By CrossRiverWatch Admin Project Alert on Violence Against Women, an NGO based in Lagos has launched today on social media, a documentary on community services available for survivors of Sexual and Gender based Violence, SGBV. The documentary tells the stories of survivors and the help they got from the SGBV Community Surveillance Teams the NGO
By Archibong Jeremiah No Home Was Allocated. Information from CrossRiverWatch reporters who went to the Bakassi IDP estate which was supposed to be allocated to beneficiaries today by Governor Ben Ayade (Cross River State) say the event did not take place as planned. A statement yesterday from the State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mr.
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Determined to check any outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic at the internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in Cross River State, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is setting up an isolation centre at the Nigeria-Cameroun border. The centre, according to the Director General of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA),
By Efa Sunday A young Cross Riverian, identified as Mr. Olyma Bill Ogbeche has accused the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) of politicking with the disbursement of relief materials to displaced persons across the country and Cross River State in particular. Ogbeche made this accusation via his twitter handle @Olymzo, while commenting on a statement of
By CrossRiverWatch Admin A lawmaker in the Cross River House of Assembly, Dr. Ekpo Ekpo-Bassey, has called on the Federal Government to establish the Bakassi Rehabilitation Commission in a bid to properly alleviate the plight of the Bakassi returnees. Ekpo-Bassey, who represents Bakassi State Constituency, told The Nation Newspaper in Calabar on Sunday that the
By David Nsa and Margaret John Some Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) of Bakassi Local Government Area have appealed to the Cross River State Government to revisit the judgment which led to the ceding of the Peninsula to Cameroon, the 76 oil wells reallocated to Akwa Ibom State as well as disenfranchisement by INEC. They made
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Theatre Command Special Court Martial sitting in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, has dismissed a soldier from service for defiling a 14 years old Internally Displaced Person (IDP) female. Major General Yakubu Auta, President of the Court, gave the name of the accused officer as Flight Lieutenant Martins Owerrem. The charges
By Kebeh Eteng: Agency Report Cross River acting governor, Professor Ivara Esu has assured the people of Ukelle in Yala local government area of adequate protection from external and internal aggression. Mr. Esu stated this at southern Ukelle when he visited the internally displaced persons (IDPs) of Izzi in Ebonyi and southern Ukelle in Cross