“As a symbolic demonstration of our protest against autocracy and military-style repression, PUNCH (all our print newspapers, The PUNCH, Saturday PUNCH, Sunday PUNCH, PUNCH Sports Extra, and digital platforms, most especially Punchng.com) will henceforth prefix Buhari’s name with his rank as a military dictator in the 80s, Major General, and refer to his administration as
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Agba Jalingo, publisher of CrossRiverWatch, has asked the Federal High Court to reassign his case to another judge. Jalingo, who is standing trial on charges bordering on conspiracy, terrorism, treasonable felony and attempt to topple the Government of Cross River, said Simon Amobeda, the judge hearing the case, can no longer be
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The National Judicial Council had cleared Justice Akon Ikpeme, Acting Chief Judge of Cross River State High Court of bribery allegation involving Senator Dino Milaye in 2015. In a letter dated 9 May, 2019 to the petitioners (Mr. Olarewaju Suraju, Chairman Civil Society Network Against Corruption and Senator Smart Adeyemi, CON) that
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 Mrs. Violet Agba, wife of detained journalist and human rights activist, Agba Jalingo, who is facing trial at a Federal High Court in Calabar, Cross River State, for alleged treasonable felony, speaks with ADA WODU about the travails of her husband. How long have you and Agba Jalingo been married? We got
By Archibong Jeremiah Dr. Mike Ushie, Cross River State Independent Electoral Commission (CROSIEC) Chairman has urged Cross Riverians not to take to social media and criticize his commission. He made the call Wednesday while meeting with party leaders where he issued the 2019 Local Government Election Guidelines and Timetable in the commission. Ushie went on
By Archibong Jeremiah The Cross River State Independent Electoral Commission (CROSIEC) released guidelines and timetable for the conduct of Local Government Council elections in Cross River State. The 35 page document was published yesterday (Wednesday) and issued (hard-copy) by the Commission. See guidelines and timetable below.
By Kelvin Ololo One of the All Progressive Congress (APC) aspirant in 2019 governorship primaries in Cross River State, Mr. John Upan Odey Jnr. has termed Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) as a commission with no character and ambition piloted by politician who budget funds for idea that never comes to live. John Odey inferred