By CrossRiverWatch admin Two men serving with the mobile police unit in Calabar have been arrested over the death of their colleague who was hacked to death last month by miscreants allegedly hired by a rival community in a land tussle. CrossRiverWatch had reported that the mobile policeman was killed by thugs while he and
By CrossRiverWatch admin Fulani herdsmen in Cross River State on Wednesday urged the state Governor, Senator Ben Ayade to allocate grazing land for their cattle. Leader of the Hausa/Fulani community in the state, Mr. Sani Baba – Gombe, who made the passionate appeal in Calabar, the state capital, explained that the major challenge facing herdsmen
By CrossRiverWatch admin Director General of Cross River State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Dr Betta Edu who was a counsellor for “The Tell Your Story Mind Rubbing Session”, a program on HIT FM, Calabar has been lauded for her commitment to duty. The program was initiated by HIT FM to bring together listeners, victims of
By Inyali Peter Special Assistant on Prosecution to President Muhammadu Buhari and a chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Barrister Okoi Obono-Obla has slammed the Cross River State House of Assembly for feigning ignorance to what he described as “serious constitutional misconduct” by the state governor, Senator Ben Ayade. In a conversation with the
By CrossRiverWatch admin A woman had to be rescued from inside a black Pajero jeep Wednesday after she veered off the road and fell into an open drainage along MCC by Boston Hotel in Calabar the Cross Rivers State capital. The woman according to information available to CrossRiverWatch by eyewitnesses was heading towards Mobil by
CrossRiverWatch admin The National Judicial Council, NJC, Friday, suspended Justice B. T. Ebuta of the High Court of Justice, Cross River State, from office over alleged judicial misconduct. In a statement, Friday, the Council said Justice Ebuta’s suspension from office was with immediate effect. It said the Judge should remain at home pending when Governor
By CrossRiverWatch admin Ntufam John Okon, the erstwhile Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party PDP, in Cross River State has handed over to a newly elected Chairman of the party, Ntufam Edim Inok. Edim Inok, who until election, was the Commissioner for Infrastructure, was elected by the last state congress of the PDP which held at
By CrossRiverWatch admin A popular businessman in Calabar, Chief Kenneth Ekeanyanwu Okpala, who was kidnapped and released after being held in captivity for a week has died. Chief Okpala who died on Tuesday morning was said to have paid the kidnappers N10 million ransom to secure his release from his captors. According to a family