By CrossRiverWatch Admin A football competition for inmates of the medium security custodial center of the Nigerian Correctional Service in Nigeria’s port city of Calabar will kick off on Monday. The first match of the tournament starts by 10:00AM and it is in honor of Mr. Agba Jalingo, a journalist and rights activist who is
By Godwin Otang The Cross River State Civil Society Network and African Dignity Foundation, has craved the indulgence of the Nigerian authorities both at Federal and State levels to consider alternative dispute resolution mechanism through dialogue, with the Nigerian Media society to resolve what the NGO referred to as “a growing embarrassment to the Nation”.
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Executive Director of “We The People”, a Non-Governmental Organization, Ken Henshew, has expressed worries over the continuous adjournments of trial of Journalist and Human Right activist, Comrade Agba Jalingo’s criminal trial, which he said makes him lose faith in Nigeria Judicial system. Watch report below on CrossRiverWatch TV
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The trial of Mr. Agba Jalingo, a Nigerian journalist charged with terrorism, treasonable felony and attempt to topple the Cross River State Government took a different turn on Wednesday as his lawyers filed an application seeking to modify the order of the Court which granted leave to the prosecution to mask its
By Patrick Obia And Araga Blessing Following the World Day to End Impunity and Crimes Against Journalists on 2nd November every year, veteran journalists, Richard Akinnola and Cletus Ukpong, have called on practicing journalists to put in their best and not allow financial benefits be their focus. The veterans gave the admonition while speaking as
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Cross River State Government has described as bizarre, jaundiced and uniformed, Times Magazine’s publication on Agba Jalingo’s treason trial. A statement issued in Calabar, expressed disappointment at Times Magazine’s mischief and idiocy. “It beats the imagination as to why an international news medium of Times Magazine’s standing feeds its readers with
By CrossRiverWatch Admin In marking the 2019 day of “Ending Impunity Against Journalists” a former Presidential candidate has knocked the Cross River State Governor, Sen. Ben Ayade over the incarceration of Citizen Agba Jalingo. Victor Okhai, a renowned journalist faulted the Cross River State Government for violating the rights of Jalingo over an investigation of
By CrossRiverWatch Admin More than a year after he was killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, the case of journalist Jamal Khashoggi remains at the top of a list of the most serious threats to press freedom. The list — released each month by the One Free Press Coalition, which was created by a dozen news