By Utang Bassey and Jonathan Ugbal The level of insecurity has heightened in Calabar South local government area of Cross River State with continuous reports of bag and valuables snatching as well as increased gangster activities CrossRiverWatch can authoritatively report. This is even as the State Security Adviser Jude Ngaji paraded 78 alleged criminal elements
By CrossRiverWatch admin The State Security Adviser, SSA, to Governor Ben Ayade, Jude Ngaji, Tuesday in Calabar allegedly ordered the stripping and beating of two Obudu chiefs who honoured an invitation by the SSA to attend a security meeting in his office in Calabar. Chief Moses Odikpo, Chief Denis Ugani Ujie, both of Okworotung clan
By Our Correspondent Cross River State governor, Senator Ben Ayade, has called on the Federal Government and the international community to support the anti-deforestation efforts of the state government to preserve and manage its rich forest resource rather than work against the construction of the superhighway by his administration. Ayade who made the call while
By CrossRiverWatch admin Cross River Governor, Senator Ben Ayade has begun issuing letters of appointment to Commissioners and other aides over six months after announcing their appointments. Sources in Government House say the appointees got a message last week directing them to proceed to the governor’s office and obtain their appointment letters. According to the
By Jonathan Ugbal; Government House Correspondent The government of Cross River State has directed the Onyadama and Enyima communities of Obubra and Yakurr local government areas to evacuate the disputed land between the two communities which led to a communal crisis recently. “Nobody from Onyadama or Enyima goes into that land until the Boundary Commission
By CrossRiverWatch admin Things were looking up for William Obio when he decided to invest more in his logging business. For the first time in years, his nine children and three brothers were eating well, and he could support his over half-a-dozen team of machine operators, saw men, scouts, and wood carriers. Such success, rare
By Our Reporter The State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Joe Abang, Esq has put together a fund raising meeting to raise one hundred million naira (N100, 000, 000) for an ultra modern vocational skills acquisition/development center in his community. The Attorney General who hails from Oboso, Ogoja local government area of the State
By CrossRiverWatch admin In continuation of a series of scheduled nationwide and sectoral town hall meetings, the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo yesterday took questions from 100 pressure groups at the Oranmiyan Hall of the Airport Hotel in Lagos, where he assured Nigerians that the Lagos – Calabar railway was safe and secured in the 2016