By Edima Frank Soldiers attached to the Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta code-named Operation Pulo Shield in Ikang, Bakassi Local Government Area, today had an encounter with a notorious group of Sea Pirates known as Pioneer Security Force. The group specializes in kidnapping , hijacking of boats, killing and carting away valuables
By CrossRiverWatch admin Less than 24 hours to the March 28 presidential poll, Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba (SAN), has urged Nigerians to vote for President Goodluck Jonathan and his deputy, Namadi Sambo, based on verifiable achievements. Senator Ndoma-Egba also urged the people of Cross River State and indeed, all Nigerians, to vote massively for Jonathan
By CrossRiverWatch admin The political base of the PDP candidate for the Obudu/Obanlikwu/Bekwara Federal Constituency, Barrister Legor Idagbo, swelled yesterday with the decision of former spokesman of the ruling PDP, Barrister Venatius Ikem to join forces with the Bekwara born politician in Saturday’s election. The joining of forces by the duo is perceived by many
By Our Correspondent The Cross River State Government has dismissed a newspaper report which puts the state’s total debt profile at N400 Billion as fiction. The government also described the report which claims the state is the most indebted in the country as misleading and false. A statement issued in Calabar on Monday and signed
By Our Correspondent Hausa community resident in Cross River State, yesterday declared their support for all the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, candidates including Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan in the Saturday Presidential and National Assembly elections. The position of the group was made known during an interactive town hall meeting with Governor Liyel Imoke, PDP candidates
By Archibong Jeremiah Members of Partnership Opportunities for Women Empowerment Realization, POWER, through Political Advancement for Women, PPA4W have given financial support to some 17 female candidates contesting in the forthcoming general election in the state. The support which cuts across all political parties and offices both at state and national level ranges from fifty
By Aplefe Ojong CrossRiverWatch has authoritatively gathered that the Labor Party candidate for the House of Representatives for Calabar South/Akpabuyo/Bakassi Federal Constituency who was recently released by his captors was seriously brutalized by the kidnappers. A CrossRiverWatch source who paid a visit to his Ekorinim home reports that Hon. Edem was inflicted with several injuries
By Aplefe Ojong The dust raised by the memo issued by the Director General, of Cross River State Bureau of Public Private Partnership, Francis Ntamu requesting key stakeholders to a meeting with the bureau and the prospective investor interested in the Cross River State Newspaper Corporation, publishers of the Nigerian and Weekend Chronicle today Tuesday,