By Patrick Obia The President of the Post Graduate School Government (PGSG) of the University of Calabar, Mr Pius Undie says the accusation labeled against him of misappropriating Five hundred thousand naira (N500,000.00) was conspiracy “cooked up to destroy his reputation”. Mr.Pius Undie, is accused of misappropriating funds belonging to the students body amounting to
By Philip Agba & Kelvin Ololo The issue of Gender Based Violence (GBV) has become one among other forms of social vices happening everyday in the society. Though very few of these cases are reported, many have remained covered leaving actors getting away as the result of fear of stigmatization by abused persons. This has
By Our Reporter Director General of the Cross River State Rural Development Agency, Ntufam Okon Nyong Owuna, has been dragged before the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for allegedly diverting a total of N1.150 billion of funds meant for the State Government for his private use. Others indicted in the petition are the Director
By CrossRiverWatch Admin A group under the aegis of Cross River State Young Professionals have hailed the appointment of Prince Goddy Jedy-Agba, OFR as Minister of the Federal Republic by President Muhammadu Buhari. Representatives of the group in different remarks today, described Jedy’s appointment as one of the best decisions by the President adding that
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Cross River State Governor, Senator Ben Ayade has accused the Cross River State Chairman of the African Action Congress (AAC) and Publisher of CrossRiverWatch, Agba Jalingo of blackmailing his Government for personal reasons. Speaking yesterday (Tuesday) while standing beside his Abia State counterpart, Okezie Ikpeazu, during the Calabar Green Carnival, an exercise
By Margaret John We The People (WTP), a civil society organization has revealed that children are being given out to prostitution for as little as 100 naira in Calabar, the Cross River State capital. This revelation was made during a stakeholders town hall meeting organized by We The People on Tuesday at Channel View Hotel
By jonathan Ugbal The ministerial nominee from Cross River State, Prince Goddy Jedy Agba was on Monday screened by the Senate. Mr. Agba, a former top gun at the state owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation was drilled with questions relating to the oil sector where he proffered solutions to the issues of fuel subsidy, local
By CrossRiverWatch Admin “Says minister-nominee is medically and mentally fit.” All Progressives Congress (APC) Grassroots Youth for Change has urged the Senate to ignore what it described as “malicious media reports” against former Group General Manager (GGM), Crude Oil Marketing Division (OMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and minister-nominee, Mr. Goddy Jeddy-Agba, saying