By Our Reporter The Cross River State Universal Basic Education Board (CR-SUBEB) has once again escaped the hands of fraudsters after an attempt to defraud the Board’s UBE Matching Grant account of N1.3billion was recently uncovered by the outgoing Chairman, Dr. Stephen Odey. The suspect who claimed to be Prof. Ofeimun forged the signature of
By CrossRiverWatch Admin From over 11,000 applications, the US Embassy in Nigeria has selected three (3) young leaders from Cross River State to represent Nigeria, as part of fifty-six (56) delegates to the Mandela Washington Fellowship from June 17 to August 1, 2019. The fellows are Timothy Undiandeye, Hannah Bassey Essien, and Ako Eyo Oku.
By Jonathan Ugbal The wife of Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State, Dr. Linda Ayade on Monday cautioned youths against indulging in substance abuse during an interactive session with secondary school students as part of activities to mark the 2019 edition of the Children’s Day celebration. The session had students from four secondary schools;
By Kelvin Ololo The former Head of the Department of Mass Communication in Cross River University of Technology (CRUTECH) Rev. Felix Ajoku has called on the Acting Vice Chancellor of the institution, Professor Akon Joshua to get rid of lecturers that indulge in sorting, trade on sex for marks and humiliation of students. The Clergyman
By Margaret John and Philip Agba The Managing Editor of CrossRiverWatch, Mr. Jeremiah Archibong has charged intending journalists to get acquainted with Information Technology (IT) stating that “it’s a prerequisite to journalists in training and practice, it’s the future and our selling point in the New Media.” Mr. Archibong gave the charge while receiving students
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Students of the Faculty of Law University of Calabar emerged winners of the 8th Africa Regional round of Manfred Lachs International Space Law Moot Court Competition. The two days competition which held in Pretoria, South Africa on the 9th and 10th May, 2019 had selected law students from Africa countries. Representing the
By CrossRiverWatch Admin A gangster Popularly known as “Last Born” has been gunned down by rival group last night at Mayne Avenue by Ekpo Abasi in Calabar South, Cross River State. Last Born whose biological name was given as “Etim” was killed by a yet to be identified rival group. This is coming just when
By Efa Sunday The Cross River State premier private University, Arthur Jarvis, today matriculated Seventy-One (71) students into the faculty of Natural and Applied Science, One hundred and Ninety (119) into Faculty of Humanities, Management and Social Science, Forty-Eight (48) into Basic Medical Science and Thirty-Seven (37) students into the Faculty of Law. Speaking while