By Agency Reporter The Cross River House of Assembly has commenced activities to amend the Anti-Cultism Act which was passed into law in April 2002 during the administration of a former Governor of the State, Mr. Donald Duke. The bill, christened ‘Cross River State Public Order Prohibition of Secret Cult And Offensive Weapons Bill 2019′
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The idea of cultism is not strange to the human community. This phenomenon has existed for centuries in various forms and capacity. According to the Merriam Webster dictionary, “Cultism is a great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement or work.” A cult is a group of people with same ideology. It
By CrossRiverWatch Admin I used the word cultism only for the caption. They are gangstas and that is how I will call them throughout. Elsewhere, the Italian government is mopping up members of two Nigerian criminal gangs, the Vikings and their rival Black Axe confraternity, operating drug and prostitution rings in the Sicilian capital, Palermo.
By CrossRiverWatch Admin One interesting component about the English Language is that a single word can have more than one meaning and its meaning varies depending on usage and context. Now the generic word for this conversation is “cult”. Below the word is defined. According to Cowan Douglas, E (2003) in a publication titled Bearing
By CrossRiverWatch Admin At least two lives were lost Thursday following a daredevil raid in a renewed gangster’s rivalry in Boki local government area of central Cross River State. It is still unclear the gangster groups that are involved but findings by CrossRiverWatch so far reveal that at least two died at Babsin and Okundi,
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Cross River state Commissioner of Police, Obi Ozeh, on Monday told newsmen in Calabar that a serving Corporal who is also a member of a criminal gang, was involved in the gun duel that ensued between gangsters and the police along Eyamba street in Calabar South LGA on 11th of October,
By Ogar Monday A boy identified as Chigozie William was Tuesday afternoon hacked to death by an angry mob for stealing a moblie phone around Orok Orok by Mount Zion and robbing somewhere at Uwanse in Calabar South, Cross River State with his other five gang members who fled been killed. Chigozie, who is said
By Godshield Kanjal for PremiumTimes Many are feared dead in an ongoing clash between two rival gangs in Calabar South Local Government Area of Cross River State, the police, residents and witnesses have told PREMIUM TIMES. Trouble started when a tricycle operator belonging to a cult group named the “Marvians,” refused to pay a loading