By Ushang Ewa Government House sources have disclosed to CrossRiverWatch that Governor Ben Ayade hastily swore-in Justice Eyo Effiom Ita to prevent residents and legal practitioners from protesting. The State had been without a Chief Judge for 46 days and following an announcement that residents and legal practitioners will protest, Mr. Ayade had announced that
By Jonathan Ugbal Lawyers and residents protesting the non appointment of a substantive Chief Judge in Cross River say hundreds of cases are currently lying unassigned in the registry of the High Court of the State. The State has gone 46 days without a Chief Judge and concerned lawyers took to the streets of Calabar
By Archibong Jeremiah Ahead of tomorrow’s protest against bad governance, police brutality, poor state of roads, crippling state of the judicial and a host of others, Ben Ayade, Governor of Cross River State has shivered. The Governor who recently was referred to as “poto poto governor” by some indegenes of the State through a release
By Jonathan Ugbal Youths in Yala Local Government Area on Friday commissioned a failed portion of the northern Cross River superhighway as a protest to draw the attention of the government to their plight. They gathered at O’ba community in Okpoma, Yala to protest the poor state of the road which has remained under construction
The Judiciary in Cross River State has been rendered moribund, unnavigable and demented by the brazen rascality of executive and legislative principalities. The Judiciary is the hope of the common man, and an arm of Government well engraved and enshrined in our grundnorm. The executive cum legislative influenced & orchestrated vacancy or vacuum in the
By Deji Elumoye, This Day Newspaper The Senate Minority Leader, Sen. Eyinnaya Abaribe has called on the Federal Government to name the headquarters of the Nigeria Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) after the late ranking Senator Rose Oko, who died in the United Kingdom on March 23, 2020. This is just as the President of the Senate,
By Archibong Jeremiah CrossRiverWatch investigation has revealed that the Cross River State Governor, Sen. Ben Ayade lied about disbursement of 50 million naira only to the Bakassi Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). The investigation also revealed that not all the 52 flats were furnished, only the one used for photo op was fully furnished. It was
By Bassey Inyang, This Day Newspaper Former Leader of the Senate, Victor Ndoma-Egba (SAN), has observed that the National Judicial Council (NJC) will not concede to the demands of the Cross River State Governor, Sen. Ben Ayade, to appoint a junior above his seniors as Chief Judge of the State. Ndoma-Egba’s observation followed the absence