By Ike Uchechukwu, Vanguard News Nigeria The Cross River Police Command on Friday warned that it will no longer condone any form of street protest by any group in the State, stressing that a lot of strange elements were waiting to leverage on such avenues to carry out mayhem. The Commissioner of Police, CP Sikiru
By Patrick Obia A 300 level student of Visual Art Department, University of Cross River State, UNICROSS, Calabar campus identified as Ford (real name not verified) has been killed by armed robbers. The incident occured within the school premises close to the school administrative building, few metres away from the Security post yesterday Thursday, June
By Archibong Jeremiah The Cross River State Commissioner of Police, CP Sikiru Akande warned that Cross Riverians and dwellers should be aware of fraudulent job advertisement. CP Sikiru Akande gave the admonition following the defilement of a minor by a final year Law student of the University of Calabar, UNICAL, who is currently on the
By Patrick Obia Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company, PHED, has apologized for the unstable public power supply witnessed in its franchise States will be rectified soon. PHED in a public announcement on Tuesday, June 1, 2021, said the outage is as a result of generation constraint which has led to the intermittent supplies and will
By Patrick Obia Rainforest Resource and Development Centre, RRDC, has sent SOS to 100 Boki Local Government Council (Cross River State) sons and daughters well placed in the society to rescue their God-given resources. The group in a letter signed by its Executive Director, Mr. Odey Oyama and addressed to the Boki stakeholders revealed that it had
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Governor Ben Ayade has recalled his aide on aviation, Agbiji Mbeh Agbiji hours after he was sacked. This is contained in a statement signed by his spokesman, Mr. Christian Ita and issued on Monday afternoon, hours after a different statement said he, alongside 8 other had been “relieved” of their appointments. “Hon.
By Jonathan Ugbal The protest by civil servants engaged by the Cross River State Government between 2017 and 2018 over non payment of salaries continued today in front of the Governor’s office in Calabar. The protest which began on Tuesday last week has continued despite a snub by Governor Ayade and his supporters. On Thursday,
By Ushang Ewa Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has relieved four commissioners of their appointments after they refused to defect to the All Progressives Congress (APC) with him. They are Messrs Mike Usibe, Rita Ayim, Asu Okang and Donatus Etim. The quartet had allegedly resigned their appointments after Mr. Ayade was railroaded into