By Chris Njoku Every morning by 6:AM, as the day begins to unfold, Monday Iyamba, a commercial minibus driver in the 8 Miles area of Calabar, diligently cleans his vehicle and performs routine checks before setting out for his daily work to survive. Behind this disciplined routine lies deep anxiety that raises blood pressure, not
By Lukman Abdulmalik, The Whistler By day, the city’s main arteries hum with commerce and prayer. By night, another economy comes alive, quiet, nimble, and dangerous. At about 8 p.m. on Tuesday night, on a busy roadside of Sabon Titi, Kumbotso LGA, a young man (Abdullahi Sadiq), in a faded hoodie, pauses beside a parked
By Aminu Adamu, WikkiTimes Malam Mukhtar Abubakar Kanan Haki, a farmer in his early 40s from Daudawa community in Faskari LGA of Katsina State said he leased three hectares of land for ₦1.2 million in his quest to remain in farming business. He said, after incurring other heavy investment on seeds, fertiliser and labour; soldiers
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Residents of Mammy Market, the civilian settlement tucked inside Eburutu Barracks in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, say soldiers often arrive in the “deadly hours” of midnight, sometimes 1 am – 2 am, banging on doors with sticks and rods, dragging young and old from sleep, and hauling them to the
By Lukman Abdulmalik, Stallion Times From a beacon of hope for young Nigerians who had dreams of a future in aquaculture, the School of Fisheries now lies in ruins with its classrooms buried under heaps of sand and the foundations exposed to the sun. What was supposed to nurture knowledge has been transformed into a
By Ogar Monday The truck lurches violently as its front wheels slam into yet another crater on Ogbuma Junction section of the Ogoja–Katsina Ala road. Inside, Musa Adamu grips the dashboard as the load of yams he is moving to Abakaliki in Ebonyi State, shifts dangerously. He’s been on this road for fifteen years, but
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Nigeria Police, Zone 6 Command Headquarters in Calabar, have commenced investigation into allegations by the Cross River State Chief Vehicle Inspection Officer CVIO, Engineer Ojen Okoi Ayang, that a staff of the State owned media outfit CRBC, named Ursula Onah Agbor, defrauded him of a total of N6,580,000 (six million five
By SaharaReporters A review by SaharaReporters of the Cross River State budget performance document for the first half of 2025 shows that N8 billion was allocated for the construction of a new Assembly complex. This figure exceeds the budgetary provisions for several critical sectors. For example, water facilities are projected to cost N5.7 billion, while