By Patrick Obia “Reject any activity – cult, yahoo-yahoo and other unlawful associations that will take you out of your dreams,” said the Vice Chancellor of the University of Cross River State (UNICROSS), Professor Augustine Angba, Wednesday at the 19th matriculation ceremony of the varsity in Calabar. “Refuse to listen to those staff and students
By Ike Uchechukwu, Vanguard Former members of Bakassi Strike Force, BSF, numbering about 150 in the early hours of Monday blocked the entrance to the Cross River Governor’s office in protest of unpaid allowances and the government’s inability to fulfil the MoU it signed with them since 2018. Vanguard gathered that it took the intervention
By Bankole Abe, ICIR In an attempt to appease the Ogoni people of Rivers State for long years of deprivation, injustice and neglect, President Muhammadu Buhari has said that his administration is prepared to give a posthumous pardon to late activist and playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others hanged by late dictator, Sani Abacha. The
By CrossRiverWatch Admin A truck conveying products from the LaFarge HolCim plant in Mfamosing has crushed a family four in Akansoko junction of Akpabuyo Local Government Area of southern Cross River State. The event happened this evening. The family was atop a motorcycle. “A man, his wife and two children were crushed to death by
By Ushang Ewa Ahead of the planned meeting between medical interns and the management of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH) slated for noon today, the premises is currently surrounded by security personnel. The interns are owed nearly half a billion Naira for their salaries spanning a period of 11 months. Several meetings and
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Several Cross Riverians on Tuesday joined millions across the globe to celebrate Id-El Maulud with the Muslim Ummah. Cross River Governor, Benedict Ayade; former lawmaker, John Owan-Enoh and federal lawmaker, Legor Idagbo urged the Muslim Ummah to imbibe the virtues of Prophet Mohammed (PBUH). In a statement by his spokesman, Christian Ita,
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Chairman of the Cross River Traditional Ruler’s Council, Etinyin Etim Okon Edet has said the monarchs will change the face of politics in the State. Etinyin Etim, who is also the Paramount Ruler of Bakassi Local Government Area said that the monarchs were changing the
By Jonathan Ugbal There has been an explosion at the Eburutu barracks of the Nigerian Army in Calabar, the Cross River State capital. It is unclear what actually exploded but it is said to have shaken buildings nearby with the window panes and ceilings of houses in the golf view estate shattered. The explosions began