The recent law prescribing death penalty for perpetrators of kidnapping in Cross River emerged as a dominant, mainstream thriller that shocked the conscience of society. While I condemn kidnapping in its entirety, I would argue however that the new law is not human rights compliant especially when mirrored against the nature of crime and its
By Archibong Jeremiah, House Of Assembly Correspondent The Cross River State House of Assembly, CRSHA has been accused of back stabbing for enacting the Cross River State Water Front Law without due consultation with the landlords through the appropriate quarters. The accusation was made by leaders of the water front communities yesterday morning in a
By Ubong Edet It is wonderful that after the first floor of a building is set, that very structure takes another architectural design. This is just the case with UNICAL Alumni uncompleted building, a project started about five years ago. The said building was to serve as the secretariat of the Alumni of University of
By Our Correspondent Governor of Cross River state, Senator Ben Ayade has said that the plight of the common people who have been remanded in prison custody for over eight months without trial and the fate of the young lawyers in Cross River whose practice has been checkmated for more than eight months due to
By Our Correspondent The Cross River State House of Assembly is considering a bill for a law to establish an anti-graft agency in the state. Speaker of the Cross River State House of Assembly Hon. John Gaul Lebo stated this Thursday when he received Labor Leaders, Civil Society Organizations and Trade Unionists who had stormed
By Jeremiah Archibong Foundation for Partnership Initiative in the Niger Delta, PIND has launched an SMS early warning system in the region and trained 30 members of Partners For Peace, P4P to man the system in Cross River State. According to the Coordinator of Peace-Building Unit of PIND, Nkasi Wodu the SMS line is to
By Aplefe Ojong Peter Ukorebi, a 2013 graduate of Pereka Secondary Commercial School, Calabar, was born on March 25, 1993 in Calabar, Cross River State. Right from his days in the secondary school, Peter had shown sufficient interest in the sciences and things that can be done practically. In and outside the school, Peter has
By Jeremiah Archibong Engineer Moses Akpoba, a staff at ExxonMobil, Eket Akwa Ibom State has built a borehole for his community; Bateba, Etonko, Etoi streets Calabar and its environs. While unveiling the bore hole recently, he revealed that it is because of frequent water scarcity in his area and seeing how people around suffer to