By Our Correspondent Governor of Cross River state, Senator Ben Ayade has said that the plight of the common people who have been remanded in prison custody for over eight months without trial and the fate of the young lawyers in Cross River whose practice has been checkmated for more than eight months due to
By Our Correspondent The Cross River State House of Assembly is considering a bill for a law to establish an anti-graft agency in the state. Speaker of the Cross River State House of Assembly Hon. John Gaul Lebo stated this Thursday when he received Labor Leaders, Civil Society Organizations and Trade Unionists who had stormed
By Jeremiah Archibong Foundation for Partnership Initiative in the Niger Delta, PIND has launched an SMS early warning system in the region and trained 30 members of Partners For Peace, P4P to man the system in Cross River State. According to the Coordinator of Peace-Building Unit of PIND, Nkasi Wodu the SMS line is to
By Aplefe Ojong Peter Ukorebi, a 2013 graduate of Pereka Secondary Commercial School, Calabar, was born on March 25, 1993 in Calabar, Cross River State. Right from his days in the secondary school, Peter had shown sufficient interest in the sciences and things that can be done practically. In and outside the school, Peter has
By Jeremiah Archibong Engineer Moses Akpoba, a staff at ExxonMobil, Eket Akwa Ibom State has built a borehole for his community; Bateba, Etonko, Etoi streets Calabar and its environs. While unveiling the bore hole recently, he revealed that it is because of frequent water scarcity in his area and seeing how people around suffer to
By Aplefe Ojong The decision of the Governor of Cross River State, Senator Ben Ayade to allocate 30 appointments to members of the opposition parties in the state has attracted mixed reactions from a cross section of the indigenes of the state and other political parties. While the major opposition party, the All Progressives Congress,
By CrossRiverWatch admin Cross River State Democracy Club and Youth Parliament in seeking to achieve its set objectives of deepening democracy and promoting democratic culture and values among youths in Cross River State is poised to establish a network of clubs in the 18 Local Government Areas of the state. These clubs will be formed
By Our Correspondent Obudu born Professor of Modern Languages and Translation, Professor Zana Itiunbe Akpagu yesterday won majority votes to defeat seven other contestants in the battle to succeed Professor James Epoke as Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar. Professor Epoke began his tenure as the Vice Chancellor of Unical on 1st December, and