By Jonathan Ugbal Lawyers and residents in Calabar booed the Cross River Deputy Governor, Professor Ivara Esu when he tried to address them over the issues bedeviling the State’s judiciary. The State has been without a Chief Judge for 46 days and legal practitioners as well as residents took the streets on Monday to protest
By Jonathan Ugbal Residents and lawyers in Cross River State are currently protesting against the vacancy in the position of the Chief Judge of the High Court of the State. Numbering over 50, they have blocked the entrance of the judiciary headquarters stopping those who are trying to gain entry. The crisis rocking the judiciary
By Jonathan Ugbal and Patrick Obia The #EndPoliceBrutality campaign has entered day 3 in Calabar the Cross River State capital. See picture of the ongoing protest.
The Judiciary in Cross River State has been rendered moribund, unnavigable and demented by the brazen rascality of executive and legislative principalities. The Judiciary is the hope of the common man, and an arm of Government well engraved and enshrined in our grundnorm. The executive cum legislative influenced & orchestrated vacancy or vacuum in the
By Jonathan Ugbal and Patrick Obia
By Deji Elumoye, This Day Newspaper The Senate Minority Leader, Sen. Eyinnaya Abaribe has called on the Federal Government to name the headquarters of the Nigeria Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) after the late ranking Senator Rose Oko, who died in the United Kingdom on March 23, 2020. This is just as the President of the Senate,
By Patrick Obia Coalitions of Civil Society Actions on COVID-19 in Cross River State, has demanded for a detailed summary of COVID-19 donations and expenditures from the State Government. The coalitions made the request in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act, 2011. Its Coordinator, Adim Gabriel in a letter to the State Ministry of
By Jonathan Ugbal and Maxwell Effiong Senator Sandy Onoh (PDP, CR Central) has chided Governor Ben Ayade of and his deputy, Professor Ivara Esu over the state of the library complex headquarters in Calabar. According to Onoh, the experience of Cross Riverians especially as it regards the State Library complex is not one that befits