By Patrick Obia A former Cross River State Governor Donald Duke on Monday told a Federal High Court in Lagos that he would pay his N537,334,360.77 debts to Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) in less than 12 hours. Duke, through his Counsel, Mr. Edoigiawerie Omoruyi, told Justice Nicholas Oweibo that he had approached AMCON
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Press Release A Nigerian Cannot Be Charged With Criminal Offence For Criticising A Governor A Nigerian cannot be charged with any criminal offence for criticising a Governor or any other public officer in Nigeria. In Nwankwo v State (1985) NCLR 247, the Court of Appeal held that any public officer who feels
By CrossRiverWatch Admin A crisis appears on the horizon as the Cross River House of Assembly is about beginning work on a bill seeking the establishment of Land Use and Allocation Management Commission (LUAC) to do away with the Land Use Act 1978 which it considers defective. Also, the legislative chamber is to review the
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Press Release Deteriorating Health Condition Of Mr. Agba Jalingo And The Need To Redeploy CP, Austin Agbonlahor. The Association of Cross River Online Journalists – ACROJ, notes with dismay the continuous unlawful detention of the Publisher of CrossRiverWatch, Mr. Agba Jalingo for about eight (8) days now and counting. As the world
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Policy Alert has called on the Nigerian Police to immediately release Agba Jalingo, a journalist and transparency activist who was arrested last week by the Police on the alleged orders of the Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade, for asking questions on the spending of N500m of a State owned microfinance bank.
By Patrick Obia The Chairman, Association of Cross River Online Journalists (ACROJ) Comrade Darlington Edem, has alleged that there are plans by the Government of Cross River State to gage the media in the State, following the recent arrest and detention of four Journalists in Calabar. Mr. Darlington stated this while speaking as a guest
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Nigerian authorities should immediately release publisher Agba Jalingo and halt their harassment of journalists reporting on alleged corruption and other issues of public interest, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. On August 22, in Lagos, Police Officers with Nigeria’s special anti-robbery squad arrested Jalingo, publisher of online news outlet CrossRiverWatch, according to
By Our Reporter The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) have condemned the arrest and detention of a Nigerian journalist, Agba Jalingo for allegedly criticising the Cross River State Government. Jalingo, Editor-in-Chief/Publisher of CrossRiverWatch, was said to have been whisked away from Lagos by men of the Nigeria Police Force on Thursday and has not been