By Idorenyin Umoren Listen To The Report It was all heart of gratitude at the Methodist Church of Nigeria, Ikot Effiong Nta, Immanuel section of the Calabar Diocese as family and friends joined Mrs. Joy Ojukwu in a thanksgiving service. Mrs. Ojukwu, a Deaconess in the church founded more than 170 years ago, retired as
By Patrick Obia Heavily armed security personnel have barricaded the Cross River State House of Assembly after the Federal High Court sacked 20 members of the State Assembly who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The security personnel comprising of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corp,
By Jonathan Ugbal A Federal High Court sitting in Calabar and presided over by Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu on Monday, discharged Nigerian journalist and activist, Agba Jalingo in a criminal suit that alleged he committed acts of terrorism, treasonable felony and cyber crimes. This followed the decision of the Cross River State Government to withdraw the
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Cross River State Governor, Sen. Ben Ayade has signed the Cross River State Livestock and Grazing Management bill into law. The Governor also signed the Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption bill recently passed by the Cross River State House of Assembly into law. At the signing ceremony held at the Conference Hall of
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Nigerian airline, Aero contractors is flying a triangular route between Lagos, Kano and Sokoto airports with an aircraft leased by the Cross River State government. This follows the temporal suspension of operations by the airline on the Lagos – Calabar and Abuja – Calabar route. The airline restricted daily flights to Mondays,
By Ola Blessing Two teenagers have been arrested in Calabar by men of the Nigerian Police today for allegedly stealing electric cables along the IBB Way. The apprentices eyewitness said they were apprentices in the shop where they stole the wires. The eyewitness who spoke in anonymity added that the boys claimed that the owner
By Esther Okoi For efficiency, accountability, and proper representation of the Cross River Internal Revenue Service (CRIRS), the State Chairman, Nigeria Institute of Public Relations, NIPR, Cross River State Chapter, Mr. Benedict Okache has called for more sensitization of taxpayers and the harmonization of tax collection across the 18 Local Government Areas of the State,
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Cross River representative of Sermatech Nigeria limited, handling the dualization of Calabar-Itu road, Mr. Ento Edako says community members should be blamed for the deliance in the job delivery. The project which is now funded by NNPC extends from Oku-Iboku in Akwa Ibom State to the Odukpani power plant in Cross River