By Kelvin Ololo Cross River-born journalist, documentary filmmaker and entrepreneur, Obaji Akpet, has emerged as the new Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) Alumni Hub Lead for Lagos after securing the highest number of votes in the 2026 Hub Lead elections. Akpet, a 2019 TEF Alumni, was formally congratulated by the Foundation’s Alumni Engagement Team, which described
By CrossRiverWatch Admin A video obtained by CrossRiverWatch shows that the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA is currently closed temporarily as an Aero Cally Boeing 737 300 skid off the taxiway with its nose gear buried in soft ground. Aero Cally is the contraption coined to explain the deal between the Cross River State Government,
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Men of the Nigeria Police Force have finally arrested CrossRiverWatch publisher, Citizen Agba Jalingo, after holding his wife, and daughter hostage for over an hour at his Ogudu residence in Lagos State. Mr. Jalingo had raised the alarm at about 4:00PM and refused to step out since the Policemen did not identify
By Deji Lambo, Punch Newspaper Listen To The Report A yet-to-be-identified driver has delivered guns to a man, Aji Augustine, who was expecting to take delivery of foodstuffs sent by his mother to him in Lagos State. The PUNCH gathered that Augustine’s mother, who lives in Cross River State, sent the food items to her
By Kunle Daramola, The Cable Listen To The Report The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) says President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the reopening of four more land borders. The borders are Idiroko in Ogun, Jibiya in Katsina, Kamba in Kebbi and Ikom in Cross River. In August 2019, Nigeria closed its land borders over the proliferation
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Nigerian airline, Aero contractors is flying a triangular route between Lagos, Kano and Sokoto airports with an aircraft leased by the Cross River State government. This follows the temporal suspension of operations by the airline on the Lagos – Calabar and Abuja – Calabar route. The airline restricted daily flights to Mondays,
By Omolola Afolabi, HumAngle Gberefu is a coastal community of mostly farmers and fishers in Badagry, a border town in Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria. It was from here that thousands of Nigerians were kept and sold during the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. The sites and relics of that history are still there to remind visitors of the
The issue many are not putting in proper perspective on this VAT ruling by Port Harcourt Federal High Court is that the advantage Lagos, Rivers and FCT have over other states per VAT is the fact that Nigeria’s formal economy is concentrated in these places while others run an informal economy, largely. It is not