A picture that shows how Cross River State was run…once upon a time when our State Budget was nowhere near =N=100bn…speak less of =N=1 trillion. These documents were the result of very serious work done by the State Planning Commission under the leadership of Prof. Ndem Ndiyo. Those were the days when Cross River State
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Amnesty International Nigeria has called on the Federal Government to unconditionally release prisoners of conscience, Omoyele Sowore, Olawale Bakare and Agba Jalingo. Speaking at the Amnesty International Nigeria Human Rights Festival, Country Director Osai Ojigho says, although Nigeria has been able to put laws in place to protect the rights of it’s
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Justice Simon Amobeda of the Calabar division of the Federal High Court has recused himself in case number FHC/CA/59C/2019, referring the case file to the administrative Judge of the division, Justice Sule Shuaibu. Amobeda in his ruling on Wednesday also granted the prayers of the defendant, Agba Jalingo, a journalist and rights
“As a symbolic demonstration of our protest against autocracy and military-style repression, PUNCH (all our print newspapers, The PUNCH, Saturday PUNCH, Sunday PUNCH, PUNCH Sports Extra, and digital platforms, most especially Punchng.com) will henceforth prefix Buhari’s name with his rank as a military dictator in the 80s, Major General, and refer to his administration as
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Agba Jalingo, publisher of CrossRiverWatch, has asked the Federal High Court to reassign his case to another judge. Jalingo, who is standing trial on charges bordering on conspiracy, terrorism, treasonable felony and attempt to topple the Government of Cross River, said Simon Amobeda, the judge hearing the case, can no longer be
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The National Judicial Council had cleared Justice Akon Ikpeme, Acting Chief Judge of Cross River State High Court of bribery allegation involving Senator Dino Milaye in 2015. In a letter dated 9 May, 2019 to the petitioners (Mr. Olarewaju Suraju, Chairman Civil Society Network Against Corruption and Senator Smart Adeyemi, CON) that
By CrossRiverWatch Admin A Federal High Court sitting in Nigeria’s southern port city of Calabar has rescheduled its ruling on the provision of an electronic verbatim recorder in the trial of journalist and rights activist, Agba Jalingo to Wednesday, December 11, 2019. Four count charges bordering on terrorism, conspiracy and attempts to bring down the
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Mrs. Violet Agba, wife of detained journalist and human rights activist, Agba Jalingo, who is facing trial at a Federal High Court in Calabar, Cross River State, for alleged treasonable felony, speaks with ADA WODU about the travails of her husband. How long have you and Agba Jalingo been married? We got