By CrossRiverWatch Admin The World Health Organization (WHO) today issued a new series of recommendations to improve quality of antenatal care in order to reduce the risk of stillbirths and pregnancy complications and give women a positive pregnancy experience. According to report from WHO Headquarters Geneva, last year an estimated 303, 000 women died from
By CrossRiverWatch Admin During recessions, the public gets frightened and holds back on spending, resulting in more layoffs, which in turn produces less spending in a vicious circle of economic decline”. The above quote from one of British most influential economists of the 20th century, John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), was a warning about the danger
By CrossRiverWatch admin Leader of a militant group, Bakassi Strike Force BSF, Benjamin Simply, also known as General Simply or G1 has said that he and his fighters will lay down their arms if the Federal Government can evolve an acceptable way of resettling the people of Bakassi who were displaced by the ceding of
By Our Correspondent In a bid to re-energize and increase footfalls into the famous Obudu ranch resort as well as provide access to produce markets, Cross River State Governor, Senator Ben Ayade, weekend, flagged off construction work on a 134 kilometers Mfom-Okpoma-Imaje-Bekwarra-Obudu-Obanliku dual carriage road. The construction of the Federal road which will traverse the
By CrossRiverWatch admin The University of Calabar has sacked the embattled Bursar of the institution, Mr. Peter Agi who has been having a running battle with the Vice Chancellor of the school, Professor Zana Akpagu. In a letter from the school authority to the Bursar, Council accused him of insurbordination and breach of other substantive
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The failure of the Cross River state government to extend the approval of a new remuneration to the state law officers having done same for the magistracy since May 2015, is generating ripples that may lead to an industrial action. In a notice of strike action dated November 1, 2016 to the
By Ada Andor (photo credit: Godwin Apple) A maid working for a senior lecturer at the Federal College of Education, Obudu, Cross River State has been seriously brutalized by the wife of the lecturer and the little girl is presently receiving treatment at the Sacred Heart Hospital in Obudu. CrossRiverWatch gathered that on the night
By CrosRiverWatch Admin The federal government has granted provisional approval to Arthur Javis University of Science and Technology in Akpabuyo, Cross State. The approval was granted, Wednesday, during a meeting of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, which held at the council chamber of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The Minister of State for Education, Anthony Onwuka,