By Jonathan Ugbal The Cross River State government has said residents will from Friday, April 3, 2020 need a face mask to leave their homes. This, according to a statement signed by the spokesman of Governor Ben Ayade, Mr. Christian Ita is in light of the “proliferation of new cases of coronavirus in neighboring states.”
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Cross River State Governor, Sen. Ben Ayade has inaugurated the State Covid-19 Response Team with the mandate to adhere to existing protocol. According to the Mathew Okache, an aid to the Governor he released of 500 million naira only and 20 vehicles to assist the Committee in ensuring Cross River State
By Archibong Jeremiah First suspected case of COVID-19 has been recorded in Calabar, the Cross River State capital. Samples have been collected and sent for testing. The patient is currently at the isolation center UCTH. Watch video of the patient being admitted at the isolation center below.
By Archibong Jeremiah Information reaching our newsroom has it that Mr. Okan Peter, a news caster for CRBC is dead. According to colleagues at CRBC he slumped and when rushed to the hospital was confirmed dead yesterday Infront of his house. He hails from Obubra LGA of Cross River State. More details shortly.
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Cross River State Government on Monday turned back 35 American oil workers over coronavirus screening. The State Government was said to have asked the workers to go for further screening in Lagos or Abuja before they would be allowed in. It was gathered that they were later taken to Abuja. A
By Archibong Jeremiah The Cross River State Government has chastised its ‘COVID – 19 critics’ maintaining that instead of supporting, they tend to become a turn in the flesh. The State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Betta Edu gave the lashing while rating Arthur Jarvis university Akpabuyo as the first to support the course. According to her,
By Jonathan Ugbal Residents of Ugep community in Yakurr local government area of central Cross River are currently gripped with fear after a female youth corper who recently returned from Abuja is said to have been rushed to Calabar, the state capital to be tested for COVID-19. The youth corper, a native of Ugep is
By Patrick Obia As part of it’s Corperate Social Responsibility (CSR), the first indigenous and only private university in Cross River State, Arthur Jarvis university Akpabuyo has donated items worth hundreds of thousands to the Cross River State Government to support in the fight against Coronavirus pandemic. Items which include 150 bottles of hand sanitizer, 2000 hand