By Our Reporters As Nigerians get ready to cast their votes in today’s presidential and national assembly elections, our reporters across the 18 LGAs observe that materials and personnel are yet to arrive at many polling units. At INEC headquarters in Calabar, there is a heavy security display – armed army men of the Nigerian
By Ogar Monday In Marian, Calabar Municipal, just before the street to the Cross River State secretariat of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, is a building awash with the 2023 election advertisement of party candidates of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. The building is the office of Cross River State Infrastructural Safety and
By Patrick Obia Basic Right Council Initiative (BRCI), a non-profit making organization based in Calabar, Cross River State has trained over 18 observers for the 2023 general elections. Held at the State Ministry of Justice, Calabar, participants were drawn from various communities in three local government areas to serve as local observers for the February
By Patrick Obia The Cross River State Police Command has assured the citizens of an adequate and conducive atmosphere devoid of molestation and other security threats as they march to the polls for the presidential and National Assembly elections. The Command gave the assurance in a press release made available by the Command’s Police Public
By Aminu Adamu, Wikki Times Barely one week before Nigeria’s general election, residents of rural communities in Zamfara State still live between hope and fear as insecurity that has over the years rendered thousands homeless threatens peaceful polls. “Just a few days ago, militants killed people on their way to Bagega Market, including my best
By CrossRiverWatch Admin CrossRiverWatch Civic Space Editor, Jonathan Ugbal was on Wednesday attacked by agents of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP in Calabar Municipality while covering a protest by youths of the Ikot Abasi Obori community. He was beaten by agents of the PDP outside a campaign office used by two of the party’s candidates –
I have consistently argued that Nigeria’s stunted development is not entirely the fault of criminal politicians. The electorates have been their major accomplices: they condone and reinforce the spectacular failures of these men and women, and even idolize them in the face of their misrule and misappropriation of public funds. This leaves us in a
Hon. Daniel Asuquo (Dansuki): The Dent In An Otherwise Pristine Image Of The Labour Party. A cautionary exposé by Daniel Ekpenyong. I am compelled to write this pique letter because it will be a great disservice to sit back and watch a looming disaster happen without sounding the alarm to alert others oblivious to the