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Know Your Constituency Projects In The 2025 Budget (Part Two): Ogoja/Yala Federal Constituency In Focus  BY AGBA JALINGO 

Today, I move on to Ogoja Yala federal constituency projects budgeted for in the 2025 appropriate law. The Federal Constituency is ably represented by Honorable Godwin Offiono (Goffio). 1.ERGP20256884 SUPPLY OF AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT FOR SELECTED FARMERS AT OGOJA AND YALA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS IN OGOJA/YALA FEDERAL CONSTITUENCY, CROSS RIVER STATE Cost: N100,000,000 2.ERGP20256885 CONSTRUCTION AND

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Know Your Constituency Projects In The 2025 Budget (Part One): Obanlikwu/Bekwarra/Obudu Federal Constituency In Focus BY AGBA JALINGO

The 2025 budget has been passed and signed into law. As I promised, I will be extracting and serializing all the constituency projects of all the 8 members of the House of Representatives and all the three Senators from Cross River State. Today, I begin with the constituency projects budget for my own Federal Constituency,

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Ali Abubakar (L) and the Police Invitation to the father of the teenager
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Police Invites 17-Year-Old Over Refusal To Marry 53-Year-Old Man Who Bought Her iPhone

He is demanding that the phone he bought for the teenager be refunded, or she marries him as earlier promised.

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Clergyman On The Run From Police For Killing Daughter, Instigates Arrest Of Grieving Wife

Mr. Bassey used the Zone 6 Police Command to instigate the arrest of his grieving wife who had shared her ordeal, pointing out that, “we (mother and children including the deceased) have suffered severe physical abuses leading to my running away.”

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Police To Investigate Alleged Brutality By Its Former Officer

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  • February 25, 2025

By Favour Adinya The Cross River State Police Command of the Nigeria Police Force, says investigation will be launched concerning alleged police brutality by it former personnel. An amature video circulating on social media shows how a police officer brutalized a civilian in Boki Local Government Area of the State. In a press release issued

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Police Trails Man Who Killed His 16-Year-Old Daughter Accused Of Witchcraft In Cross River

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  • February 20, 2025

By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Cross River State Police Command has said suspect – Apostle Ubong Bassey who killed his 16-year-old daughter Deborah accused of witchcraft is been trailed. Deborah, a child said to have been with Down Syndrome is allegedly killed by his father who is now on the run. The incident, which took place

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Call It Accountability Week… BY AGBA JALINGO

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  • February 11, 2025

The past week has been very exhilarating for me for one major reason. How our representatives have unleashed their media aides to give an account of their various constituency interventions and projects. The week can rightly be called “accountability week” in Cross River State. Once we demanded that our representatives in the House of Reps

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Orok Duke Vs Sen. Asuquo: Confusion As NDDC Counters Cross River Rep Allegation Of N100Mln Palliatives

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  • January 31, 2025

By Sylvia Akpan, Government House Correspondent In a melodrama and twist in the ongoing controversy trailing the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) distribution of Christmas palliatives in Cross River State, the Commission has refuted the claims. Cross River representative of NDDC, Honorable Orok Duke had accused the senator representing Cross River Southern senatorial district in

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