By Jonathan Ugbal The former Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on prosecution, Chief Okoi Obono-Obla has broken silence on allegations that he had a hand in the removal of his kinsman, Justice Walter Onnoghen as the Chief Justice of Nigeria. Obono-Obla, a lawyer hails from Ugep in Yakurr Local Government Area while Justice Onnoghen
By Unini Chioma, The Nigeria Lawyer (TNL) The President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr. Olumide Akpata has described the judiciary saga in Cross Rivers State as one undermining the independence of the judiciary because of the failure of the State to confirm Hon. Justice Akon Ikpeme as the substantive Chief Judge, thereby creating a
By Emmanuel Addeh, This Day Newspaper Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) yesterday put the amount the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) shared among the Federal, State, Local Government Areas and other statutory recipients in the first half of 2020 at N3.879 trillion. A breakdown of the disbursements, according to a statement signed by the
By Fred Ezeh, The Sun Newspaper Cross River State Government has disclosed that revenue from farming, particularly cocoa, has replaced oil revenue as the major source of Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) used for infrastructural development and other needs of the State. The State Government explained that since the Supreme Court judgment that ceded 76 oil
By Jonathan Ugbal The National Chairman of the African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore has presented the party’s flag to its candidate for the October 31, 2020 senatorial bye-election in Northern Cross River, Dr. Dino Magam. The presentation was done in Abuja shortly after the party submitted Magam’s details to the Independent National Electoral Commission as
By Archibong Jeremiah Judicial activities in Nigeria’s South South Cross River State, has been crippled for seven (7) days now because of the vacuum in the office of the Chief Judge of the State. Justice Maurice Eneji’s tenure as the acting Chief Judge of the State expired on Wednesday, September 2, 2020. Findings revealed that
By Agency Report The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Medical Women Association of Nigeria (MWAN), Cross River Chapter and other women organisations on Tuesday embarked on a peaceful protest against kidnapping in the state. The other women groups include International Federation of Women Lawyers, Holy Child Old Girls Association, Nigerian Women of
By Jonathan Ugbal Dr. Ikongshul Alorye, a House Officer in the Department of Accident and Emergency of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH) was kidnapped on Monday in Calabar, the Cross River State capital. This is happening less than a week after. Dr. Vivien Otu, kidnapped in the last week of August, was released.