By CrossRiverWatch Admin A group under the aegis of Cross River State Young Professionals have hailed the appointment of Prince Goddy Jedy-Agba, OFR as Minister of the Federal Republic by President Muhammadu Buhari. Representatives of the group in different remarks today, described Jedy’s appointment as one of the best decisions by the President adding that
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Cross River State Governor, Senator Ben Ayade has accused the Cross River State Chairman of the African Action Congress (AAC) and Publisher of CrossRiverWatch, Agba Jalingo of blackmailing his Government for personal reasons. Speaking yesterday (Tuesday) while standing beside his Abia State counterpart, Okezie Ikpeazu, during the Calabar Green Carnival, an exercise
By Margaret John We The People (WTP), a civil society organization has revealed that children are being given out to prostitution for as little as 100 naira in Calabar, the Cross River State capital. This revelation was made during a stakeholders town hall meeting organized by We The People on Tuesday at Channel View Hotel
By CrossRiverWatch Admin “Says minister-nominee is medically and mentally fit.” All Progressives Congress (APC) Grassroots Youth for Change has urged the Senate to ignore what it described as “malicious media reports” against former Group General Manager (GGM), Crude Oil Marketing Division (OMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and minister-nominee, Mr. Goddy Jeddy-Agba, saying
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Mayhem has been unleashed on Odukpani Local Government Area of Cross River State following bloody communal clashes that have left over 50 people dead, with 10 communities leveled to the ground and more than 3,000 people displaced and rendered homeless. Between June 13 and July 23, attacks and reprisals have sacked villages
By Our Reporter The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) Cross River State chapter has protested over increased kidnapping of its members. The Doctors first shut down the Governor’s office, stops movement of cars in an out of the office; ask Governor Ayade to take aggressive steps in the safe and unconditional release of their colleague, Dr.
By CrossRiverWatch Admin There was pandemonium at Etta-Agbo area of Calabar a while ago as a police traffic warden officer was shot. The assailants, according to an eye witnesses shot at the officer as he was performing his duty of traffic control close to the University of Calabar small gate and immediately speed off Police
By Patrick Obia As gang war continues to hover since the killing of a final year student of electrical and electronic engineering in Cross River University of Technology, Calabar Campus, James Chia, it is reported that another known as Tommy boy, has been dropped dead Wednesday as Police recovered missing body. The incident as reported,