Okuni, a village barely 13 km to Ikom shares boundary with some villages in Akampka Local government. This sounds like a surprise? Yes. Why then do one need to go through Apiapum Ugep, Adim Akpet to get to Akampka? It is within this context you can now understand Ben Ayade’s Super Highway that would shorten
By Aplefe Ojong The Governing Council, Management, Staff and Students of the University of Calabar have felicitated with the CrossRiverWatch Team on the celebration of the 3rd Anniversary of the media platform. A goodwill message signed by the Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor James Epoke says that the institution is happy with the great
By Jonathan Ugbal Floods to anybody resident in Calabar, the Cross River State capital have become a recurring decimal over the years as ravines and gully erosions have sacked communities with attendant loss of lives and properties running into several hundreds of millions if not billions of Naira. The Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project
By CrossRiverWatch admin Her name is Uduak, and it is a name that means “Resolve” from Akwa Ibom State in Nigeria. She is a Minister, recording artiste, author, composer, researcher, speaker and development practitioner. Uduak Daniel is poised to release her third album in Calabar: a package that is loaded with melody, inspiration and power.
There is no doubt about the passion and determination of the incoming government to transform the fortunes of Cross River State. The governor elect has ceased every opportunity since the elections, to reassure every citizen of the state of the need to remain confident in the capacity of the state and her people to consolidate
Yesterday, history was been recorded again in the prestigious University of Calabar, the home of Malabites and Malabresses of reasonable actions, as 6,395 students were officially welcomed and admitted into the membership of the university community by the Vice Chancellor, Professor James Epoke, in what is termed as matriculation. The big question begging for an
By Jonathan Ugbal Three suspects have been arrested in connection to the case of a lady beaten and burnt to death in Obudu on Sunday May 3, 2015 CrossRiverWatch gathered from reliable sources. “The suspects (names withheld) have been transferred to the state Criminal Investigation Department CID in Calabar for further investigations and subsequent prosecution”
By CrossRiverWatch admin All Progressives Congress, APC in Cross River state has condemned what it called ‘’the high scale violence’’ perpetrated by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP against its members during Saturday’s Governorship and House of Assembly elections in the state. This is as the South South Zonal Secretariat of the party has alleged compromise