By Sylvia Felix All is set for the interment of late Dr. Esther Onoyom-Ita, the Executive Director of Society for Youth Development and Rescue Initiative (SYDRI) who passed on after a protracted illness last year. In a public announcement made available by the Director of SYDRI, Emmanuel Onoyom-Ita, there will be interdenominational funeral service “rest
By Jonathan Ugbal A China National Heavy Duty Truck Group (CNHTC) Sinotruck Howo STW10 haulage vehicle has crushed to death, a Woman sergeant in the Nigerian Police Force in Calabar, the Cross River State capital. The unfortunate disaster happened at about 5:00PM at WAPI junction along the Murtala Muhammed Highway near the popular MCC by
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Four people are currently receiving treatment for gun wounds after men of the Nigerian Police Force shot to disperse villagers gathered at its divisional headquarters in Ogoja, locals say. They are being treated at the General Hospital in Ogoja which is directly opposite the police station. This comes on the heels of
By Emmanuel Uti, FIJ Emeka Okoro, a crypto trader based in Cross River State, has narrated how officers attached to the Akim Police Station in Calabar extorted N1.7 million from him in three weeks. On November 10, Okoro heard a strange knock at the door of his newly rented apartment in the Akim area of
It has been a full year today without you. I had never imagined life without you even for a second, but here I am in a new reality. On Thursday, 19th November 2020 you and your friends undertook that journey of love and friendship to join another friend in Ondo State for the burial of
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Dr. Idem Etuk Samuel, the owner of Mount Zion Medical Center who was accused of sexually harassing a female minor, was on Thursday, taken to the Federal Neuro Psychiatric Hospital in Calabar after he was arrested. Dr. Etuk was arrested on Thursday by the Cross River State command of the Nigerian Police
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Dr. Idem Etuk Samuel, the Chief Executive Officer of Mount Zion Medical Center in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, has been accused of defiling a 15-year-old teenager in his clinic. The Basic Rights Counsel Initiative, in a letter dated November 9, 2021 and addressed to the Commissioner of Police in Cross
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Cross River State Command of the Nigerian Police Force is seeking for more vehicles to patrol the state as the capital city of Calabar has been hit by a wave of kidnappings. The command’s spokesperson, Irene Ugbo, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, told Vanguard Newspapers that the command is trying its