By Patrick Obia Dozens of aggrieved civil servants in Cross River, on Wednesday, shutdown the new secretariat complex in Calabar to protest the non-payment of their salaries for a period of three years. They bore placards with different inscriptions, chanting songs, demanding the sack of the Head of Service (HOS), Mrs. Geraldine Akpet-Ekanem for alleged
By CrossRiverWatch Admin In what seems a paradigm shift from existing norms, over a dozen journalists were on Friday in Calabar, trained on reporting in depth the extractive industries in Cross River State in a bid to promote contract transparency, beneficial ownership, accountability, and overall transparency in the sector. The training, which had physical and
By Sylvia Felix, Theresa Augustine and Isioma Amifor Civic Activist and Media Practitioners Forum Lead, Gabriel Adim, has called for civic atmosphere where citizens can express themselves without undue stifling. Comrade Adim made the assertion on episode 265 of “The Dailogue With Agba Jalingo” on Hit 95.9 FM, Calabar where he featured as a guest
The Dialogue With Agba Jalingo is a topical radio program which airs on Hit95.9FM Calabar, Sundays 6-7pm. Introduction The civic space is a concept rather than a physical space that created by a set of universally-accepted rules, which allow people to organise, participate and communicate with each other freely and without hindrance, and in doing
By Sylvia Felix, Theresa Augustine And Rosemary Nkereuwem The Royal African Foundation has ended a week long volunteering activities in Calabar, the Cross River State capital where it charged young minds on the need to volunteer to humanity. The week long volunteering exercise which kicked off with a visit to Offiong Ikpeme Foundation, Calabar South
By Sylvia Felix Award winning veteran journalist, Isine Ibanga has urged journalists to track the performance of budgets in the State in order to promote accountability. Ibanga, who publishes The Next Edition, stated this Monday in a virtual training session for staff of Cross River’s foremost online Newspaper, CrossRiverWatch on investigative journalism where he averred
By Victoria Effiong In a bid to promote open governance practices and accountability in extractive industries, civic space actors gathered for a capacity building on public engagement and participatory governance last weekend in Calabar, the Cross River State capital. This was part of the Power for Voices Partnership (PVP) Fair For All Project which covers
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Project Alert on Violence Against Women, an NGO based in Lagos has launched today on social media, a documentary on community services available for survivors of Sexual and Gender based Violence, SGBV. The documentary tells the stories of survivors and the help they got from the SGBV Community Surveillance Teams the NGO