By Jonathan Ugbal Family members and sources in the Cross River State Police Command say Governor Ben Ayade’s aide on Cocoa Development, Mr. Oscar Ofuka has been moved to Lagos State after spending a night detained in Calabar. This was despite the Police Command saying he had been released following the manner which he was
By Jonathan Ugbal Following the botched arrest of Oscar Ofuka, Special Adviser to Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River on cocoa development at the premises of the Cross River Broadcasting Corporation in Calabar on Tuesday, more details have emerged about how ego and flouted agreements led to the heated situation. CrossRiverWatch gathered that the gestapo
By Jonathan Ugbal Gunmen dressed like men of the Nigerian Police Force earlier on Tuesday stormed the cocoa farm at the Cross River Broadcasting Corporation in Calabar, abducting Mr. Oscar Ofuka, the Special Adviser on Cocoa Development to Governor Ben Ayade. Mr. Ofuka was preparing grounds waiting for the Deputy Governor, Professor Ivara Esu who
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Two students in the Faculty of Law of the University of Calabar who were abducted on July 1, 2021 have remained in captivity. The duo are, Okoi Ikpi Itam Jr (pictured), son of the late former Chief Judge of the High Court of Cross River State, Justice Okoi Ikpi Itam and Vincent
This is the first part of the reports on some communities in dire need of basic social amenities in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State. The focus here is Eha-Etiti under Nsukka East Development Centre. Nineteen years ago, Juliana Okoro was in labor and needed to be transported on a motorbike to a healthcare
By Nathaniel Bivan, HumAngle Fourteen-year-old Uchenna Amarachi, a second-year student at Junior Secondary School (JSS) Kayarda, has never used a library though she lives about a kilometre away from one — or what is supposed to be the Kuje public library/ICT centre. Amarachi lives at Unguwar Gede, a settlement within Kuje Area Council in Nigeria’s
By CrossRiverWatch Admin After a decade of hosting the career day conference of the Bridge Leadership Foundation, Calabar, Cross River’s capital will lose that to Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory. The 11th career day of TBLF will hold on Saturday, July 10, 2021 at the NAF Conference Center and Suites, Abuja, by 10:00AM, details released
By Agosi Todo, The Guardian Nine communities that make up Bahumono nation in Cross River State, last week, were nostalgic about the death of 200,000 youths over land disputes. The communities, located in the Abi Local Government Area of the State, including Ediba, Usumutong, Ebijakara, only embraced peace last year after 14 years of communal