By CrossRiverWatch Admin Mr. Obi James Achara, the managing director of Obi Achara limited, the firm, contracted to construct the isolation center for the COVID-19 pandemic in Calabar, the Cross River State capital is threatening to shut down the facility following the non-payment of a NGN68 million debt. The Sun Newspapers reports that work at
By Jonathan Ugbal CrossRiverWatch has obtained the list of items donated by the Cross River State government to the isolation center at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital in Calabar. The state had on March 13, issued a statement that it has donated items to the isolation center. A cursory look at the report of
By Jonathan Ugbal The Association of Cross River Online Journalists, ACROJ has shut down it secretariat in view of the rising cases of the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria, a statement signed by its Chairman, Edem Darlington and Secretary, Jeremiah Archibong issued on Wednesday read. This comes on the heels of a call by the Executive
By CrossRiverWatch Admin In a bid to enforce the ban on gatherings above five, the health commissioner in Cross River state, Betta Edu in a statement on Wednesday said an ad-hoc monitoring task force with membership co-opted from over three dozen organizations and bodies will be inaugurated on Thursday. “The Cross River state Ministry of
By CrossRiverWatch Admin A groom to be in Cross River State, Mr. Peter Ogar has said he was manhandled by officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) after a disagreement on the safest way to handle vehicle papers to ensure everyone was safe from getting infected by the novel coronavirus. The incident occurred at
By Ushang Ewa The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the position of the member representing Ikom/Boki federal constituency in the 2019 general elections, Sir Victor Abang has said the ignorance will be the biggest challenge in breaking the transmission chain of the COVID-19 pandemic. Abang, in a release signed by him on
By Ushang Ewa and Patrick Obia No fewer than five have been gruesomely murdered at the Nasarawa Bacoco axis of Calabar Municipal local government area of southern Cross River in a renewed gang war that began on Friday residents say. It is unclear the groups that are currently embroiled in the gang war, but a
By CrossRiverWatch Admin A student of the Nigerian Law School, Bwari Campus, Okeke Chikeobi Francis has been remanded along with his alleged accomplice, Valentine Wisdom Ubi, for forgery and impersonation during the school’s final bar exams. The defendants are standing trial before an FCT High Court in Kubwa on a five-count charge bothering on criminal