By Maxwell Effiong and Patrick Obia Interns of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH) have protested over 11 months unpaid salary. The management since August 2, 2021 suspended the interns for asking for their wages. The peaceful protest held today, Monday, in Calabar, the Cross River State capital. Their takeoff point was IBB Way by
By Archibong Jeremiah Ahead of planned peaceful protest, the Cross River State Police Command has invited leaders aggrieved interns of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH) for dialogue. The UCTH interns are currently preparing to exercise their fundamental rights to press home their demand to the management of the hospital who sacked them for
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Anti Cultism and Kidnapping Squad of the Cross River State command of the Nigerian Police Force has rescued Ogwa Godwin Samuel who was kidnapped on Wednesday in Calabar. Mr. Samuel was shoved through the roof of his home after his abductors toor the aluminum roofing sheet, broke his ceiling to get
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Kidnappers may have developed a new strategy to abduct victims which now include gaining access to buildings via the roof of houses. This was the case at 8 miles in Calabar on Wednesday morning when kidnappers broke into the residence of one Mr. Godwin Samuel and whisked him away. Images obtained by
By CrossRiverWatch Admin There was pomp and glitz at Government House Calabar on Tuesday as the Cross River Government and the federal ministry of interior spared no expense for comfort to commission one firefighting truck. The truck is one out of about 44 trucks, about 20 ambulances and some tankers procured by the federal government
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