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One Shot Dead In Calabar South Over Cult Rivalry

By CrossRiverWatch admin Information reaching CrossRiverWatch has it that some members of a criminal cult group Supreme Vikings Confraternity, yesterday, Friday 22/05/2015 short and killed a member of another rival gang, Skilo. The incident which occurred between 7:15pm and 7:30pm at a local joint in Effanga Nsa street Calabar South, Cross River State (the street

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AIB Releases Obudu Plane Crash Report After Seven Years

By CrossRiverWatch admin Seven years after the crash of a Beechcraft 1900D aircraft in Obudu, the Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) has released the final report of the investigation carried out on four air accidents that occurred in the Nigerian airspace within the period. The report is coming seven years after the accident had occurred. According

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I Don’t See PDP Surviving Beyond Two Years In Cross River State – Venatius Ikem

By CrossRiverWatch admin Venatius Ikem is a former Chairman of Obudu LGA in Cross River state. He is also a former national Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and a former Commissioner in Cross River State. Vena, as he is fondly called is very blunt and controversial, and in this interview with CrossRiverWatch,

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Ayade Will Do Better Than Imoke – Muri Munene

By Archibong Jeremiah His Royal Highness, Muri Munene Effiong Okokon Mbukpa, the Paramount Ruler of the Efut nation (Calabar South) Cross River State has expressed high hopes that the incoming administration led by Senator Ben Ayade will do exceedingly better than the present administration of Senator Liyel Imoke. The Muri Munene bared his mind in

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Five Cultists Arrested With Arms In Obudu, Moved To Calabar

By Jonathan Ugbal Tension around the urban wards one and two in Obudu local government area is high even as there have been several arrests by officers of the Nigeria Police Force NPF, as they begin stop and search operations. Suspected fleeing cultists have been worst hit according to security sources with one of the

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Cross River Youths Angry With PDP Over Comments On Ndoma-Egba

By CrossRiverWatch admin A group of youths operating on the platform of the Cross River Central Youth Movement, CRCYM, have reacted angrily to the comments made by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Cross River State against the Leader of the Senate, Victor Ndoma-Egba, SAN, describing him as an unstable member of the party. Chairman

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Obudu: Kidnapped Business Man Released After Paying N1.5m Ransom

By Jonathan Ugbal A businessman and Director of Sunday and Andoya Aluminium, Mr. Sunday Anagwe, kidnapped in the early hours of Monday May, 18, 2015 has been released after paying N1.5m CrossRiverWatch can report. CrossRiverWatch first gathered from a family source that Mr. Sunday was released in the early hours of today after the demands

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Ben Ayade And The Poverty Of Bourgeoisie Mentality BY PRINCEWILL ODIDI

The poverty of bourgeoisie mentality is like a canker-worm that has eaten deep into the Nigerian development concept. How do we explain a 6 billion naira specialist hospital built in Yenogua almost a decade ago, never used, today the building is said to be sinking? We have not addressed basic primary health care, yet we

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