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
By CrossRiverWatch Admin In its determined effort to fight energy theft to a stand- still in the network, the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Plc has accosted seven suspected energy thieves who are in the habit of extending the network illegally. The Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) were alerted by the officials of PHED
By Archibong Jeremiah “I write to notify Your Excellency of my decision to withdraw my services from the office of the Chairman of Anti-Deforestation Task Force. My reasons for the withdrawal are directly connected with the consistent interferences in the operations of the ATF by other agencies of Government; without any attempt at joint consultations or synergy. In
To everything under the sun, there is time and a season. A time to be born and a time to die; a time to love and a time to hate, a time to build and a time to destroy (Ecclesiastes 3:1-8). This is permanent, unchanging ecclesiastical truism that is of humanity and which every living
By Jonathan Ugbal Information reaching our newsroom suggests that Cross River Governor, Benedict Ayade may from Saturday, March 28th 2020, impose a curfew to prevent the state from recording any case of COVID19. Sources at Government House Calabar and the Emergency Operations Center in Calabar, the state capital also said Mr. Ayade may ban inter-local