By Jonathan Ugbal Listen To The Report Justice Bassey Ebuta of the High Court of Cross River State on Thursday failed to deliver judgment in a suit seeking to determine whether the collection of fees and levies from pupils in basic education classes at public-owned institutions in the State is wrong as enshrined in the
By Ogar Monday List To The Report As the activities of illegal forest loggers continue unabated in Cross River State, data by the Global Forest Watch, an open-source web application to monitor global forests in near real-time, shows that last year, Cross River State lost 11,800 hectares. Further analysis of the data showed that Akamkpa
By Great Ozozoyin, DailyPost Listen To The Report The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has lamented the alleged refusal of Taraba, Zamfara, Cross River, and Abia states to implement the approved national minimum wage of N30,000. This was lucidly demonstrated today at the ongoing 110 Session of the International Labour Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, when the
By Okechukwu Nnodim and Opeoluwani Akintayo, Punch Newspaper Listen To The Report Figures obtained on Monday from the Nigeria Electricity System Operator, an arm of the Federal Government’s Power Transmission Company, showed that the national electricity grid crashed from a peak of 3,703 megawatts to as low as 9MW on Sunday. Nigeria witnessed widespread blackout
By Angela Nkwo-Akpolu, Leadership Listen To The Report Fifteen young males were last weekend, arrested by the Ebubeagu Security Outfit in Ekwe community in Isu Local Government Area of Imo State. Reports suggest they were excavating sand at the Njaba River while the Palace of the Traditional Ruler, Eze Nicholas Ibekwe was also invaded and
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Listen To The Report The African Center for Leadership, Strategy, and Development, Center LSD, has called on the Federal Government of Nigeria to immediately institutionalize the Open Government Partnership, OGP to increase transparency and trust in governance. The Executive Director of the Center LSD, Mr. Monday Osasah, made the call in a
By Patrick Abang, National Accord Newspaper Listen To The Report The remains of the late Cross River State Chairman of Sports Writers Association of Nigeria, SWAN, Comrade Albert Archibong Andinam (JP) has been laid to rest in Calabar, the State capital. The late sports enthusiast suffered from an ailment while receiving treatment at the Navy
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Listen To The Report Mr. Charles Oberu, suspected to be the mastermind behind the recently circulated sexually explicit video of a nurse-in-training, Ms. Gracious John, has been arraigned. He was arraigned on Thursday 8 June 2022 at the Federal High Court, Calabar. The charges were amended and the case was adjourned to