By Patrick Obia Students of the University of Calabar (UNICAL) and the Cross River University of Technology (CRUTECH) may resume school after staying at home for over 300 days to write exams sooner than they expected. Academic activities were shut down in both varsities since March 2020 first, for an industrial action by the Academic
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Cross River Governor, Ben Ayade has asked the 29 Magistrates who were engaged by the State in 2019 from the private bar to forfeit their two years salary owed them. This was disclosed in a letter obtained by this Newspaper on Tuesday wherein the 29 Magistrates who were recently directed to stop
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The High Court of Cross River State would have gone 417 days without a substantive Chief Judge when Justice Effiom Eyo-Ita served out his tenure in acting capacity at midnight of January 18, 2021. This equates to 13 months or 60 weeks, over 10,000 hours, 600,000 minutes and about 36 million seconds.
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Acclaimed government enforcement agents have been caught on video soliciting for bribe from a taxi driver at the Ika Ika Oqua (Marian) market who allegedly parked wrongly. The agents who bragged, boasted of their might, insisted on receiving a bribe of NGN5,000 from the unidentified driver and could be heard telling the
Exactly 55 years at the wee hours of Saturday 15th January 1966, the nascent nation – Nigeria, was rocked to its very foundation when a dissident extract, or rather, sect of the Nigerian Army led by Maj. P. C. Nzeogwu Kaduna and four others kidnapped and killed notable Nigerians like Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (Prime
By Emma Una, Vanguard Newspaper A clash between two rival gang has allegedly left four persons dead at Bakassii Local Government Area in Cross River State. Eyewitnesses said the clash started on Thursday with the killing of one person at Ekpri Ikang and has been raging till Saturday night. A resident of the Bakassi who
By Patrick Obia Cross River State Government has confirmed receipt of 20.4 million dollars grant from World Bank. The grant is from the State Fiscal Transparency, Accountability and Sustainability (SFTAS) program, which began in 2018, to terminate in 2022. The State Commissioner for Finance, Mr. Asuquo Ekpenyong Jnr, revealed this at a press briefing Friday
Welcome to the second episode of X-Raying The River where we x-ray different issues bedeviling Cross River State … not necessarily bedeviling, that impact on Cross River State across Cross Riverians of course. Today, we are focusing on the issues that have affected the magistratesy in Cross River State, talking about Magistrates. For those of