By Our Correspondent Bishop Emmah Isong, Chairman, Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) in Cross River State has accused Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers state of bribing 500 Pastors to support Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Amaechi is the Director General (DG) of the All Progressives Congress, APC Presidential Campaign
By Our Correspondent As part of their corporate social responsibility, operators of oil and gas facilities at the Calabar Free Trade Zone, today donated some Security Patrol Vehicles to the state government, as measures to maintain security around the zone and the entire metropolis. Leader of the group, and Managing Director of Ibafon Petroleum Mr.
By Our Correspondent Governor Liyel Imoke of Cross River State yesterday joined other stakeholders in Lagos to sign up to the Women Arise Initiative Campaign Against Violence and Terror – #StopVAP. The signatories also included Professor Chidi Odinkalu, Chairman, National Human Rights Commission, Dr. Joe Okei Odumakin, President, Women Arise, Minister for Police Affairs, Adesiyan
By Our Correspondent TechCamp West Africa 2015 recently hosted 100 best and brightest private and social entrepreneurs from across the African continent to focus on entrepreneurship as a contributor to job creation. The annual gathering which held from 6th to 8th of February in Accra, Ghana, saw attendees from Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria,
By Archibong Jeremiah The management of Cross River State College of Education, Awi/Akamkpa has suspended 7 students indefinitely for secret cult related offenses. This was made known through a notice from the college management signed by the college Registrar, Barrister Uno Ogban and made available to CrossRiverWatch. Excerpts from the notice reads: “Following a police
By Jeremiah Archibong Cross River State Governor, Senator Liyel Imoke yesterday commissioned a 60-bed fully equipped General Hospital in Ukem, Odukpani Local Government Area. The commissioning was part of activities for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP campaign rally which held in Odukpani Local Government Area. According to a statement from government, the hospital which is
By Aplefe Ojong On Sunday, February 8, 2015, luck ran out on 27 years old Stephen Nyong, a member of a gang of serial rapists who have been terrorizing Inyang Edem street, Calabar and its environ for more than a decade now. CrossRiverWatch gathered that Stephen Nyong a native of Ikono Local Government Area of
By Raymond Ekemini The Senate of the University of Calabar has appointed two new Deputy Vice Chancellors, DVC. According to our source, a senior lecturer in the Department of Medical Laboratory Science, where one of the new DVC was appointed from, the new DVCs are Professor Zana Akpagu, DVC Administration and and Professor Maisie Etuk