By Patrick Obia CrossRiverWatch’s entertainment correspondent, Clement Oto-obong, better known as Walata Worldwide has bagged the entrepreneur award, 2022. One of Cross River’s best celebrity photographers and photojournalists bagged the award in ‘August Meeting’ an event organized by Dr. Lomosmith Concept 6th edition, on Sunday, August 21, 2022, at the Dome Municipal Garden, Calabar. The
By Patrick Obia The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has debunked reports the Commission will collate the 2023 general election manually. National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Barrister Festus Okoye in a press release on Sunday said he was misinterpreted in an interview he granted. INEC noted that collation and transmission of
By Judex Okoro, The Sun Newspaper Cross River State Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Venatius Ikem, Esq. has stated that they would only participate in the Local Government Elections on the condition that Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) is used to conduct polls. The Chairman of Cross River State Independent Electoral Commission (CROSIEC) Dr.
By Jonathan Ugbal The Federal Capital Territory, FCT, command of the Nigeria Police Force has granted CrossRiverWatch Publisher, Citizen Agba Jalingo bail after hiding him from his lawyers and other activists for hours. Mr. Jalingo was arrested at his Ogudu residence in Lagos State on Friday following a petition from Mrs. Elizabeth Alami Ayade, the
By Jonathan Ugbal The Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities, SSANU, and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Allied and Education Institutions, NASU, on Saturday suspended their strike actions after a meeting with the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu in Abuja. The suspension is expected to take effect from Wednesday and will last an initial 60
By Jonathan Ugbal Rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong who is serving a one-month jail term handed him by the Chief Judge of the High Court of Akwa Ibom State, Justice Ekaette Obot for alleged contempt has filed a notice of appeal to vacate the committal order. The notice was filed on Friday in suit number HU/279/2019
By CrossRiverWatch Admin A defamation petition filed by Mrs. Elizabeth Alami Ayade, wife of Dr. Frank Ayade, the younger brother of Cross River State Governor, Senator Ben Ayade led to the arrest of Citizen Agba Jalingo, publisher of CrossRiverWatch, and the attempted kidnapping of his staff on Friday. Mrs. Alami Ayade, through her lawyers in
(I expressed this concern three years ago, and I was called names…) The excellent positive reviews and responses that have flooded the Cross River social media space for the first delivery of seedlings from the Cross River Rice City to Bayelsa, are a testament to the acceptability of the project and citizens’ appreciation for completed