By Archibong Jeremiah Justice Simon Amobeda has varied an order he made last year in his ruling that the Court Registrar provide electronic verbatim recorder before proceedings in the case between the Federal Government versus Agba Jalingo continues. He also granted request by the Cross River State Government to take over the case from the
By Archibong Jeremiah The Socio-Economic Rights Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged the Federal Government of Nigeria and Cross River State Governor, Sen. Ben Ayade to ECOWAS Court over the continued incarceration and rights abuse of Citizen Agba Jalingo, publisher of CrossRiverWatch. The group made the disclosure via twitter yesterday after the ultimatum it gave the
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Justice Simon Amobeda has ordered the Prison authority to produce Agba Jalingo in Court on Friday 7th February 2020. Jalingo, publisher of CrossRiverWatch was absent this morning as the Court sat. Reacting, James Ibor, Esq. Counsel to Jalingo was optimistic that the Prison authority will obey the order haven failed to produce
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Mr. Agba Jalingo, a Nigerian journalist who is facing trial for alleged crimes of terrorism and cybercrime will on Wednesday return to the dock after 55 days of lull in his prosecution. Agba last appeared in public and in Court on December 12, 2019 when the trial judge, Justice Simon Amobeda granted
By Patrick Obia, Ololo Kelvin And Godwin Otang Students of Cross River University of Technology (CRUTECH) Calabar campus, on Monday, 3rd February, 2020 staged a peaceful protest against the school management’s suspension of Students Union Government (SUG) and other union activities in the institution. The protest which was spearheaded by students leaders, moved from one
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Philip Agbebia Agba, a sibling of Agba Jalingo, a Nigerian journalist facing charges of terrorism and cybercrime has died at the age of 34. And, Jalingo who has spent 163 days away from his family since his arrest on August 22, 2019 is “distraught with grief,” a statement issued by CrossRiverWatch on
By Ovatitomi Ibingha The Association of Cross River Online Journalists (ACROJ) has made a request to the Cross River Microfinance Bank under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act (2011) of Nigeria. The body of journalists asked that the bank should furnish it with details of the 500m Naira approved by Governor Ben Ayade for floating
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Nigerian Police Force, Cross River State Command has called on members of the public to come identify and collect their properties or loose them. The Command through its Public Relations Officer, DSP Irene Ugbo in a release in Calabar urged claimers/owners to present original documents for verification and collection between January