By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Centre (RULAAC) has called on the Police to immediately release Agba Jalingo, publisher of CrossRiverWatch. According to the NGO, “From 22 to 30 August, it is 8 days since operatives allegedly of Intelligence Response Team (IRT) seized Mr. Agba Jalingo, Editor in Chief and Publisher
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Nigerian authorities should immediately release publisher Agba Jalingo and halt their harassment of journalists reporting on alleged corruption and other issues of public interest, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. On August 22, in Lagos, Police Officers with Nigeria’s special anti-robbery squad arrested Jalingo, publisher of online news outlet CrossRiverWatch, according to
By Our Reporter International Press Center (IPC) has denounced the growing crackdown on freedom of expression following the continuing molestation of journalists and the Media by security agencies. In a press release by the Association of Cross River Online Journalists – ACROJ dated August 22, 2019 Mr. Agba Jalingo, Editor-in-Chief/Publisher of CrossRiverWatch was criminally whisked
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Press Release Gentlemen of the press, at about 4:25pm today, 22/08/2019, men of the Nigerian Police identified to as Intelligence Response Team (IRT), in a commando style, invaded the privacy of one of us, Mr. Agba Jalingo, Editor-in-Chief/Publisher of CrossRiverWatch and criminally whisked him away. We have been reliably informed that the
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Details have emerged how men of the Federal Special Anti Robbery Squad arrested the Chairman of the African Action Congress in Cross River State, Mr. Agba Jalingo after harassing staff in his wife’s office. Mr. Jalingo, a critic of the Cross River State Government was arrested around 2:00PM on Thursday in his
By Jonathan Ugbal ‘Humanity’ is the theme for the 2019 edition of the Carnival Calabar and Festivals. It was unveiled moments ago by Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State where he said there was need for people to humane in their activities in order to have a better society. The unveiling of the theme
By Efa Sunday The Cross River State Governor, Senator Ben Ayade has been tasked by a Cross River youth, simply identified as Rosemond Edem to invest in the educational sector in the State. Miss Rosemond Edem made this call on her twitter handle, where she lamented the menace created by youths as a result of
Today is International Youth Day #InternationalYouthDay, #IYD2019. The theme for this year’s event is #TransformingEducation. Today is a day to draw attention to the bedrock of development (education). Quality education is the (open) secret of developed economies. The burden of future development usually lies on the younger generation. If they are not prepared for that