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
By Jonathan Ugbal Legal practitioners engaged by the Cross River State ministry of justice are currently protesting at the Governor’s office in Calabar over non payment of salaries. The protest is one in a series of many that plagued the State after the delisting of nearly 3,000 workers from the payroll by the current administration.
By Jonathan Ugbal The Cross River State Government has written to the Calabar Division of the Federal High Court to adjourn the trial of Nigerian journalist and rights activist, Agba Jalingo to a date in October. Mr. Jalingo risks a death sentence or at best, a life sentence if convicted for any of the four
By Patrick Obia Kebetkache Women Development and Resource Centre in partnership with Oxfam International has ended a “Two-Day Training of Community Leaders on Gender Inclusiveness” in Calabar, the Cross River State capital. The training was targeted at getting Government to effectively communicate and demonstrate good leadership in inclusion of community members and those with disabilities