By Odue Gloria Our newsroom has just confirmed that it was a false alarm that there was an attempt to kidnap the resident (name yet to be confirmed) in satellite town, Calabar Municipality in Cross River State. The incident supposedly occurred occurred penultimate Wednesday at about 10:30 pm. Contrary to an earlier report that the kidnappers
By David Hundeyin, West Africa Weekly A terrifying inside account of a secret alliance between Amnesty International Nigeria and the DSS On September 10, 2019, Kehinde Dada and Joseph Okonofua died at the hands of Nigerian Police. The two 23 year-olds were caught up in the violent response of Police officers to a student protest in the
By CrossRiverWatch Admin A day-old baby has been found lifeless in a waste bin around the Calabar-Calabar roundabout late Tuesday night. The baby who was already dead when The Parchment reporters arrived at the scene was suspected to have been abandoned there by the mother after delivery close to the Navy reference hospital. A scavenger
By Ada Wodu, Punch Newspaper A retired Assistant Inspector General of Police, Joseph Mbu, has been dragged to court by the Cross River State Government of Sen. Ben Ayade before a High Court sitting in the State capital, Calabar, for allegedly murdering one of his kinsmen, Ayuk Etta Ngon, in a community in Etung local
By Jonathan Ugbal and Patrick Obia Five out of the 17 people abducted by kidnappers along the Calabar channel on Monday have been released. The quintet – a child aged four, a pregnant woman, an old woman, a gunshot victim and the driver were blindfolded and dropped off at about 10:00AM at a beach in
By The Parchment A speedboat traveling along the Calabar channel was on Monday diverted by suspected pirates to an unknown destination. The boat departed the Marina ‘Safe Journey’ Harbor in Calabar, and was heading for Oron, Akwa Ibom State when it was attacked. Sources told The Parchment that the boat had mot left the Cross
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Four people are currently receiving treatment for gun wounds after men of the Nigerian Police Force shot to disperse villagers gathered at its divisional headquarters in Ogoja, locals say. They are being treated at the General Hospital in Ogoja which is directly opposite the police station. This comes on the heels of
By Emmanuel Uti, FIJ Emeka Okoro, a crypto trader based in Cross River State, has narrated how officers attached to the Akim Police Station in Calabar extorted N1.7 million from him in three weeks. On November 10, Okoro heard a strange knock at the door of his newly rented apartment in the Akim area of