By Emma Una Police have confirmed the arrest of three persons in Calabar over the stabbing to death of one David Agama, a chief security officer with Cross River State Cultural Center Board, by unknown persons. The arrest of the suspects, which include the deceased’s girlfriend, according to the Cross River Police Command Public Relations
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The premises of the Calabar Urban Development Agency, CUDA, has been sealed for a month running, following a magistrate court judgment against the state government over non-payment of N12.3 million annual rent covering 2014-2016 to the property owner and octogenarian, Chief Mrs. Ekanem Oku Kurz. Vanguard reports that the annual rent of
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The promise to locally source for and process raw materials to feed the Cross River Garment factory through the cultivation of cotton farm and ginnery within the state has received a boost with the state government acquiring 1000 hectares of land from the people of Woda in Yala LGA for the cultivation
By Our Correspondent President Muhammadu Buhari has reassured the Cross River State governor, Senator Ben Ayade of the commitment of the Federal Government to see to the actualization of the Bakassi Deep Seaport embarked upon by the state government. The President and the governor held discussions behind closed doors at the Aso Rock presidential villa
By CrossRiverWatch Admin A driver attached to the Cross River State Commissioner for Commerce and Industry, Calistus Okune, was on Wednesday remanded in the Afokang Prison in Calabar for assaulting two officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps. Okune was alleged to have acted on orders of his boss, Mr. Peter Egba, after the Toyota
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Dear Hon. Commissioner Mike Eraye, I’m sorry I had to use this means to communicate to you. I would have sent a hard copy letter to your ministry if I were in Calabar. Sadly, I have not visited Calabar and felt at ease ever since I was declared wanted by the Attorney
By Emma Una The beheading of a young man by a chief hunter, purportedly for the burial ceremony of a high chief, weekend, led to hostilities between two neighbouring communities in Obubra Local Government Area in central Cross River State, which has left over 10 people dead and many houses razed. The conflict between the
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Cross River State Ministry of Health has warned against the increasing cases of kerosene explosion related cases in the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital in the past few days. The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Inyang Asibong is calling on the general public to be mindful of the type of kerosene they