By Ike Uchechukwu, Vanguard Newspaper The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has warmed that 14 Local Government Areas in Cross River are vulnerable to flooding, following the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) and the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NISHA) prediction of May 2020. The Director-General of NEMA, Air Vice Marshall Mohammed Mohammed (Rtd), disclosed this in
By Judex Okoro, The Sun Newspaper Refuses to grant interlocutory injunction Palpable fear and tension have gripped some members of PDP in Cross River following the withdrawal of Justice Elias Abua from a suit challenging the inauguration of ward and Local Governments Executive Committees. Following the directive by the National Working Committee (NWC) of PDP,
By Jonathan Ugbal A Mobile Court in Lagos state has discharged and acquitted 19 members of the RevolutionNow movement arrested earlier today by men of the Nigerian Police Force. Journalist and rights activist, Agba Jalingo facing trial for alleged acts of treasonable felony due to an article he wrote in July 2019, was among the
By Jonathan Ugbal CrossRiverWatch publisher, Agba Jalingo and 18 others participating in the #RevolutionNow protest in Ikeja, Lagos have been arrested by men of the Nigerian Police Force. Witnesses say they were protesting at Ikeja under bridge in Lagos when the Police swooped in and effected a mass arrest after firing teargas canisters. The #RevolutionNow
By Jonathan Ugbal Mrs Kate Agbor, a resident of Calabar has written to the Commissioner of Police (CP) in Cross River state, Mr. Jimoh Ibrahim disclosing that an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Mr. Stephen Udeme Brown attempted to rape her. This comes Barely a week after CP Ibrahim warned officers against conducts that will
By Jonathan Ugbal More details are emerging from the May 24, 2020 raid of the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Victory personnel on Potomas Hotel in Atimbo, Akpabuyo local government area as a witness, Mr. Godwin Ibok has claimed that they were tortured mercilessly. Narrating his ordeal to CrossRiverWatch, Mr. Ibok said that the action which
By Jonathan Ugbal The Commissioner for health in Cross River state, Dr. Betta Edu has said that the seeming discrepancies in the data for Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) cases is due to the strict standing order of procedure (SOP) of the Nigerian Center for Disease Control (NCDC). There have been discrepancies in the reported number of
Since March 2013, when CrossRiverWatch was barely six months old after commencing publishing, we reported a story about how the then Chairman of Obudu Local Government Council, Mr. Emmanuel Ikwen, collected an overdraft of N6million from the Obudu branch of First Bank plc, to pay a Non Governmental Organization in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory