by crossriverwatch admin The police in Calabar have asked the wife of a Vehicle Inspection Officer, VIO who disappeared on his way to work on the 15th of May, 2014 to buy an ‘investigation tracking machine’ worth N450,000 for the police to facilitate their investigation into the disappearance of her husband. CrossRiverWatch had in May,
by crossriverwatch admin As criticisms continue to trail the approval by the Cross River State House of Assembly for the government to raise a N40b Bond, the governor has explained that the Bond is not to raise fresh loans but to renegotiate the existing debt and spread the repayment period over a reasonable time and
by crossriverwatch admin The President of the National Association of Cross River State Students, World Wide, Comrade Philomina Agweye has taken the message of sensitization on the prevalence of Ebola virus to tertiary institutions across the state. The recent exercise saw the President of the Union visiting the University of Calabar; Cross River University of
by crossriverwatch admin News reports of our Governor getting approval from the Cross River State House of Assembly to raise a bond for the sum of N40bn to finance various projects of the state government are thoroughly alarming. 2. Ordinarily, taking a Bond or other loan to finance projects is routine in government. But juxtaposed
by crossriverwatch admin Tragedy hit the University of Calabar yesterday when the body of a middle aged woman identified to be one of the business women on campus was found lifeless in the students’ center of the university around noon. The shocking incident dragged the entire security personnel of the institution to the scene. The
by crossriverwatch admin The United Cement Company of Nigeria Limited (UniCem) has concluded arrangements to bring President Jonathan to Cross River state for the first time since his election to perform the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the company’s N84 billion, 2.5 metric tonnes cement production line. The ceremony is expected to be performed
by crossriverwatch admin The appeal by Congolese football officials that their September 6 match against the Super Eagles be relocated from Nigeria owing to fears concerning the outbreak of the dreaded Ebola Virus has been turned down by the Africa football ruling body, CAF. CAF in statement on its official website said it has not
by crossriverwatch admin The plight of the people of Bakassi is not just the unjust fate of dispossession of their ancestral land by the whims of international politics, even the road to the community is a telling tale of a people who have been earmarked abject neglect if not extinction. These are pictures taken by