By CrossRiverWatch Admin The last time Ibil, a community in Nkum – Irede Ward, west of Ogoja Local Government Area, was in the news was about three years ago. June 16, 2018 precisely, residents of Ibil, woke up to the pernicious angst of nature in a magnitude they had never experienced in their living memory.
By Bridget Edokwe, Barrister NG As part of ongoing efforts by the leadership of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to address the issues plaguing the Judiciary in Cross River State, the NBA President, Olumide Akpata, in the company of the NBA Welfare Secretary, Mr. Kunle Edun, had an interactive session on 7th February 2021 with
By Archibong Jeremiah The Cross River State Governor, Sen. Ben Ayade has finally sworn in Akon Ikpeme as Chief Judge of the State. The ceremony which has been talk of the town took place at Exco Chamber of the Government House. Gov. Ben Ayade has been at loggerhead with NJC over Akon’s appointment. See pictures
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The remains of a former Chairman of the governing council of the National Youth Service Corps, Chief Linus Okom was on Saturday laid to rest in Bekwarra Local Government Area of northern Cross River State. Okom, popularly referred to as ‘Ada Ebekwarra’ which loosely translates to “The Father of Bekwarra,” passed away
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Details are emerging how Honorable Justice Akon Ikpeme, has walked the tight rope to her exalted office as the Chief Judge of Cross River state, 427 days since the retirement of Justice Michael Edem in November 2019. CrossRiverWatch gathered that there was intense horse trading to try to reassure the governor that
By Archibong Jeremiah The management of Cross River University of Technology (CRUTECH) has ignored the proclamation of the State Governor, Sen. Ben Ayade to suspend payment of school fee by indigenes in the institution. Governor Ayade made the proclamation to that effect October last year, during a press briefing where he maintained that the suspension of
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Cross River Governor, Ben Ayade has asked the 29 Magistrates who were engaged by the State in 2019 from the private bar to forfeit their two years salary owed them. This was disclosed in a letter obtained by this Newspaper on Tuesday wherein the 29 Magistrates who were recently directed to stop
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The High Court of Cross River State would have gone 417 days without a substantive Chief Judge when Justice Effiom Eyo-Ita served out his tenure in acting capacity at midnight of January 18, 2021. This equates to 13 months or 60 weeks, over 10,000 hours, 600,000 minutes and about 36 million seconds.