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WikkiTimes Insists Its Investigative Story On Adamawa Streetlight Racketeering Is Credible, Challenges FG To Provide Evidence

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January 11, 2022

By CrossRiverWatch Admin WikkiTimes, an investigative news outlet has knocked the Nigerian Presidency over its statement denying allegations of stealing over a billion naira, through an imaginary streetlight project in Adamawa State. The online media challenged the presidency to prove its investigation wrong by producing contrary evidence to what it unearthed. The story revealed how

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Cross River Communities Where Girls Are Used As Collateral, Turned Into Sex Slaves

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January 10, 2022

There is an odd practice among the Becheve tribe in Cross River State whereby girls, sometimes as young as four years old, are used as collateral for loans their parents obtained from more illustrious kinsmen. Unfortunately, the innocent girls are often turned into sex slaves in addition to performing other chores for which they are

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How Corruption, Negligence Led To UNICROSS Students Inhabiting Abandoned NDDC Model Hostel

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January 8, 2022

By Victoria Effiong Unless an urgent action is taken, the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) 500 unit prototype hostel at Cross River State University (UNICROSS) could soon become a disaster. It is a death trap for students living in it. The hostel, awarded in December 2004, was abandoned by Directed Services Limited, a local firm that

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Investigation: How Imaginary Streetlights Were Allegedly Used To Steal Over A Billion Naira Under Buhari’s Nose

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January 7, 2022

By Elijah Ojonicko Akoji, Wikkitimes Four out of the five contractors that received over N1 billion for the installation of solar streetlights in Adamawa State are the same individuals but the projects were allegedly never executed, according to an investigation by WikkiTimes. President Muhammadu Buhari’s senior special assistant on Sustainable Development Goals, Princess Adejoke Orelope-Adedulire,

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How N13 Million Went Into Licensing ‘Ghost’ Ultra-Modern Fuel Station In Cross River

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January 5, 2022

By Patrick Obia In 2015, immediately after he was sworn in as the governor of Cross River State, Sen. Ben Ayade, unveiled a plan to build and operate an ultra-modern filling station called Petrocross. The ultra-modern fuel station, according to the governor, was to boost the State’s revenue and transform the State that is hitherto

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How Multi-Million Naira Constructed Skill Acquisition Centers Were Left To Ruin In Bauchi

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January 5, 2022

By Idris Kamal Ibrahim, WikiTimes In 2019, the federal government, through the Federal Ministry of Employment, Labour, and Productivity, released about N20.8 million for the construction of a skills acquisition center bungalow in Gamawa, Bauchi State. Data obtained from Open Treasury Portal, an open contracting site of the Federal Government of Nigeria, indicates that G-Men

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How Trancorp Hotels Calabar Sacked 8 For Leading Protest Against Abuses By Management

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December 20, 2021

By Archibong Jeremiah For leading a peaceful protest against management rascality, abuses and demand for improved working conditions, Transcorp Hotels Calabar allegedly sacked eight staff. After the peaceful protest Kanu Okpo, Fred Ogar, Ezra Osim, Lawrence Ebony, Stella Etim, Bassey Ediba, Geraldine Itoe and Abel Eshiet reportedly became targets of abuse of power from the

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Cross River SUBEB Colludes With Contractors To Divert School Project To Cover Up Alleged Corruption

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December 1, 2021

By Patrick Obia In Cross River State’s 2019 budget, over N145 million was earmarked for new classrooms at PCN Primary School Ikot Ishie in Calabar Municipality while more than 7 million was budgeted for a motorised borehole in the school under the model school project of the State. The contracts were eventually awarded through the