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
By Archibong Jeremiah Sen. Victor Ndoma-Egba, SAN has described the ongoing judicial crisis in Cross River State as “needles and useless.” He bard his mind when speaking at the valedictory Court session presided by Justice E. Ayade at the State High Court, Calabar in honour of late Barrister Oriri Ekom Oriri. Watch video on CrossRiverWatch
By Jonathan Ugbal The new legal year for the Cross River judiciary began on Monday without the usual pomp and pageantry. This is because there is a vacancy in the administrative court where the Chief Judge sits. The State has been without a Chief Judge for 20 days now due to differences between the Governor,
By David Peter, Agency Reports Cross River Deputy Governor, Professor Ivara Esu and the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Eteng Jones (PDP Yakurr) were among high profile attendees as the immediate past acting Chief Judge, Justice Maurice Eneji remarried on Saturday. This is despite the fact the judiciary has gone 18 days without