By Ogar Monday The Cross River state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Inyang Asibong has inaugurated members of the Board of the Cross River State Health Insurance Agency. Speaking at the event which held at the Ministry of Health conference room, Dr. Asibong stated that the inauguration of the Agency’s board is the first step towards
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The dead body of a four-month-old baby boy was last week, found in a gutter, wrapped in a polythene bag, at Beebobsco Bus Stop along Murtala Mohammed Highway in Calabar. Vanguard quotes an eyewitness, Eme Douglas, who sells cement close to where the baby was discovered, said she saw the baby when
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Cross River Police Command on Thursday donated food items worth thousands of naira to the `Orphanage Home’ in Uwanse area of Calabar South Local Government. The State’s Commissioner of Police, Mr Jimoh Ozi-Obeh, said that the donation was part of the command’s humanitarian activities to the needy and less privileged in
By Emma Una Police have confirmed the arrest of three persons in Calabar over the stabbing to death of one David Agama, a chief security officer with Cross River State Cultural Center Board, by unknown persons. The arrest of the suspects, which include the deceased’s girlfriend, according to the Cross River Police Command Public Relations
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Cross River says it arrested 200 suspects for various drug related offences in 2016. Mrs Antonia Edeh, State Commander of NDLEA disclosed this on Monday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Calabar. Edeh said that, out of this
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The premises of the Calabar Urban Development Agency, CUDA, has been sealed for a month running, following a magistrate court judgment against the state government over non-payment of N12.3 million annual rent covering 2014-2016 to the property owner and octogenarian, Chief Mrs. Ekanem Oku Kurz. Vanguard reports that the annual rent of
By Jonathan Ugbal; Government House Correspondent The Governments of Cross River and Ebonyi states have agreed on new terms to fast-track the processes aimed at resolving recurring conflicts between communities located at the Cross River/Ebonyi interstate boundary. This was contained in a communique issued at the end of a joint meeting of officials of both
By Jonathan Ugbal, Elijah Ugani and Ikwen Atuaka A young Bette native, Placidus Undie is the first reported victim from the Bette side of the renewed Bette –Tiv war CrossRiverWatch authoritatively reports. Placidus suspected to be in his mid-twenties was shot in what our correspondent says is his shoulder with the bullet seemingly penetrating his