By Patrick Obia The Chief Judge of Cross River State, Hon. Justice Akon Ikpeme has convicted Mr. Godswill Idongesit Brownson, for rape of two children aged 5 and 7 years (names withheld to prevent stigmatisation) in Calabar, the capital of Cross River State. Godswill, 29 years, bagged the 12 years sentence after he was found
By Patrick Obia Nigeria female table tennis representative to the reversed 2020 Tokyo Olympics in Japan, Asia, Offiong Edem, has said her dream is to see champions spring up in her community, Bayside, Calabar South Local Government Area of Cross River State. She stated this at the climax of “Bayside Youths Street Table Tennis Tournament”
By Patrick Obia Weeks after Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River defected from the People’s Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress (APC), more of his aides have resigned declining to defect with him. The Governor has also sacked another commissioner, Francis Etta who refused to defect with him. Among those who have resigned recently
By Patrick Obia The Peoples Democratic party (PDP) has opined that it’ll leave no storm unturned to reclaim Cross River State from the All Progressives Congress (APC). It went on to assert that the guilty ones are always looking for where to hide but eventually gets smoked out. The PDP South-South Zonal Chairman, Mr. Dan
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The protest by civil servants engaged by the Cross River State in 2017 and 2018 continued on Wednesday at the Governor’s office complex in Calabar over the non payment of salaries despite working over the years. The protests began on Tuesday, with the leader of the civil servants Mr. David disclosing that
By Hafeez Hanafi, Punch Newspaper The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Person, NAPTIP, has begun profiling 22 teenagers rescued from a brothel on the premises of Kolab Hotel on Ayetoro Road, Ogun State, with a view to rehabilitating them. The agency had also launched a manhunt for the syndicate involved in the
By Patrick Obia and Rachel Idim “I am pleased to announce to you that whatever has a beginning has an end, I think today should be the end of our sitting. I came, I saw and I conquered. Let’s not say it’s a good end but a beautiful end. The panel has been one of
By Oge Udegbunam and Mary Izuaka, Premium Times Twelve out of Nigeria’s 36 States paid the least attention to the implementation of real and people-impacting projects, classified as capital expenditure in the 2019 Budget, recording a less than 30 percent performance, a new report says. A report by the civic advocacy group, BudgIT, said among