By Raymond Ekemini As part of the preparations to welcome to fresh students admitted for the 210/2015 academic session of the University of Calabar, the office of the Students Union Director of Welfare, Comrade Alawa John has fumigated the entire hostels in the institution. The fumigation exercise came as a result of the recent complaints
By CrossRiverWatch admin A man named, Elewana Godwin of River Basin Authority, 8 Miles Calabar has been accused of shooting a 22 year old boy, Douglas Ojugbo on March 10, 2015, for allegedly sulking his daughter. Some neigbours who were physically terrified and only managed to talk to CrossRiverWatch about the incident, after begging not
By Raymond Ekemini The Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Prof. James Epoke, has approved a total sum of seventeen million, Four hundred and fifty thousand (17,450,000) as the student union government budget for the 2014/2015 academic session. The approved budget, a copy of which was made available to CrossRiverWatch, is jointly signed by
By Aplefe Ojong The Federal High Court 6 sitting in Maitama, Abuja and presided over by Justice Adetokunbo Ademola (Jr.) on Friday March 20, 2015 declined jurisdiction in a case filed by Joe Agi (SAN) against the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the PDP gubernatorial candidate in the April
By CrossRiverWatch admin Generational Voices (GenVoices) is partnering with British Council and Enough is Enough (EiE) to deliver a Citizens’ Debate on the upcoming elections in Calabar, the Cross River State capital. This will be facilitated through GenVoices’ conversational platform called Gentalks. This builds on the extensive work that GenVoices and its partners have done
By Archibong Jeremiah The newly reintroduced stop and search operation by the Police in Cross River State has returned with its attendant challenge of extortion by policemen at different check points that they have erected around Calabar and environs. It will be recalled that in a recent courtesy call to the State Governor’s office, the
I obviously do not know who owns the road but it is a total disaster. I’ll tell you why. I set out on a journey to Obudu, Yes, my dear local government. Through the only means of transportation visible to the northern part of the state. I wasn’t frightened by the thought of passing through
By Archibong Jeremiah/Uduak Pepple Investigation by CrossRiverWatch has revealed that the Cross River State Water Board Limited, CRSWBL which is the only company handling water supply in the state has not supplied water to Calabar metropolis for over month. Several complaints by residents of the state capital had caused CrossRiverWatch reporters to go round the