By Patrick Obia The Speaker of Cross River State House of Assembly Honorable Elvert Ayambem, has been Impeached by two-third majority (17 members) of the House. In an impeachment notice obtained by CrossRiverWatch, the Speaker is removed on four grounds, bothering on financial misconduct, incompetence and wrong conduct of preliminary proceedings; non-compliance with the Cross
By CrossRiverWatch Admin. Information reaching our newsroom has it that the Vice Chancellor of the University of Cross River State (UNICROSS), Professor Augustine Oko Angba, has been suspended. The embattled Prof. Angba is suspended by the varsity Governing Council on Monday, May 6th, 2024, during the school’s Governing Council meeting held at the main campus,
By Godwin Otang The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), has charged the suspended Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Calabar (UNICAL) Professor Cyril Ndifon to Court on a 4-count charge. In the charge sheet number: FHC/ABJ/CR/511/2023, the ICPC’s charge against the Professor of Law is bordering on sexual harassment,
By Patrick Obia The management of University of Calabar (UNICAL) has lamented what it described as “obnoxious and abhorrable” acts of sorting, extortions and sexual harassments going on in the institution by lecturers. Sorting refers to payments for grades. And, following widespread claims that students are relying on sorting to pass while lecturers extort monies
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The travails of the Cross River state Attorney General, Mr. Joe Oshie Abang, may not be coming to an end soon as a scheduled disciplinary hearing by the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee, LPDC over allegations of professional misconduct against the AG has been rescheduled from the initial Thursday 27th October, 2016 to
by crossriverwatch admin Three civil servants have been sacked while nine officers have been compulsorily retired and three demoted for acts of gross misconduct in Cross River State civil service this year. Mr. Brian Ekpong, the Chairman of the Cross River State Civil Service Commission who stated this in Calabar while speaking to newsmen added