By Archibong Jeremiah CrossRiverWatch Editor-In-Chief and rights activist, Citizen Agba Jalingo has been arrested by the Cross River State command of the Nigerian Police Force over a fake petition that he is an arms dealer. He is currently been questioned at the State Criminal Investigation Department (CIID) of the Cross River Police Command. The Commissioner
In Part V, Section 30 of the Cross River State Traditional Rulers Law, it is illegal for our revered Traditional Rulers to participate in partisan politics. Take Particular Note Of Sub-section 1C And Sub-Section 3. Following those provisions, the Speaker of the State Assembly should either amend the law to allow our monarchs to play
By CrossRiverWatch Admin At least nine person’s including a former member of the Cross River State House of Assembly, Tom Agi were injured after they were hit by bullets fired from guns used by security officials attached to the defection rally of Alphonsus Ogar Eba, the Director General of the Cross River State Bureau of
By Patrick Obia Weeks after Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River defected from the People’s Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress (APC), more of his aides have resigned declining to defect with him. The Governor has also sacked another commissioner, Francis Etta who refused to defect with him. Among those who have resigned recently
This is a column by Ken Henshaw, Executive Director of We The People. WITTY THOUGHT is a brisk review of situations in Nigeria with intent to revive social consciousness. People who support the Twitter ban in Nigeria generally fall into two categories. The first are principally of Northern Nigeria extraction and die hard supporters of
Weeks ago, a BBC Africa Eye documentary about corruption in the pension system in Cross River State went viral. The twenty-six-minute documentary showed the plight of pensioners in the State and exposed some unsavoury practices of government officials in the management of pensions. The plight of our pensioners shows that when greed-fueled corruption enters the
By Patrick Obia The Peoples Democratic party (PDP) has opined that it’ll leave no storm unturned to reclaim Cross River State from the All Progressives Congress (APC). It went on to assert that the guilty ones are always looking for where to hide but eventually gets smoked out. The PDP South-South Zonal Chairman, Mr. Dan
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) in collaboration with the Department of Environmental Education, University of Calabar (UNICAL) joined the rest of the world to commemorate the 2021 World Environment Day with the theme “Ecosystem Restoration”. The Deputy Vice Chancellor in her address enjoined participants not just to plant trees but also note