By CrossRiverWatch Admin Cross River Governor, Benedict Ayade has said that all public examinations conducted by the National Examinations Council (NECO) are now made compulsory for all public schools in the State reports the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). Public schools in Cross River only register students for the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) examinations
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
By Rauf Oyewole, WikkiTimes Adamu Yusuf Misau became a widower on August 5, 2020, at the age of 43 when his wife died during childbirth in Bauchi metropolis. His wife, Zaliha Yahaya Muhammad, was taken to the State Low-Cost Primary Health Centre where she had a stillbirth and died of complications afterwards, he said. Adamu
By Vincent Ufuoma, ICIR The National Judiciary Council (NJC) has barred three judges of the Federal High Court from promotion within the next three to five years for granting conflicting ex-parte orders. NJC’s National Director of Information Soji Oye made this known in a statement on Thursday. According to Oye, the decision was the outcome of
By Jonathan Ugbal The Cross River Microfinance Bank on Thursday closed its case in suit number HC/296/2019 before Justice Maurice Eneji of the High Court of Cross River State, after presenting only one witness in a libel suit against CrossRiverWatch, and it’s publisher, Agba Jalingo. The bank is seeking, among other things, NGN2 billion as
By Sahara Reporters The Governor of Cross River State, Ben Ayade has said the anti-open grazing law which some southern states have passed based on the resolution of the Southern Governors’ Forum might lead to war in the country. Ayade said such laws, without taking into consideration the concerns of nomadic herdsmen and farmers, might
By Elijah Ojonicko Akoji, WikkiTimes This investigation reveals a mind-boggling web of corruption around multi-million naira contracts for the construction of solar-powered and hand pump boreholes in Yobe North Senatorial District, awarded to so-called briefcase contractors who did not do the projects after collecting the money. In Yobe North where Nigeria’s Senate President Ahmad Lawan comes
By Daniel Bernard, HumAngle Trademore estate in Lugbe, a suburb in Abuja, North-Central Nigeria has experienced devastating floods for years with no end in sight despite government knowledge. The negligence of government officials and some residents of Trademore estate located at Lugbe, a suburb in Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has caused repeated flooding; claiming