By Archibong Jeremiah Hopes that the Cross River State University of Technology, CRUTECH will soon resume academic activities were dashed today after the staff unions and the students were unable to reach a compromise. Arising from a joint meeting with the various staff union leaders in the University in respect to the ongoing industrial strike
By Raymond Ekemini The students of the University of Calabar have said that they are set to take laws into their hands unless the school management is able to restore electricity supply for the students who are still writing their examination. The entire University has been in total darkness for a protracted period regardless of
By Archibong Jeremiah Information reaching CrossRiverWatch indicate that some unknown persons in Calabar are trying to create a motor-able road in an erosion prone area where a huge ravine spanning thousands of square kilometers has been located for over 15 years. According to Mr. Umoh Etim, Branch Manager, Calabar Homeland Hotels (CHE) who spoke to
The Truth They Desperately Want To Keep Secret For some people the word internet sounds like strange language while to some, it sounds like what they understand but they can’t still figure out what is happening in there. If you fall in any of these category, don’t worry again because I have decided to share
PART I: HEALTHFUL-Words This week’s Healthful Words on CrossRiverWatch is a sequel of a previous quote drawn from World Health Report 1995 by the World Health Organization. “I was hungry and you formed a committee to investigate my hunger. I was homeless and you filed a report on my plight. I was sick and you
By Our Correspondent Ndidem of the Quas, Ndidem Thomas Ika Ika Oqua, has confessed that there is no part Cross River State that has not benefited from dividends of democracy from the Governor Liyel Imoke-led administration in the state. The Ndidem who made the disclosure when the Cross River State chapter of the Peoples Democratic
“It’s possible to have a community radio and TV station transmitting news to Yakurr communities at home and in the diaspora, specifically on governance and development issues. And it’s possible to expand it across Cross River State and use space technology to break the monopoly of CRBC. The sad reality is that when you take
By Jeremiah Archibong CrossRiverWatch can confirm that 5 inmates at the Afokang Prison were this morning shot dead and 12 others critically injured in an attempted jail break. A Warder who is guarding the prison armory was also shot in the hand. A prison official who spoke to CrossRiverWatch said the inmates after their usual