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
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Four people are currently receiving treatment for gun wounds after men of the Nigerian Police Force shot to disperse villagers gathered at its divisional headquarters in Ogoja, locals say. They are being treated at the General Hospital in Ogoja which is directly opposite the police station. This comes on the heels of
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Cross River State has condemned the position of the Governor, Benedict Ayade on the raging open grazing debate in the country. Mr. Ayade had last week, in a presser, said that he was against the anti-open grazing law proposed by the State’s House of Assembly in
By Emmanuel Uti, FIJ Emeka Okoro, a crypto trader based in Cross River State, has narrated how officers attached to the Akim Police Station in Calabar extorted N1.7 million from him in three weeks. On November 10, Okoro heard a strange knock at the door of his newly rented apartment in the Akim area of
By Maxwell Effiong The Nigerian Police Force has beckoned on community members to keep effective neighborhood watch in their community. This was the message from a one day security summit by the Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC) in Calabar, the Cross River State capital where security experts say security is everybody’s business. The State Commissioner
By Jonathan Ugbal A Federal High Court sitting in Calabar and presided over by Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu has discharged the former bursar of t he University of Calabar, Peter Agi over alleged acts of corruption. Agi, was discharged on Thursday after the prosecution filed a letter from the University of Calabar which said they were
By Our Reporter House of Representatives member for Calabar Municipality/Odukpani Constituency, Hon. Eta Mbora, has accused officials of the Ministry of Works (Calabar office) of corruption. Hon. Eta told journalists in Calabar that the officials are colluding with a contractor to deliver a shoddy job. The Rep, who revealed that he had drawn the attention
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Dr. Idem Etuk Samuel, the owner of Mount Zion Medical Center who was accused of sexually harassing a female minor, was on Thursday, taken to the Federal Neuro Psychiatric Hospital in Calabar after he was arrested. Dr. Etuk was arrested on Thursday by the Cross River State command of the Nigerian Police