By Maxwell Effiong The Ima Nsa Adegoke foundation has begun advocacy visits to monarchs in Cross River to seek their support to end stigmatisation against widows in the State. The Cordinating Trustee of the foundation, Barr. Ima Adegoke says the harmful practice still holds sway despite a law prohibiting it in the State with widows
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Bara Ogidi, a Bayelsa State-based journalist and the publisher of Track News has been arrested by operatives of the Department of the State Security (DSS). Sahara Reporters learnt that Ogidi’s arrest on Sunday was in connection with an alleged controversial libel suit involving the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and
By Sylvia Felix All is set for the interment of late Dr. Esther Onoyom-Ita, the Executive Director of Society for Youth Development and Rescue Initiative (SYDRI) who passed on after a protracted illness last year. In a public announcement made available by the Director of SYDRI, Emmanuel Onoyom-Ita, there will be interdenominational funeral service “rest
By Patrick Obia To reduce cases of gender based violence (GBV), journalists have a critical role to play in their style of reportage said civic space actors at a training workshop for journalists in Calabar, the Cross River State capital earlier this week. The training was organised by the Coalition for the Promotion of Gender
By Itam Offor, Agency Report The Cross River State House of Assembly on Wednesday, passed into law the disability (full integration) bill 2021 in what may be its last session for the year. The bill was passed after the House considered the report of the joint committee on judiciary, public service matters, public petitions and
By Jonathan Ugbal The National Judicial Council has recommended nine persons in Cross River State for different judicial appointments. This was part of the resolutions reached at its meeting held on December 14th and 15th where the council also barred three Judges including Justice Edem Ita Kooffreh of the High Court of Cross River State
By Patrick Obia Barring any last minute change, the Cross River State House of Assembly is set to pass the Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAPP) bill this week. This followed the public hearing on the bill and that of the disability rights on Thursday and Friday last week. The bills are sponsored by the Deputy
By Jonathan Ugbal Oliver Orok, the Commissioner for Sustainable Development Goals in Cross River State, intends to present no fewer than four witnesses and seven documents in his libel suit against online Newspaper, CrossRiverWatch, its publisher, Agba Jalingo and a reporter, Ushang Ewa. Counsel to Orok, A. E. Oqua Esq, disclosed this during pre-trial in