By Soonest Nathaniel, Channels TV Justices Ijeoma Ojukwu and Rosemary Oghoghorie of the Federal High Court sitting in Calabar, Cross Rivers State, have convicted and sentenced six internet fraudsters to various terms of imprisonment. The convicts: Ojiako David Enyinna, Heziekiah Ezekiel Eno, Onyedika Ugochukwu Enemchukwu, Adinkwu Destiny Chukwudifu, God’s Favour Bassey Essi and Ebenezer Emmanuel
By Yusuf Alli and Onyedi Ojiabor, The Nation Newspaper Contractors of the 1, 250 terminated Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) projects have refunded cash, Niger Delta Affairs Minister Umana Okon Umana has said. He said the recoveries, made by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) due to non-performance, were made following the forensic audit
By Ogar Monday In Bogobiri the heart of Calabar, the Cross River State capital, three health workers sit around a table covered with Cross River State’s blue and white cotton material and a heap of books spread across the length of the table. This is supposed to be one of the primary health care facilities
By David Hundeyin, West Africa Weekly There is a problem with Nigerian banking, and it’s worse than you think. Much worse. In May 2022, shortly after my story about Chinese loan sharks in West Africa went up, a number of new tips and leads started trickling in. It looked at first, as though a follow-up story would emerge,
The Conversation is Series of discussions between CrossRiverWatch investigators and those exempted from paying tax in Cross River State. The Conversation was produced by CrossRiverWatch in partnership with Civic Media Lab through its Grassroots News Project. Watch:
By Jonathan Ugbal A Federal High Court sitting in Calabar and presided over by Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu has discharged the former bursar of t he University of Calabar, Peter Agi over alleged acts of corruption. Agi, was discharged on Thursday after the prosecution filed a letter from the University of Calabar which said they were
By Archibong Jeremiah, Sylvia Akpan and Theresa Mba Cross River State Government has not been able to successfully implement its Law No. 13, 2015 – Tax Exemption (of Low Income Earners) Law, which was conceived to give ministration to “the poor,” according to Governor Ben Ayade. With his (Ayade) dramatic cries (on camera) for “the
By Gabriel Ogunjobi, Foundation for Investigative Journalism Medical interns at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH) in Cross River State have been suspended since August 2 for asking the hospital to settle its 10-month salary indebtedness to them, FIJ can report. According to a circular signed by Ededet Eyoma, UCTH’s Director of Administration, the