by crossriverwatch admin A 20 year old boy, Godwin Odu has been arrested by the police in Calabar for allegedly stabbing Boniface Odinaka, a student of Army Day Secondary School, 13 Amphibious Brigade, Eburutu Barracks, Calabar to death. Odinaka who is the Labor Prefect of the school was attacked and killed after school hours by
by crossriverwatch admin An education activist, Dr. Raphael Ogar Oko has described the ongoing industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, as inimical to the upbringing of Nigerian student s and has called on the Ministry of Education and the Nigerian University Commission, NUC, to resort to an alternative system of education
by crossriverwatch admin Suspected cultists that were killed and those arrested recently in the clash between the KKK and Vikings Confraternity are not students of the Federal College of Education Obudu. Reacting to the killings and subsequent arrests of the cultists whom earlier publications had claimed were students of the school, Dr. Eugene Ibili ,
by crossriverwatch admin Modalities have been concluded for University of Calabar (UNICAL) to commence courses in Engineering and Pharmacy to meet the critical needs of the state and the country in those departments. Pro-chancellor and Chairman, UNICAL Governing Council, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, disclosed this when the council paid a courtesy call on Governor Liyel Imoke
by crossriverwatch Admin A one month entrepreneurship and vocational education for selected technical and science colleges across the six goe political zones has ended in calabar the cross river state capital with a call to states and local governments to embrace vocational training in all secondary schools.. Minister of Education Professor Rufai made the call
by crossriverwatch admin CrossRiverWatch has reliably gathered that the Cross River State Command of the Nigeria Police is under undue pressure from powerful sources in the State Government to abandon the ongoing certificate forgery investigation against the State Commissioner for Information, Chief. Akin Rickett. The State Criminal Investigation Department SCID, Diamond Hill had in March,
by crossriverwatch admin The ongoing seven days strike by the three unions of the University of Calabar over unpaid allowances has paralyzed academic and business activities in the University. When CrossRiverWatch visited the campus Monday, the few students who were seen around said there were returning home because “nothing is going on in campus as
by crossriverwatch admin Gunmen last night gunned down Mr. Emmanuel Ador, a staff of the Federal College of Education, Obudu and made away with his Toyota Camry car. Mr. Emmanuel Ador who is also a timber dealer in Obudu was said to have been assailed by the gunmen who shot him on the leg in