will feel God has elevated you to the skies where many others have not or may never get. You are eager to snap and show the world that “what God cannot do does not

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Lady Petitions Embattled Ursula Agbor For Alleged Cyberstalking, Criminal Defamation

By Kelvin Ololo Loveth Bissong has petitioned Miss. Ursula Agbor over alleged cyberstalking, criminal defamation and harassment to the Nigeria Police Force, Cross River State Command. Miss. Loveth Bissong, petitioned the embattled Ursula, through Basic Rights Partners – a law firm fighting human rights in the state and the South-South region of the country. The

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Ursula: How It All Went…BY AGBA JALINGO

Let me start by sincerely apologizing for all the suspense I have created here for the past five days. It was not deliberate. It was instigated by circumstances surrounding our invitation to the Force Headquarters. But I will bring that suspense to an end today. When James Ibor Esq and I, received our invitations from

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Embattled Ursula Agbor Petitions Agba Jalingo For Cyberstalking

By CrossRiverWatch Admin Embattled media practitioner, Ursula Agbor who has been in the news for some weeks, has petitioned Human Rights Activists, Citizen Agba Jalingo for alleged cyberstalking. This was contained in an invitation notice addressed to Jalingo by the Nigeria Police Force National Cybercrime Center (NPF-NCCC), Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID) Abuja. The invitation

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Confusion As Magistrate Court Allegedly Grant Order To Imprison Man After Close Of Work

By CrossRiverWatch Admin Outrage has trailed the remand of a 45-year-old businessman, Archibong Essien in the Afokang Correctional Center in Calabar by a Magistrate Court 1 after exhausting its cause list and risen for the day. The said abuse of court process allegedly happened on Monday July 14, 2025 after the defendant, an indigene of

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