By CrossRiverWatch Admin Kidnappers may have developed a new strategy to abduct victims which now include gaining access to buildings via the roof of houses. This was the case at 8 miles in Calabar on Wednesday morning when kidnappers broke into the residence of one Mr. Godwin Samuel and whisked him away. Images obtained by
By Aishat Babatunde, HumAngle Ten-year-old Amina leans on a sunken wood frame that forms a fence for a charcoal shop. She has come to buy charcoal with two other girls from a street tucked between ‘1,000 units’ residential area and Pegi in Kuje Area Council in Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja. Frustration furrows the lines of her
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Policemen attached to Operation Akpakwu, a joint task force of the Cross River State government have rescued a kidnapped victim hours after her abduction in Calabar, the State capital. “Today, 20th September 2021, at about 11:00AM, one Mrs Ruth Jerome of No 3B Ikot Nkebre, in Calabar was kidnapped from her resident
By Ushang Ewa Obol Ubi Itam Ettah, a two term Chairman of Yakurr Local Government Area of central Cross River has been kidnapped. Ettah, an oil baron also known as Bomboi, who served as council chairman from 2007 to 2013 was abducted yesterday at his fueling station, Wenwon Muka in Ugep a few days to
By Jonathan Ugbal Hours after Cross River Governor, Benedict Ayade announced the easing of the curfew in the State to last between midnight and 6:00AM, gunmen kidnapped a business man in Calabar. Vouda David Egwu, a father of three and petty business man was abducted in front of his residence at about 9:00PM on Monday.
By Jonathan Ugbal Gunmen dressed like men of the Nigerian Police Force earlier on Tuesday stormed the cocoa farm at the Cross River Broadcasting Corporation in Calabar, abducting Mr. Oscar Ofuka, the Special Adviser on Cocoa Development to Governor Ben Ayade. Mr. Ofuka was preparing grounds waiting for the Deputy Governor, Professor Ivara Esu who
By Ike Uchechukwu, Vanguard Newspaper The Commissioner of Police in Cross River State, CP Sikiru Akande on Friday paraded 11 suspects apprehended by Operation Restore Peace for sundry crimes including Kidnapping, armed robbery, cultism, unlawful possession of firearms. The commissioner disclosed that the police in the State were back with full force to deal ruthlessly
By Jonathan Ugbal It has been 31 days since Comrade Ben Ukpepi, the Chairman of the Nigerian Labor Congress in Cross River State was kidnapped in front of his residence at the CROSPIL estate in Akpabuyo Local Government Area. It is the second time Mr. Ukpepi would suffer in the hands of kidnappers, yet, there