By Ada Wodu, Punch Newspaper Forty-one suspected armed robbers, kidnappers and gangsters have been paraded by the Cross River State Police Command. The suspects were paraded on Wednesday by the State Commissioner of Police, Uche Anozia, at the command headquarters, Calabar. Among the suspects is Francis Jeremiah, who allegedly defiled his nine-year-old step-daughter in Bakassi.
By Edem Edem, Daily Post The Cross River State Government said it will quarantine officials of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 for 14 days and be tested to ascertain their coronavirus status. The Federal Government had on Wednesday said that the NCDC and PTF will visit Cross
By Peter Uzoho, This Day Newspaper The Efik Leadership Foundation (ELF), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has expressed relief with the swift response given to its letter by President Muhammadu Buhari, whom it wrote on Monday to intervene in the “deplorable state of COVID-19 response” in Cross River State. ELF in a statement yesterday by the
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The bayside community in Calabar south local government area of Cross River State hopes to change the negative perception associated with it says Tony Ikpeme, Coordinator of the Baysiders. Baysiders is a development association with membership drawn from people who lived or still reside in the Bayside area which has been associated
By Edem Edem, Daily Post Renewed gang clashes in Calabar, Cross River State have allegedly claimed no fewer than six lives. The two days killing spree which started on Saturday during the burial of a suspected Bakassi Strike Force member extended to Sunday night. A witness who declined giving his identity said, “The face-off started
By Patrick Obia News reaching our newsroom has it that former Head of Department, Mass Communication in Cross River University of Technology (CRUTECH), Dr. Ndoma Brown is dead. Multiple sources including close relations, lecturers as well as students confirmed his demise in the late hours of Monday, 4th May, 2020 after a brief illness. The
By Archibong Jeremiah As COVID-19 bites harder, Government at all level have been on their toes to stamp out the pandemic. Both at the Federal, State and Local Government level, citizen’s participation to Government’s activities in the battle against the deadly coronavirus is on the increase. Some efforts are welcomed while others are greeted with
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Documents have emerged as to the allocation from FAAC to the 18 Local Government Area of Cross River State. So far, the documents are for the month of January and February 2020. See them below.