By Patrick Obia The Chief Judge of Cross River State, Hon. Justice Akon Ikpeme has convicted Mr. Godswill Idongesit Brownson, for rape of two children aged 5 and 7 years (names withheld to prevent stigmatisation) in Calabar, the capital of Cross River State. Godswill, 29 years, bagged the 12 years sentence after he was found
By Ike Uchechukwu, Vanguard News A middle aged man, Christian Edem Eyo has confessed to slaughtering his neighbour and aunty who was in her sixties. Vanguard News learned that the 24 years old man butchered his aunty, burying her head in a pit he had dug inside his room which was well over 10 feet
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Police authorities just made a sharp u-turn and demanded Citizen Agba Jalingo, Mr. Jonathan Ugbal and Barrister James Ibor to return to the station. According to CrossRiverWatch intelligence report, the officer who called them back is one female ACP who’s details are being investigated requested for them. The ACP had invited
By Ike Uchechukwu, Vanguard Newspaper The Commissioner of Police in Cross River State, CP Sikiru Akande on Friday paraded 11 suspects apprehended by Operation Restore Peace for sundry crimes including Kidnapping, armed robbery, cultism, unlawful possession of firearms. The commissioner disclosed that the police in the State were back with full force to deal ruthlessly
By Archibong Jeremiah Information reaching our newsroom from News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, has it that Operation Akpakwu has clampdown on a baby factory in Calabar, the Cross River State capital. The baby factory is located at Effioawan street in Calabar South. Relatively, a building at Howell street, also Calabar South was destroyed for involvement in
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Cross River Police Command has bursted a criminal hideout at the popular Watt market in Calabar, the State’s capital. 14 suspects were arrested at the site. The team was led by the Commissioner of Police, CP Sikiru Akande. More details…
By Hafeez Hanafi, Punch Newspaper The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Person, NAPTIP, has begun profiling 22 teenagers rescued from a brothel on the premises of Kolab Hotel on Ayetoro Road, Ogun State, with a view to rehabilitating them. The agency had also launched a manhunt for the syndicate involved in the
By Ada Wodu, Punch Newspaper Scores of gangsters have been killed in a renewed cult war in the Akpabuyo and Bakassi Local Government Areas of Cross River State. It was gathered that three suspected gangs dominant in the area include Skylo, Mafia and Black Scorpion. They were said to have been attacking one another since