By Efa Sunday The Cross River State chapter of the Organised Labour Union has joined other State unions in the peaceful protest for a NGN30, 000 minimum wage across the streets of Calabar. Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Cross River State, Comrade John Ushie, while addressing members of the union at Mary Slessor
By Jonathan Ugbal, Ushang Ewa and Efa Sunday The gubernatorial candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Cross River State have begun the year with a new campaign strategy of calling each other liars and scammers. Senator John Owan-Enoh of the APC fired the first salvo when he
By Jonathan Ugbal Barely 26 hours into the new year, no fewer than five people are said to be dead after two vehicles collided along Ndidem Usang-Iso road in Calabar, the Cross River State capital in the early hours of Wednesday. The accident involved a red Audi 80 taxi and a privately owned Toyota Camry
By CrossRiverWatch Admin A young lady simply identified as, Miss Vivian, popularly known in Obudu as (China), died in huge flames this afternoon after a mob lighted her over her alleged role in the stealing of a motorcycle . China has also been accused of complicity in the murder of one Mr. Peter Akikieye, a
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Former Senate Leader and senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Cross River state, Senator Ndoma Egba has said that the PDP government short changed the state in the 16 years it governed the country, depriving it of 76 oil well and the Bakassi peninsula. Senator Ndoma Egba also said
By Ushang Ewa The Obudu Traditional Rulers Council has written a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Paul Adah notifying him of it’s intent to confer him with a traditional title. The title is in “recognition of your enormous contribution to the development of Obudu local government area,” a letter signed by the
By CrossRiverWatch Admin A House of Representatives adhoc committee set up to investigate the legality and modus operandi of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel on Asset Recovery, has called for the prosecution of the chairman of the panel, Okoi Obono-Obla. The chairman of the ad hoc committee, Aliyu Pategi, who laid the report before the
By Ushang Ewa Information reaching CrossRiverWatch suggests that a former National Publicity Secretary of the PDP and 2019 gubernatorial aspirant of the All Progressives Congress APC, Mr. Venatius Ikem, may likely return to the PDP in the coming week. Mr. Ikem defected to the All Progressives Congress in 2016 and declared his intention to run