by crossriverwatch admin A Child’s Right Organization in Calabar, Basic Rights Counsel Initiative, will tomorrow April 16, 2013 stage a solidarity rally round Calabar to protest what the group call the “insensitivity of the Cross River State government to the plight of abandoned children”. The group had earlier demanded the sack of the Cross River
by crossriverwatch admin The Cross River State Board of Internal Revenue Service has shut down the Federal College of Education Obudu for defaulting in tax remittance to the Cross River State Government. The closure was effected by agents of the Cross River State Internal Revenue Service in line with a High Court ruling presided over
by crossriverwatch admin To teach young women how to build a career and succeed in life, a group of female professionals known as Women in Business and Management on Friday 12th of April, 2013 took time to hold lectures to empower female students of the University of Calabar and University of Uyo. The Campus outreach
by crossriverwatch admin The 1st Boki annual development conference organized by the Boki Think Tank, held in Calabar on Saturday April 13, 2013. The event which was attended by several prominent indigenes of Boki Local Government Area was also graced by the Cross River State Deputy Governor, Barrister Efiok Cobham. In his opening remark, the
by crossriverwatch admin The Executive Chairman of Bakassi Local Government, Dr. Ekpo Ekpo Bassey has said that former Special Adviser to ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo on National Assembly Matters, Senator Florence Ita-Giwa deceived the nation when she allegedly championed the report that 1800 Nigerians were evicted from their former settlement, manhandled and 11 others killed by
by crossriverwatch admin Obioma Imoke, the wife of the Governor of Cross River State has said that there are limitless opportunities that exist for women entrepreneurs who are ready to leverage on the investment opportunities that exist in Cross River State. Obioma made this known recently at the BWI Hilton in Maryland US when she
by crossriverwatch admin Bakassi indigenes ejected from their Efut Obot Ikot village by Cameroonian authorities in March and now sheltering in St. Mark Primary School, Ikot Eyo in Akpabuyo Local Government area are now in a standoff with the Bakassi local government officials who want them to relocate to Ekpri Ikang in Bakassi. To eject
by crossriverwatch admin Another inter communal conflict between the people of Nko in Yakuur Local Government Area and their counterparts in Onyadama in Obubra local Government Area which two years ago claimed many lives and several properties recurred with greater ferocity this last week. The conflict which has been raging since Thursday last week, a