By Patrick Obia The Cross River State Police Command has commended and awarded deserving officers of the Force for their dedication and outstanding performance. The Command said the initiative is aimed to inspire all officers to strive for excellence. The awards were presented during the monthly mess gathering at the Police Officers’ Mess, Moore Road,
By Our Reporter The Imo State Government has appointed prominent radio anchor Ukana Omon as Chairman of the 2023 Governor Hope Uzodinma Media Excellence Award Committee. Omon, an associate member of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations, will lead the 9-member committee comprising veterans, directors of MDAs, chairmen of press associations, and newspaper publishers to
By Patrick Obia Code 888, a non-partisan pressure group championing equity, justice, and fairness as well as equitable power rotation across the three senatorial districts in Cross River State, is set to honor the outgoing Governor of Cross River State, Sen. Ben Ayade, and 20 others. The group disclosed this in a press briefing held
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The national body of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) recently bestowed on DailyTrust correspondent, Eyo Charles the Torch Bearer of Press Freedom Award. The award is usually given to editors, reporters, media practitioners who faced persecution, humiliation, attacks, detention, imprisonment, physical injury or suffered death in the course of performing their
Since March 2013, when CrossRiverWatch was barely six months old after commencing publishing, we reported a story about how the then Chairman of Obudu Local Government Council, Mr. Emmanuel Ikwen, collected an overdraft of N6million from the Obudu branch of First Bank plc, to pay a Non Governmental Organization in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory
By CrossRiverWatch Admin This year’s Best of Nollywood Award, BON, which aimed at acknowledging the resilience of Nigerian film makers amidst the economic recession, took place last Sunday, at El-Dorda Event Center, Aba, Abia State. Hosted by ace comedian, Okey Bakassi, and actress, Mercy Aigbe-Gentry, the high point of the star-studded ceremony was when three
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Cross River state’s premier online blog www.crossriverwatch.com has been nominated for the MOST ENTREPRISING BLOG award in this year’s national enterpreneurs awards holding in Abuja. A letter of nomination sent to the management of CrossRiverWatch from the award organizers say the call for nomination opened between April and June 2016. Part of
By Jonathan Ugbal Ahead of the October 31 rescheduled Young Business Icons Summit and Awards organised by CrossRiverWatch in collaboration with the Nigerian Youth Chamber of Commerce, all has been declared set. Speaking at the venue of the event, the President of the Democracy Club, Emmanuel Etim says “we are good to go, everything here