By Patrick Obia The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has scheduled Cross River Northern Senatorial District, Obudu State constituency and seven other States bye-election to Saturday, October 31, 2020. In a press release issued by the Commission in Abuja on Tuesday, 11 August, 2020 states that, it is as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic
By Ike Uchechukwu, Vanguard Newspaper The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has warmed that 14 Local Government Areas in Cross River are vulnerable to flooding, following the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) and the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NISHA) prediction of May 2020. The Director-General of NEMA, Air Vice Marshall Mohammed Mohammed (Rtd), disclosed this in
By Jonathan Ugbal Mrs Kate Agbor, a resident of Calabar has written to the Commissioner of Police (CP) in Cross River state, Mr. Jimoh Ibrahim disclosing that an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Mr. Stephen Udeme Brown attempted to rape her. This comes Barely a week after CP Ibrahim warned officers against conducts that will
By Ushang Ewa A chairmanship candidate for the August 8th state congress elections of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Cross River, Venatius Ikem has dismissed claims that the two factions in the party have reached a compromise in sharing the party positions. Ikem, in a statement on Monday said that nothing of such had
Since March 2013, when CrossRiverWatch was barely six months old after commencing publishing, we reported a story about how the then Chairman of Obudu Local Government Council, Mr. Emmanuel Ikwen, collected an overdraft of N6million from the Obudu branch of First Bank plc, to pay a Non Governmental Organization in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory
By Chinelo Obogo, The Sun Newspaper A 72-year old male passenger on Air Peace Calabar- Abuja flight P47182, Friday died on board while the flight was airborne. Reliable sources from the Margret Ekpo International Airport, Calabar disclosed that the deceased had a case of paraplegia due to spinal injury since 2019 and had been on
By Ushang Ewa Another Calabar resident, Felix Ekpenyong Ita has been kidnapped. Mr. Ita was kidnapped at about 1:00AM on Saturday morning while returning from a Bachelor’s eve. His abduction happened shortly after Mrs. Nkoyo Udosen was released after paying a ransom valued at N250,000. Sources say Mr. Ita was removed from his vehicle and
By CrossRiverWatch Admin N-Power beneficiaries from the 36 Nigerian States have stormed Abuja over unpaid stipends. The beneficiaries also demanded the immediate removal of minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Sadiya Farouq. They have not been paid their stipend for three months which necessitated the protest Thursday. See pictures below.