By CrossRiverWatch Admin A day-old baby has been found lifeless in a waste bin around the Calabar-Calabar roundabout late Tuesday night. The baby who was already dead when The Parchment reporters arrived at the scene was suspected to have been abandoned there by the mother after delivery close to the Navy reference hospital. A scavenger
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Pastor Usani Uguru, a former Niger Delta Affairs Minister has slightly escaped an assassination attempt in Calabar. The incident happened today, Friday at his residence in State Housing Estate Calabar, the Cross River State capital while the former Minister was driving to catch his flight to Abuja. The assailants, armed with short
By Archibong Jeremiah Over 160 Cameroonian refugee children have received their birth certificates. The certificate is issued by the National Population Commission, with support from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Cross River and Benue States. The information was released yesterday as part of the Cameroonian refugees’ in Nigeria operational update for
By Ekemini Simon, TheMail While Lafarge Africa PLC boasts of a humane environmental policy in her mining operations, this investigation by TheMail unravels the nexus between illegal and unhealthy practices by the company, the government’s gross regulatory failure, and untold hardship in Mfamosing, a solid mineral-rich community in Akamkpa, Cross River State. Idaraobong Udo a
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Governor Benedict Ayade of Cross River State has announced 98 new appointments including a Senior Special Assistant on Abuja legal matters, days leading to the February 26, 2022, legislative by-elections in Cross River State. The list was made public on Tuesday afternoon, in a signed press statement by his deputy spokesman, Linus
By Patrick Obia A Federal High Court sitting in Calabar, the Cross River State capital has awarded three million Naira damages against the Nigerian Navy over the violations of the rights of one Mr. Oto-Obong Peter. Mr. Peter was, alongside several others arrested by naval personnel on May 24th 2020 at Potomas Hotel, Atimbo for
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Dr. Paul Adalikwu, Secretary General (SG) of Maritime Organization of West and Central Africa (MOWCA) has presented his strategic plan for the organization to host country, Côte d’Ivoire in his maiden meeting with the Ivorian Secretary of State for Transportation, Dr. Celestine Doh Serey. Adalikwu, a native of Obudu in Cross River
By Archibong Jeremiah Lead Counsel of Basic Rights Counsel Initiative, BRCI, James Ibor, Esq. has commended Honorable Justice Agness A. Onyebueke of Cross River State High Court, Akamkpa division for sentencing Mr. Anyanime Festus Udo to death by hanging. Justice Onyebueke delivered the judgment in suit number HK/6C/2018 today (Tuesday) afternoon. Mr. Anyanime gruesomely murdered