By CrossRiverWatch Admin Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari has cut short the four year tenure of the Chairman, Board of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Akin Ricketts. Mr. Ricketts, a former Commissioner of Information in Cross River State was appointed on March 10, 2020 alongside Muhammed Koko, Prof. Idris Abdulkadir and Onari Brown as Executive Directors.
By Ushang Ewa The family of Mrs. Mary Ugbome have petitioned the Inspector General of the Nigerian Police Force, Director General of Nigeria’s secret police, the SSS and the National Human Rights Commission to investigate her sudden disappearance on December 24, 2020. Mrs. Ugbome (nee Stephen Okoi), according to the petition, was last seen at
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Cross River Governor, Ben Ayade has asked the 29 Magistrates who were engaged by the State in 2019 from the private bar to forfeit their two years salary owed them. This was disclosed in a letter obtained by this Newspaper on Tuesday wherein the 29 Magistrates who were recently directed to stop
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The High Court of Cross River State would have gone 417 days without a substantive Chief Judge when Justice Effiom Eyo-Ita served out his tenure in acting capacity at midnight of January 18, 2021. This equates to 13 months or 60 weeks, over 10,000 hours, 600,000 minutes and about 36 million seconds.
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Acclaimed government enforcement agents have been caught on video soliciting for bribe from a taxi driver at the Ika Ika Oqua (Marian) market who allegedly parked wrongly. The agents who bragged, boasted of their might, insisted on receiving a bribe of NGN5,000 from the unidentified driver and could be heard telling the
By Emma Una, Vanguard Newspaper A clash between two rival gang has allegedly left four persons dead at Bakassii Local Government Area in Cross River State. Eyewitnesses said the clash started on Thursday with the killing of one person at Ekpri Ikang and has been raging till Saturday night. A resident of the Bakassi who
By Archibong Jeremiah Cross River has joined the rest of the country to mark the 2021 Armed Forces remembrance day in Calabar, the State capital. The event had the State Governor, Sen. Ben Ayade laid wreath for the fallen heroes of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. See pictures below.
By Sulaimon Salau, Guardian Newspaper The Customs Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone ‘C’, Owerri has intercepted 5,200 live ammunition (cartridges of 30GR 70mm calibre) in Cross River State. The cartridges, said to have been intercepted on “credible and timely intelligence” on December 13, 2020 along Nwezenyi-Ikom Road in Cross River State, were concealed in other