By Ogar Monday and Mary Bassey Cross River State has been lauded for making lots of progress on financial reporting, but the state has been asked to improve on its application of the Single Treasury Account (TSA) as the lack of full implementation of the policy has left room for leakages. The assertion was made
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri, Vanguard Newspaper The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, sentenced the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba to three months in prison for disobeying a valid court order. The court, in a ruling that was delivered by Justice M. O. Olajuwon, held that the IGP should be committed to prison
By Jonathan Ugbal The We The People Center for Social Studies and Development, WTP – CSSD has threatened to sue International Oil Companies, IOCs for not properly carrying out divestment and abandonment of oil infrastructure after destroying the Niger delta environment in the course of their activities. The Executive Director, Comrade Ken Henshaw stated this
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Men of the Nigerian Army have assaulted a Police Traffic Warden in Calabar Municipality, Cross River State. The Army men who drove in convoy left the Traffic Warden bleeding from her head. The incident occurred at the traffic post along Murtala Muhammad Highway by Mobil filling station. The Traffic Warden explained in
By Ogar Monday A 76-year-old woman has narrated how some members of her community in Isong-Inyang in Akamkpa Local Government Area, and family members tried killing her and eventually threw her out of her property on the accusation of being a witch. Mrs. Affiong Abritam, a Traditional Birth Attendant (TBA), said trouble started for her
By Jonathan Ugbal Journalists, civil society organizations, and community actors in four states of the Niger Delta region have identified the utilization of beneficial ownership information and data as the panacea for the opacity attributed to the Nigerian extractive sector. The sector comprises the oil and gas subsector and the solid minerals subsector. And, civic
By Angela Atabo, NAN The West Africa Civil Society Institute, WACSI, a brainchild If the Open Society Initiative for West Africa, OSIWA was on Thursday inaugurated in Nigeria. WACSI was conceptualized and opened in Ghana in 2005. It began operations in 2007 with the mandate to strengthen civil society in West Africa to be responsive,
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Foremost Cross River State investigative news outfit, CrossRiverWatch, and 5 other organizations and persons have been awarded in recognition of their “brevity and service to duty in protecting persons accused of witchcraft.” The award, the brainchild of Basic Rights Counsel Initiative, BRCI, an organization that is working to end witchcraft. branding and