Thank you to all of you. You may not know, but your support is what gives me the impetus to trudge on. All your advocacies have in many ways helped to always shame my adversaries and I deeply relish it. I sincerely don’t take it for granted and please continue to pray for me to
By Jonathan Ugbal Nigerian Journalist and rights activist, Citizen Agba Jalingo has regained freedom one week after he was remanded at the Medium Security Custodial Center Kuje, Abuja by Justice Zainab Abubakar of the Abuja division of the Federal High Court for alleged acts of cybercrime. Citizen Jalingo was docked last week Monday on charges
By Jonathan Ugbal A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory and presided over by Justice Zainab Abubakar has remanded Nigerian Journalist, Citizen Agba Jalingo at the medium security custodial center in Kuje for allegedly publishing an article that was ‘insulting’ to Mrs. Elizabeth Frank Ayade, wife of the younger brother of
By Etido Okon Citizen Agba Jalingo having received the writ of summons to appear before the High Court Federal Capital Territory in Abuja tomorrow have predicted his fate. Read more about the case here. The CEO of CR Watch Resources, publishers of CrossRiverWatch predicted three possible outcomes from his appearance in court tomorrow. According to
My little girl is now a big girl. A former staff who passed through CrossRiverWatch. She is getting married and I am excited. Like a couple of others who have taken that bold step, they always expect me to say something. And the thing is, what is really there to say? There is no perfect
For the past 25 years, I’ve been unfairly moving from one court to another in Nigeria in criminal trials for crimes I never committed. Not once have I been convicted of any crime and not once have I run away from my trial. I doubt if I even have any record of missing a court
I wake up every morning afraid that one day, I will be asked to renounce everything that makes me an African, or I won’t be allowed to live. By living, I mean, I won’t be allowed on a plane, I won’t be allowed in a mall, I won’t be allowed in a school, I won’t
By Jonathan Ugbal 18 Months after ordering the Federal Government of Nigeria to pay CrossRiverWatch publisher, Citizen Agba Jalingo NGN30 million as compensation for the dehumanizing treatment meted out on him, the President of the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice, Edward Asante on Monday bemoaned what he described as “poor enforcement of its decisions,” at