I do not have the temperament to witness the ongoing mis-governance in Ayade’s Cross River State without staging a protest, without putting up some resistance against such maladministration which is being forced down our throats in a civilised society. The state continues to sink into the abyss without a trace of redemption, yet only a
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Obanliku chapter of the National Youths Council of Nigeria (NYCN), has berated the Cross River State government for sharing images of the Senate President of the second republic, Joseph Wayas in his sick bed in London, the United Kingdom. Wayas, 80, has been battling with an undisclosed health challenge since 2013.
It has been a full year today without you. I had never imagined life without you even for a second, but here I am in a new reality. On Thursday, 19th November 2020 you and your friends undertook that journey of love and friendship to join another friend in Ondo State for the burial of
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Dr. Idem Etuk Samuel, the owner of Mount Zion Medical Center who was accused of sexually harassing a female minor, was on Thursday, taken to the Federal Neuro Psychiatric Hospital in Calabar after he was arrested. Dr. Etuk was arrested on Thursday by the Cross River State command of the Nigerian Police
By Patrick Obia There is disquiet in the University of Cross River State (UNICROSS) as the National Universities Commission, (NUC) has issued a December 5, 2021 deadline for management to fix the studios of the Department of Mass Communication or lose accreditation. This less than a year after the institution changed its name from the
By Archibong Jeremiah In what may be described as aiding and abetting corruption, the judicial authorities in Cross River State have refused to act despite CrossRiverWatch investigation that proved Magistrate Bassey Nsidieti Bassey, Registrar of Ikom Magistrate’s Court is allegedly abusing his office for personal gains. The Chief Registrar, Judiciary Headquarters in Calabar, the State
By Victoria Effiong In 2012, the Federal Executive Council approved the sum of N1.2 billion for the construction of a specialist hospital in Ikom Local Government Area in Cross River State. But after nine years, the hospital is yet to be opened because the building which was half-done is now deteriorating. The hospital, a one-story
By Elijah Ojonicko Akoji, WikkiTimes This investigation reveals a mind-boggling web of corruption around multi-million naira contracts for the construction of solar-powered and hand pump boreholes in Yobe North Senatorial District, awarded to so-called briefcase contractors who did not do the projects after collecting the money. In Yobe North where Nigeria’s Senate President Ahmad Lawan comes