By CrossRiverWatch Admin Nigerian authorities should immediately release publisher Agba Jalingo and halt their harassment of journalists reporting on alleged corruption and other issues of public interest, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. On August 22, in Lagos, Police Officers with Nigeria’s special anti-robbery squad arrested Jalingo, publisher of online news outlet CrossRiverWatch, according to
By Our Reporter The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) have condemned the arrest and detention of a Nigerian journalist, Agba Jalingo for allegedly criticising the Cross River State Government. Jalingo, Editor-in-Chief/Publisher of CrossRiverWatch, was said to have been whisked away from Lagos by men of the Nigeria Police Force on Thursday and has not been
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Jalingo was arrested on Thursday in Lagos and taken to Calabar, capital of Cross River State, by officers of the Nigeria Police allegedly on the request of the governor. Wife of the publisher of CrossRiverWatch, Agba Jalingo, Violet, has said that the state governor, Ben Ayade, was persecuting her husband for exposing
By Our Reporter International Press Center (IPC) has denounced the growing crackdown on freedom of expression following the continuing molestation of journalists and the Media by security agencies. In a press release by the Association of Cross River Online Journalists – ACROJ dated August 22, 2019 Mr. Agba Jalingo, Editor-in-Chief/Publisher of CrossRiverWatch was criminally whisked
The unlawful arrest and persecution of Agba Jalingo, Editor-in-Chief/Publisher of CrossRiverWatch for trying to hold the Cross River State Government accountable, is one that must be condemned by all well meaning citizens, we must all rise now to stand against it. In no democracy anywhere in the world is taking one’s Government to task a
By Archibong Jeremiah Our newsroom can confirm that Mr. Agba Jalingo, Publisher of CrossRiverWatch has arrive the Cross River State Police Command in company the IRT. They arrived in the early hours of today and slept at an undisclosed hotel in Ekorinim, Calabar. He’s being held custody at the Anti Cult and Kidnapping Squad
Because… In Nigeria arrest is used as a punishment, arrest is used to disgrace citizens, arrest is used to show that “I pass my neighbor”, arrest is used to flex both political and economic muscles. Because… Agba Jalingo wrote about the grand corruption in the Cross River State microfinance bank, they invited him for questioning
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigerian police has arrested the publisher of CrossRiverWatch, a Cross River State-based newspaper, Agba Jalingo. An editor of the paper, Archibong Jeremiah, told PREMIUM TIMES about the development, Thursday evening. He said Mr. Jalingo was arrested at his Lagos residence and taken to SARS office