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#JusticeForIfenyiwa: Corps Member Opens Up On Assault Amidst Fears Army Is Shielding Lt. Anele

By CrossRiverWatch Admin Ezeiruaka Ifenyiwa Fidelia, the youth corper who was victimized by a Lieutenant attached to the 13 Brigade of the Nigerian Army in Calabar, Chika Viola Anele has opened up on issues surrounding the actions of the soldier. Ms. Fidelia told CrossRiverWatch in an exclusive interview Monday in Lagos that the incident happened

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Residents In Abuja Suburb Live In Terror Despite Being Host To Navy, Police, NSCDC

By Aishat Babatunde, HumAngle Ten-year-old Amina leans on a sunken wood frame that forms a fence for a charcoal shop. She has come to buy charcoal with two other girls from a street tucked between ‘1,000 units’ residential area and Pegi in Kuje Area Council in Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja. Frustration furrows the lines of her

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Navy Arrests Three Suspects, Intercept 1,209 Bags Of Smuggled Rice In Calabar

By Godwin Otang, Tribune Newspaper The Nigerian Navy Ship Victory (NNSV) has arrested three suspected smugglers with one thousand, two hundred and nine (1,209) bags of illegally smuggled parboiled rice along the waterways. The suspects and the goods have been handed over to the Nigerian Customs Service in Calabar, on Monday. The suspects, Humble Edet,

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Police Rescue Kidnapped Victim In Calabar

By CrossRiverWatch Admin Policemen attached to Operation Akpakwu, a joint task force of the Cross River State government have rescued a kidnapped victim hours after her abduction in Calabar, the State capital. “Today, 20th September 2021, at about 11:00AM, one Mrs Ruth Jerome of No 3B Ikot Nkebre, in Calabar was kidnapped from her resident

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ICYMI: Names Of Suspected Internet Fraudsters Arrested In Calabar

By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Uyo Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Thursday arrested thirty-three suspected internet fraudsters during a sting operation at different locations in Calabar, the Cross River State capital. 17 were arrested at a location on Post Office Street, Royal Estate, off Ikot Omin, while 10 were apprehended

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UPDATED: General Iron, Two Others Killed, Ogep Osokom And Oku Share Iron’s Corpse

By CrossRiverWatch Admin A combined team of soldiers and vigilante has killed Mr. Thomas Obi Tawo, aka General Iron in Boki LGA. Our source confirmed that Iron was shot dead in a gun battle with soldiers and the vigilante earlier today. Our sources on the ground confirms that, Ogep Osokom and Oku communities divided General

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Police Arrest Suspected Pirates, Kidnappers, 24 Others In Cross River

By Ike Uchechukwu, Vanguard News The Cross River State Police Command has arrested three suspected sea pirates, four kidnappers, and 24 others for armed robbery and sundry crime in the State. Briefing journalists on Tuesday in Calabar, the State Commissioner of Police, CP Aminu Alhassan said it was a new era in Cross River as

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Terrorism Alert! Abandoned Buildings Expose NNPC Towers, CBN, Others To Attacks

By Tayo Olu, The Whistler The NNPC Towers and the Central Bank of Nigeria Building, both iconic national edifices, amongst others, may be vulnerable to attack by unscrupulous interests and terrorists who may hide to unleash attacks in the several high rise uncompleted buildings surrounding them. There are believed to be more than 460 abandoned

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