By Jonathan Ugbal Governor Benedict Ayade on Wednesday appointed 90 aides including an ex aide, Edet Okon Asim whom his immediate past Attorney General okayed for trial for alleged sexual offenses. A statement signed by his spokesman, Christian Ita and issued in Calabar listed 90 Senior Special Advisers and Special Advisers. This is in sharp
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Cross River State Governor, Sen. Ben Ayade has instructed all Commissioners and other political appointees to refrain from making public statements without clearance. The directive is contained in statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Christian Ita and made public by his subordinate Edward Ntebri. See extract below. “Henceforth no Commissioner
By CrossRiverWatch Admin A Federal High Court sitting in Nigeria’s southern port city of Calabar has rescheduled its ruling on the provision of an electronic verbatim recorder in the trial of journalist and rights activist, Agba Jalingo to Wednesday, December 11, 2019. Four count charges bordering on terrorism, conspiracy and attempts to bring down the
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Police Force in Nigeria has failed to arraign rights activist and Journalist, Agba Jalingo, 33 days after his arrest. Mr. Jalingo who is the publisher of online news platform, CrossRiverWatch was criminally abducted from his Lagos residence on August 22, 2019 and was forced to embark on a 25 hour torturous
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Chief Press Secretary to the Cross River State Governor, Mr. Christian Ita has given a rundown of his principal’s second term 100 days in office. Mr. Ita is hopeful that the Ayade administration will achieve its goals. Watch video below;
The unlawful arrest and persecution of Agba Jalingo, Editor-in-Chief/Publisher of CrossRiverWatch for trying to hold the Cross River State Government accountable, is one that must be condemned by all well meaning citizens, we must all rise now to stand against it. In no democracy anywhere in the world is taking one’s Government to task a
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigerian police has arrested the publisher of CrossRiverWatch, a Cross River State-based newspaper, Agba Jalingo. An editor of the paper, Archibong Jeremiah, told PREMIUM TIMES about the development, Thursday evening. He said Mr. Jalingo was arrested at his Lagos residence and taken to SARS office
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Cross River State Governor, Senator Ben Ayade has barred Government House Correspondents of CrossRiverWatch, Hit FM, FAD FM and Sparkling FM from covering his activities. The Governor’s directive, CrossRiverWatch gathered, was given after the recent release of a video where he, alongside his deputy, Professor Ivara Esu were dancing to tunes