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
by crossriveratch admin Ahead of 2014 National Sports Festival, the U.J. Esuene stadium has received a boost as after taking delivery of weight gym facilities worth millions of naira yesterday. The facilities were donated at the U.J.Esuene stadium by Senator Helen Esuene on behalf of her family as part of the programme to mark the
by crossriverwatch admin An Arik aircraft with registration number 5N-MJE developed fault at take off at the Margaret Ekpo International Airport Calabar on Saturday afternoon . The flight which was scheduled for takeoff to Abuja at 11 am eventually made effort to take off at about 2 pm but the aircraft could not take off
by crossriverwatch admin The police at the Federal Housing Calabar, the Cross River State capital are investigating the veracity of a report by a house wife, Mrs Ifeyinwa Uquak, alleging that her husband, Pastor Edward Uquak , serially defiled their six year old adopted daughter, Wondaful Faith Uquak. The 17 year old childless marriage between
by Punch There are indications that the Federal Government is concluding arrangements to set up two forward operational bases in Bakassi Local Government Area of Cross River State to check cases of alleged incessant killings, maiming and destruction of properties of Nigerians by the Cameroonian gendarmes. Commander of the 13th Brigade of the Nigerian Army
by crossriverwatch admin It was a gory spectacle on Friday evening at Ehom Village, Akamkpa along the Calabar –Ikom highway when a trailer traveling to Calabar crushed five members of the same family, three females and two males while on their way to Ikom in the central district of the state. The empty trailer, an
by crossriverwatch admin A squabble between two shoe menders Haruna Ibrahim and Aboki Zamfara who claim to be supporters of two European football teams, Chelsea and Manchester United in Calabar the Cross River State capital ended tragically after one struck the other with a plank killing him instantly. Haruna allegedly struck Aboki with a plank
by crossriverwatch admin A thirty year old man, whose name was simply given as Rowland is now in police custody in Calabar while awaiting trial for allegedly raping a thirteen year old girl, Miss Mary (surname withheld) over the weekend. The distraught girl who reported the incident to the police at Akim Police Division which