By Sylvia Akpan Listen To The Report As the world celebrates International Day for Street Children, Non-Governmental Organizations in Calabar, the Cross River State capital have emphasized the need for a reduced number of children on the streets. The International Day for Street Children is a day set aside on April 12 annually to acknowledge
Almost all front line independent mainstream media organizations in the West like CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, Fox, NYT, Telegraph, Washington Post, AP, Reuters, MSN, RFI are all tagged “Western Media Propaganda” outfits or accused of leaning towards the Republicans or Democrats or Labor or Conservatives or the Lib Dems, by those who find issues with
By Jonathan Ugbal Oliver Orok, the Commissioner for Sustainable Development Goals in Cross River State, intends to present no fewer than four witnesses and seven documents in his libel suit against online Newspaper, CrossRiverWatch, its publisher, Agba Jalingo and a reporter, Ushang Ewa. Counsel to Orok, A. E. Oqua Esq, disclosed this during pre-trial in
By Patrick Obia Civic Media Lab (CML) has trained journalists in advanced investigative reporting in Calabar, the Cross River State capital. The training is a component of CML Local Investigative Reporting for Increasing Government Accountability and Transparency at the Grassroots Project. Held at the secretariat of Association of Cross River Online Journalists (ACROJ), the facilitator
From January 2022, several persons will declare for governorship in our State. Many of their followers and loyalists will begin to address them as “Excellency.” It doesn’t matter whether they eventually win or not, the Excellency is just to massage their ego. Depending on the financial strength of the aspirants, some will begin to ride
By Jonathan Ugbal The witness of the claimants in Suit number HC/296/2019 of the High Court of Cross River State failed to show up on Monday for cross examination, elongating the matter of alleged libel and defamation of the Cross River Microfinance Bank. Online newspaper, CrossRiverWatch and the Publisher, Agba Jalingo are listed as second
Weekend File is a news program on CrossRiverWatch television and radio that delves deep beyond the headlines, news, views and analysis that dominated public discourse within the week in Cross River State and the Niger Delta region. Mr. Richard Ndoma, Cross River State Correspondents Chapel Secretary and Leadership Newspaper Correspondent was the guest in episode
By Sylvia Felix Award winning veteran journalist, Isine Ibanga has urged journalists to track the performance of budgets in the State in order to promote accountability. Ibanga, who publishes The Next Edition, stated this Monday in a virtual training session for staff of Cross River’s foremost online Newspaper, CrossRiverWatch on investigative journalism where he averred