By CrossRiverWatch Admin A day-old baby has been found lifeless in a waste bin around the Calabar-Calabar roundabout late Tuesday night. The baby who was already dead when The Parchment reporters arrived at the scene was suspected to have been abandoned there by the mother after delivery close to the Navy reference hospital. A scavenger
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Pastor Usani Uguru, a former Niger Delta Affairs Minister has slightly escaped an assassination attempt in Calabar. The incident happened today, Friday at his residence in State Housing Estate Calabar, the Cross River State capital while the former Minister was driving to catch his flight to Abuja. The assailants, armed with short
By Jonathan Ugbal The Cross River State Police Command says it will restrict the movement of people during the February 26th 2022 legislative by-elections. Two constituencies, the Ogoja/Yala federal constituency and the Akpabuyo State constituency in northern and southern Cross River are to be affected. And, the command in a statement issued on Wednesday and
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Justice N.E. Maha of the Federal High Court on Monday, February 14, ordered the final forfeiture of 24 properties held by fronts and proxies to a top military officer, to the Federal Government of Nigeria. The order was pursuant to a forfeiture application by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, which
By Archibong Jeremiah Justice Agness Onyebueke of the Akamkpa High Court division, Cross River State sentenced Mr. Anyanime Festus Udo to death by hanging for killing his twin daughters. Delivering judgment minutes ago in suit number HK/6C/2018, Justice Onyebueke said the killer’s act is satanic, demonic, and beyond human comprehension. Mr. Festus had given his
By Ada Wodu, Punch Newspaper A retired Assistant Inspector General of Police, Joseph Mbu, has been dragged to court by the Cross River State Government of Sen. Ben Ayade before a High Court sitting in the State capital, Calabar, for allegedly murdering one of his kinsmen, Ayuk Etta Ngon, in a community in Etung local
By Ada Wodu, Punch Newspaper The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has arrested seven private guards and shut three security companies in Calabar, the Cross River State capital. The companies are Close Watch Security Limited, Adonai Security Limited and Excel Security and Protection Services Limited. The State Commandant of the NSCDC, Mr. Samuel Fadeyi
By Ushang Ewa Anthony Duke, a former councilor representing Ward 5 in Calabar South Local Government Area and journalist has been kidnapped. He served between 2010 and 2013. Duke, who presented Hardline on FAD 93.1 FM Calabar on Mondays, Wednesday’s and Friday’s before the COVID-19 pandemic was abducted on Tuesday evening around Akwanga, Nassarawa State