By CrossRiverWatch Admin Commuters plying the Calabar – Ikom highway are currently stranded at Ibiae, Biase Local Government Area due to traffic jam following an accident by a truck. The truck’s bucket which holds the goods tipped over while the truck was trying to cross a culvert under reconstruction as part of the work for
By Godwin Otang, Tribune Newspaper The Nigerian Navy Ship Victory (NNSV) has arrested three suspected smugglers with one thousand, two hundred and nine (1,209) bags of illegally smuggled parboiled rice along the waterways. The suspects and the goods have been handed over to the Nigerian Customs Service in Calabar, on Monday. The suspects, Humble Edet,
I have read some reactions to yesterday’s incident with the Aero Contractors flight that was to take me and other passangers from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International airport, Abuja to the Margaret Ekpo International airport, Calabar. Some of the reactions ranged from logical, reasonable and some boardering on absurdity. I am a firm believer in the
By Jonathan Ugbal Lagos bound passengers of Aero Cally are currently stranded at the Margaret Ekpo International Airport in Calabar following the failure of Flight N2123 from Abuja to land after being cleared to do so. Aero Cally is a contraption of Aero Contractors, an existing airline and Cally Air, the proposed airline of the
By Jonathan Ugbal Telecommunications giant, Globacom Nigeria has launched fourth generation long term evolution (4G-LTE) in new Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Cross River State. These include Odukpani, Akamkpa and Yala LGAs. The service is currently the most advanced in the country and guarantees faster internet services while the world awaits wide deployment of the
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Policemen attached to Operation Akpakwu, a joint task force of the Cross River State government have rescued a kidnapped victim hours after her abduction in Calabar, the State capital. “Today, 20th September 2021, at about 11:00AM, one Mrs Ruth Jerome of No 3B Ikot Nkebre, in Calabar was kidnapped from her resident
By Patrick Obia The renovated secretariat of the Cross River State chapter of the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) was last weekend commissioned by the Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Professor Florence Obi. The Chairman, Daniel Obo had told CrossRiverWatch that the NYCN was no longer been taken serious and as part of
By Patrick Obia The University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH) on Wednesday, became the first tertiary medical institution in South South Nigeria to perform an open heart surgery. The Chief Medical Director (CMD), Dr. Ikpeme Ikpeme, disclosed this in an appreciation letter to staff which said the patient was safely wheeled out of Intensive Care