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2022 In Review: 22 Investigations That Exposed Corruption In Cross River State

by sysadmin s3c
January 1, 2023

By CrossRiverWatch Admin Founded on the principles of open governance and accountability, through investigative journalism CrossRiverWatch published 22 investigative reports that exposed corruption in Cross River State last year. The reports were published under different projects supported by Civic Media Lab, Climate Tracker, Policy Alert, Y Monitor, I-79 Media Consults, Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism,

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CrossRiverWatch Admits Industrial Training Students From UNICROSS, Enjoin Them To Be Open To Learn New Things

by sysadmin s3c
December 15, 2022

By Etido Okon The foremost investigative media outfit in Cross River State, CrossRiverWatch has admitted a new set of Industrial Training (IT) students. As it is a tradition for higher institutions to send out students of various departments for industrial attachment to get practical experience as part of mandatory course fulfillment, the online media outlet

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Former CrossRiverWatch Reporter Wins Media Entrepreneur Award

by sysadmin s3c
November 12, 2022

By CrossRiverWatch Admin Former CrossRiverWatch reporter, Slyvia Akpan has won the Media Entrepreneur award for the year 2022. The award organized by African Foundation for Young Media Professionals (AFYMP) is geared toward spurring young journalists, especially those still in the university. Held at Centre for Management Development, Magodo, Lagos State, student journalists were recognized in

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CrossRiverWatch, Hit FM, Others Receive Award For Fight Against Witchcraft Branding

by sysadmin s3c
November 10, 2022

By CrossRiverWatch Admin Foremost Cross River State investigative news outfit, CrossRiverWatch, and 5 other organizations and persons have been awarded in recognition of their “brevity and service to duty in protecting persons accused of witchcraft.” The award, the brainchild of Basic Rights Counsel Initiative, BRCI, an organization that is working to end witchcraft. branding and

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Police Invite CrossRiverWatch Publisher To Abuja, Jalingo Says He Needs Flight Ticket From Lagos, Accommodation, And Feeding

by sysadmin s3c
September 7, 2022

By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Police in Abuja have invited the publisher of CrossRiverWatch, Citizen Agba Jalingo. The invitation is in connection with the petition by Mrs. Alami Frank Ayade, wife of Gov. Ben Ayade’s younger brother, Frank Ayade. Recall that on August 19, 2022, unidentified Policemen barricaded Jalingo’s Lagos residence, and held his wife, and

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Ruminations: If Only The Emperor Had Known … BY AGBA JALINGO

by sysadmin s3c
September 4, 2022

You locked me up in jail for the first time for six months for doing nothing to you. You put me on a three years trial for horrible crimes like terrorism, treasonable felony, cultism, and an attempt to overthrow the government. My younger brother, Agbibia, who worked with me, died while you incarcerated me and

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Police Held Me Incommunicado In Abuja Abattoir Cell – Agba Jalingo

by sysadmin s3c
August 29, 2022

Activist and publisher of CrossRiverWatch, Agba Jalingo, who was arrested by the police in his Lagos home and whisked to Abuja allegedly on the order of the wife of the younger brother of the Governor of Cross River State, speaks to GODFREY GEORGE of Punch Newspaper about his experience. What led to your recent arrest by the