By Our Correspondent United States President, Barack Obama, has said history showed that a free press remained a critical foundation for prosperous, open, and secure societies, allowing citizens to access information and hold their governments accountable, NAN reports. He said this in a statement issued by the White House in New York on Monday to
By Laureta Akpan CrossRiverWatch has reliably gathered that Policemen who were involved in the kidnap of a Lebanese national over the weekend have been rounded up by detectives from the State Criminal Investigation Department, Calabar and are now detained at the police headquarters, Diamond Hill, Calabar. The unidentified Lebanese was said to have been kidnapped
By Our Correspondent Erstwhile Cross River Commissioner for Works, Mr. Legor Idagbo has applauded the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and the Leader of the party in the state, Governor Liyel Imoke for the successful conduct of the Ad-hoc Ward delegates congresses in the state. The former commissioner who debunked reports that the
By Christiana Ukung Alawa/Jeremiah Archibong Despite the repeated claims by government at all levels that the people of Bakassi have been resettled and the Cross River State Government position on the issue which now revolves around payment of compensation by the federal government in perpetuity to the state, CrossRiverWatch visited the Bakassi Resettlement Camp at
By Ungwugyan Ado in Abuja/Aplefe Ojong in Calabar Prince Goddy Jedy Agba, Cross River 2015 PDP governorship aspirant has informed CrossRiverWatch in an exclusive chat that he will finally be arriving Calabar on Thursday, November 6, 2014 after a protracted period of absence. The former NNPC boss, while speaking to CrossRiverWatch in his Abuja home
By Aplefe Ojong The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Ad-hoc Ward Congresses to pick delegates that will vote at the party’s primaries that will elect the party’s flag bearers in all the elective positions from the state to the federal levels were carried out throughout the country last Saturday. In Cross River State, CrossRiverWatch discovered that
By Laureta Akpan Unless another aspirant takes advantage of the extension of time of purchase of nomination forms by the ruling PDP to November 7, 2014 to join the nine who have already purchased the substantive nomination forms to contest the 2015 governorship race in Cross River State, the ground can be said to be
Empowerment is not the occasional display of items to party men and women to collect, but the full engagement with programs that have the potentials to transform lives and foster new circumstances. Three(3) years of qualitative representation and meaningful Job Empowerment to job seekers in my Constituency with University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, UCTH, Federal