By Jonathan Ugbal More than 48 hours after he was sworn in as acting Chief Judge of the High Court of Cross River State, Justice Eyo Effiom Ita is yet to resume at his office. This is due to an ongoing protest by lawyers and concerned residents who are demanding that a substantive Chief Judge
By Jonathan Ugbal Mr. Eyo Ekpo, a former Attorney General and Justice Commissioner in Cross River has called on Judges of the State High Court to decline offers from the Governor to be acting Chief Judge in a bid to end the leadership crisis in the State’s judiciary. The State has been without a substantive
By Ushang Ewa Government House sources have disclosed to CrossRiverWatch that Governor Ben Ayade hastily swore-in Justice Eyo Effiom Ita to prevent residents and legal practitioners from protesting. The State had been without a Chief Judge for 46 days and following an announcement that residents and legal practitioners will protest, Mr. Ayade had announced that
By Jonathan Ugbal Lawyers and residents in Calabar booed the Cross River Deputy Governor, Professor Ivara Esu when he tried to address them over the issues bedeviling the State’s judiciary. The State has been without a Chief Judge for 46 days and legal practitioners as well as residents took the streets on Monday to protest
By Jonathan Ugbal Residents and lawyers in Cross River State are currently protesting against the vacancy in the position of the Chief Judge of the High Court of the State. Numbering over 50, they have blocked the entrance of the judiciary headquarters stopping those who are trying to gain entry. The crisis rocking the judiciary
By Archibong Jeremiah Ahead of tomorrow’s protest against bad governance, police brutality, poor state of roads, crippling state of the judicial and a host of others, Ben Ayade, Governor of Cross River State has shivered. The Governor who recently was referred to as “poto poto governor” by some indegenes of the State through a release
The Judiciary in Cross River State has been rendered moribund, unnavigable and demented by the brazen rascality of executive and legislative principalities. The Judiciary is the hope of the common man, and an arm of Government well engraved and enshrined in our grundnorm. The executive cum legislative influenced & orchestrated vacancy or vacuum in the
By Bassey Inyang, This Day Newspaper Former Leader of the Senate, Victor Ndoma-Egba (SAN), has observed that the National Judicial Council (NJC) will not concede to the demands of the Cross River State Governor, Sen. Ben Ayade, to appoint a junior above his seniors as Chief Judge of the State. Ndoma-Egba’s observation followed the absence