I am moved to send you a note from the confines of my loneliness. By cosmic grace, the authorities of Afokang prison in Calabar where I am confined provided a television in an open hall for all of us who our deeds and/or misdeeds have confluenced. So I have the rare privilege of seeing how
By Emmanuel Ulayi Tech giant, Microsoft and the Cross River State Government have entered into a partnership to establish an ICT/Data Academy in Calabar, the State capital. This development is a boost to the efforts of Governor Ben Ayade to make Calabar the first smart city in Nigeria. Speaking in his office at the end
1. His investigative article, “How Ayade Approved and Diverted 500 million Naira for Cross River Micro Finance Bank” is true. No one has said otherwise. 2. Till date, the Cross River State Government hasn’t come clean on questions raised by the investigation: a) Where is the money? b) Nine months after, why has no one
By Patrick Obia Following the security challenges stirring at Cross River State and Nigeria on the face, Obol Lopon of Mkpani, Obol Sunday Obono; former lawmaker, Alex Irek and the Chairman, Preventive and Early Warning Committee of the Partner for Peace, Alhaji Shabaan Abdullahi, have said that all hands must be on deck to curb
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Our newsroom can confirm that Citizen Agba Jalingo will be arraigned tomorrow (Wednesday) at the Federal High Court Calabar (Highway opposite PDP Secretariat) Court room 2. The Court will seat by 9am prompt. Jalingo has been in Police custody for 33 days without trial. His detention and rights violation has been topical
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 Online Publisher Association of Nigeria (OPAN) has urged the Police and Nigerian authorities to drop all the outrageous charges preferred against, Mr. Agba Jalingo, a journalist and Publisher of Calabar-based news website, CrossRiverWatch and release him from detention immediately. OPAN in a statement by President, Austyn Ogannah and Daniel Elombah, General
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Cross River State House of Assembly is considering a bill to change the State owned technology University to a conventional institution. The bill seeks to change the name from Cross River University of Technology to Cross River University. The disclosure was made by the Speaker Hon. Eteng Jonah Williams when he