By Archibong Jeremiah The Students Union Government President of University of Calabar, UNICAL, Comrade Ajang Emmanuel Junior of Law Department, year three in an exclusive interview with CrossRiverWatch has condemned the extra judicial killing of 6 young men in April this year out of whom one was a 3rd year student in the institution’s Department
By Our Correspondent United States President, Barack Obama, has said history showed that a free press remained a critical foundation for prosperous, open, and secure societies, allowing citizens to access information and hold their governments accountable, NAN reports. He said this in a statement issued by the White House in New York on Monday to
By Laureta Akpan CrossRiverWatch has reliably gathered that Policemen who were involved in the kidnap of a Lebanese national over the weekend have been rounded up by detectives from the State Criminal Investigation Department, Calabar and are now detained at the police headquarters, Diamond Hill, Calabar. The unidentified Lebanese was said to have been kidnapped
By Christiana Ukung Alawa/Jeremiah Archibong Despite the repeated claims by government at all levels that the people of Bakassi have been resettled and the Cross River State Government position on the issue which now revolves around payment of compensation by the federal government in perpetuity to the state, CrossRiverWatch visited the Bakassi Resettlement Camp at
By Ungwugyan Ado in Abuja/Aplefe Ojong in Calabar Prince Goddy Jedy Agba, Cross River 2015 PDP governorship aspirant has informed CrossRiverWatch in an exclusive chat that he will finally be arriving Calabar on Thursday, November 6, 2014 after a protracted period of absence. The former NNPC boss, while speaking to CrossRiverWatch in his Abuja home
By Aplefe Ojong The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Ad-hoc Ward Congresses to pick delegates that will vote at the party’s primaries that will elect the party’s flag bearers in all the elective positions from the state to the federal levels were carried out throughout the country last Saturday. In Cross River State, CrossRiverWatch discovered that
By Jonathan Ugbal and Cosmos Obi The students of Cross River University of Technology, CRUTECH main campus Calabar and music lovers have been tickled by top Nigerian performing musical acts: May D, Tekno and Selebobo at the Coke Studio Show, CSS. The show organized by the Nigerian branch of the soft drink company, the Coke
By Sylvia Etta A total sum of Eighteen billion, One Hundred and Sixteen million, Nine Hundred and forty-seven thousand, One Hundred and thirty-three naira and two kobo has been earmarked in the 2015 budget estimate of the Cross River State Government for the completion of ongoing projects in the state. Governor Liyel Imoke who made