By Jeremiah Archibong The Cross River State Police Commissioner has called on Cross Riverians to fund the Police when the need arises owing to the fact that they are poorly funded. The Commissioner who was speaking through Supol Beatrice Odey made the passionate appeal while fielding questions from victims of child theft and participants at
The recent law prescribing death penalty for perpetrators of kidnapping in Cross River emerged as a dominant, mainstream thriller that shocked the conscience of society. While I condemn kidnapping in its entirety, I would argue however that the new law is not human rights compliant especially when mirrored against the nature of crime and its
By Archibong Jeremiah, House Of Assembly Correspondent The Cross River State House of Assembly, CRSHA has been accused of back stabbing for enacting the Cross River State Water Front Law without due consultation with the landlords through the appropriate quarters. The accusation was made by leaders of the water front communities yesterday morning in a
By Ubong Edet It is wonderful that after the first floor of a building is set, that very structure takes another architectural design. This is just the case with UNICAL Alumni uncompleted building, a project started about five years ago. The said building was to serve as the secretariat of the Alumni of University of
By CrossRiverWatch admin The panel set up by the Vice Chancellor, University of Calabar to investigate allegations of rape against the Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Calabar, Professor Cyril Ndifon, has completed its citizen and suspended the Professor from the services of the institution. Professor Ndifon was accused of sexually assaulting a 20-year old
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