By CrossRiverWatch Admin A crisis appears on the horizon as the Cross River House of Assembly is about beginning work on a bill seeking the establishment of Land Use and Allocation Management Commission (LUAC) to do away with the Land Use Act 1978 which it considers defective. Also, the legislative chamber is to review the
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Press Release Deteriorating Health Condition Of Mr. Agba Jalingo And The Need To Redeploy CP, Austin Agbonlahor. The Association of Cross River Online Journalists – ACROJ, notes with dismay the continuous unlawful detention of the Publisher of CrossRiverWatch, Mr. Agba Jalingo for about eight (8) days now and counting. As the world
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Policy Alert has called on the Nigerian Police to immediately release Agba Jalingo, a journalist and transparency activist who was arrested last week by the Police on the alleged orders of the Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade, for asking questions on the spending of N500m of a State owned microfinance bank.
By Patrick Obia The Chairman, Association of Cross River Online Journalists (ACROJ) Comrade Darlington Edem, has alleged that there are plans by the Government of Cross River State to gage the media in the State, following the recent arrest and detention of four Journalists in Calabar. Mr. Darlington stated this while speaking as a guest
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Nigerian authorities should immediately release publisher Agba Jalingo and halt their harassment of journalists reporting on alleged corruption and other issues of public interest, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. On August 22, in Lagos, Police Officers with Nigeria’s special anti-robbery squad arrested Jalingo, publisher of online news outlet CrossRiverWatch, according to
By Our Reporter The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) have condemned the arrest and detention of a Nigerian journalist, Agba Jalingo for allegedly criticising the Cross River State Government. Jalingo, Editor-in-Chief/Publisher of CrossRiverWatch, was said to have been whisked away from Lagos by men of the Nigeria Police Force on Thursday and has not been
By CrossRiverWatch Admin President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a 16-man new board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, with Dr. Pius Odubu from Edo State as the Chairman. A statement signed by the Permanent Secretary (General Services Office), office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Olusegun Adekunle, on behalf of the SGF,
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Comrade Agba Jalingo, Board of Trustees Chairman, Association of Cross River Online Journalists (ACROJ) and Publisher of CrossRiverWatch has dragged the Nigerian Police Force, Commissioner of Police Cross River State Command and Tami Evelyn Peterside (DCP SCID) to the Federal High Court over his fundamental human rights. In suit number HC/293/2019 Jalingo