By Our Correspondent Academic activities have resumed in the University of Calabar with students expressing diverse opinions on the issue. Lectures resumed Thursday, following the expiration of the one week solidarity strike embarked upon by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) after gunmen invaded the varsity’s staff quarters, abducting one Dr. SO
By CrossRiverWatch admin CrossRiverWatch has gathered reliably from sources in the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC that former Cross River State Governor Liyel Imoke was yesterday quizzed at the Port Harcourt office of the Commission over his alleged involvement in the N23.29billion election bribe scandal. An operative of the Commission told CrossRivrWatch that Imoke
By CrossRiverWatch admin It is no longer news that the 260km Super Highway, one of Governor Ayade’s signature projects expected to commence from Bakassi to Obudu and empty into the northern part of the country, is meeting with opposition from various quarters, ranging from environmentalists to affected communities to the government at the center. This
By Our Correspondent The nucleus of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party PDP in Cross River State may soon explode as protests have continued to trail the various Ward and Local government congresses in the State held last week and how the congress for the state level scheduled for today Tuesday 10th May would produce an
By CrossRiverWatch admin The Director General of Cross River State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Dr Betta Edu on behalf of the State Governor, Senator Ben Ayade, received 10 direct solar drive refrigerators and 10 solar power sets from European Union Support Immunization Governance in Nigeria (E.U SIGN) for the State. Handing over the items, E.U
By Jonathan Ugbal The Cross River State government and health sector stakeholders say there is need for its indigenes and residents to adjust lifestyle choices in a bid to fight diseases attributed to lifestyle choices with the most prevalent being hypertension. The Commissioner for Health, Inyang Asibong led the call Friday, in Calabar when she,
By Utang Bassey The Cross River State chapter of the APC Friday, in Calabar announced its intent to wrestle the governorship position from the PDP in 2019 with party unity and the avoidance of impunity identified as major strategies to achieve the goal. Members of the party made this known while speaking at the first
By CrossRiverWatch admin Court proceedings in the ongoing case of extra-judicial killing involving 14 dismissed police officers, continued on Thursday, April 28, 2016 with one Dr. T. I Ugbem, a consultant pathologist with the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, tendering a certified true copy of the post mortem examination he conducted on the late Derek