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Police Invite CrossRiverWatch Publisher To Abuja, Jalingo Says He Needs Flight Ticket From Lagos, Accommodation, And Feeding

By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Police in Abuja have invited the publisher of CrossRiverWatch, Citizen Agba Jalingo. The invitation is in connection with the petition by Mrs. Alami Frank Ayade, wife of Gov. Ben Ayade’s younger brother, Frank Ayade. Recall that on August 19, 2022, unidentified Policemen barricaded Jalingo’s Lagos residence, and held his wife, and

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Miserable Are The Reins Of Power Who Don’t Understand The Pen… BY AGBA JALINGO

One of the first lessons students of journalism are ingrained in the classroom is, poet John Milton’s 1644 pamphlet “Areopagitica”, written in response to the British Parliament’s passage of a law requiring the government to approve all books prior to publication. In the Areopagitica, Milton argued that truth and understanding, “are not such wares as

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Ruminations: If Only The Emperor Had Known … BY AGBA JALINGO

You locked me up in jail for the first time for six months for doing nothing to you. You put me on a three years trial for horrible crimes like terrorism, treasonable felony, cultism, and an attempt to overthrow the government. My younger brother, Agbibia, who worked with me, died while you incarcerated me and

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Police Held Me Incommunicado In Abuja Abattoir Cell – Agba Jalingo

Activist and publisher of CrossRiverWatch, Agba Jalingo, who was arrested by the police in his Lagos home and whisked to Abuja allegedly on the order of the wife of the younger brother of the Governor of Cross River State, speaks to GODFREY GEORGE of Punch Newspaper about his experience. What led to your recent arrest by the

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Police Apologize To Agba Jalingo As Gov. Ayade’s In-Law Fails To Defend Criminal Defamation Petition

By Jonathan Ugbal Mrs. Elizabeth Alami Ayade, the sister-in-law of Cross River State Governor, Senator Ben Ayade on Monday, failed to show up at the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, command of the Nigeria Police Force to defend her criminal defamation petition against CrossRiverWatch publisher, Citizen Agba Jalingo. Mr. Jalingo was arrested on Friday at his

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JUST IN: Agba Jalingo Arrives Police SCID In Abuja Over Defamation Petition By Governor Ayade’s In-Law

By CrossRiverWatch Admin CrossRiverWatch publisher, Citizen Agba Jalingo has arrived the Nigeria Police Force State Criminal Investigation Department in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory to answer to a petition by Mrs. Elizabeth Alami Ayade, sister in-law of Cross River Governor, Senator Benedict Ayade bordering on defamation and infringement of integrity. He was arrested last weekend

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BREAKING: Police Grant Agba Jalingo Bail After Hiding Him For Hours

By Jonathan Ugbal The Federal Capital Territory, FCT, command of the Nigeria Police Force has granted CrossRiverWatch Publisher, Citizen Agba Jalingo bail after hiding him from his lawyers and other activists for hours. Mr. Jalingo was arrested at his Ogudu residence in Lagos State on Friday following a petition from Mrs. Elizabeth Alami Ayade, the

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Gov. Ben Ayade’s In-Law Responsible For Jalingo’s Arrest, Attempted Kidnap Of CrossRiverWatch Staff

By CrossRiverWatch Admin A defamation petition filed by Mrs. Elizabeth Alami Ayade, wife of Dr. Frank Ayade, the younger brother of Cross River State Governor, Senator Ben Ayade led to the arrest of Citizen Agba Jalingo, publisher of CrossRiverWatch, and the attempted kidnapping of his staff on Friday. Mrs. Alami Ayade, through her lawyers in

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