By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Minister of Interior, Honourable Olabunmi Tunji-Ojo has ordered for an investigation into CrossRiverWatch’s revelations about the poor feeding and welfare of inmates in Afokang Prison, Calabar, Cross River State. The Minister stated this in a release made available by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Babatunde Alao expressing that the
By Patrick Obia Unknown gunmen believed to be militants have attacked Afokang Correctional Center in Calabar South Local Government Area of Cross River State. The gunmen in their numbers during the attack killed armed security and made away with his rifle. The incident occurred in the night hours of Wednesday, October 18, 2023, at about
By Patrick Obia Listen To The Report Justice Rosemary Dugbo of the Calabar division of the Federal High Court on Wednesday, ordered the continuous remand of Charles Oberu who is accused of leaking the sex tape of his ex lover, Gracious John at the Medium Security Custodial Center of the Nigerian Correctional Service, NCS in
By Jonathan Ugbal The Nigerian Government has written Citizen Agba Jalingo, a Nigerian journalist who was incarcerated for 179 days for alleged acts of treason and terrorism after an opinion article he published over his support for inmates in a prison facility in Nigeria’s southern port city of Calabar. “I write in appreciation to acknowledge
News reports in 2019 quoted the CG of Prisons, Jafaru, while defending the budget of his department before the NASS as saying that the federal government spends N17 billion annually on feeding 73,786 convicts and awaiting trial inmates in prisons nationwide. Now I’m wondering if this is what N17 billion can buy? See our meal
By Patrick Obia A legal practitioner, Barr. John Omligbe has written to the Executive Governor of Cross River State, Sen. Ben Ayade to invoke section 212 of the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended), appealing for grant of prerogative of mercy to inmates in Afokang Prison. The solicitor made the appeal
By CrossRiverWatch Admin He will be spending the New Year and his birthday on the 2nd, in prison but Agba Jalingo remains undaunted. He says he will be sharing those small things that his fellow inmates lack acutely in the prison with them on his birthday. He is not asking for birthday gifts or accolades.
I am moved to send you a note from the confines of my loneliness. By cosmic grace, the authorities of Afokang prison in Calabar where I am confined provided a television in an open hall for all of us who our deeds and/or misdeeds have confluenced. So I have the rare privilege of seeing how