By Our Reporters The member who represented Calabar South, Bakassi, and Akpabuyo in the House of Representatives and seeking re-election under the PDP in the ongoing general election, Hon. Essien Ayi was arrested by the Police earlier today. The Cross River State Command Public Relations Officer, Irene Ugbo confirmed the arrest to our newsroom. She
By Our Reporters As Nigerians get ready to cast their votes in today’s presidential and national assembly elections, our reporters across the 18 LGAs observe that materials and personnel are yet to arrive at many polling units. At INEC headquarters in Calabar, there is a heavy security display – armed army men of the Nigerian
By Adebayo Aare, MAP News The 20,973 personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, who participated in the Osun and Ekiti election received their election assignment allowance on Friday, February 18th 2023. This payment is coming about seven months after the elections had been held. NSCDC deployed 11,226 personnel to provide security
By Ogar Monday The Cross River State chapter of the Inter-party Advisory Council, IPAC, and the State Government are at loggerheads over the validity or not of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS sent to the State. IPAC alleged that the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, in the State is working towards swaying the elections towards
By James Emejo, ThisDay Newspaper The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, Thursday launched the Nigerian National Domestic Card scheme that will among other things, avail Nigerians the sovereignty of their data, lower costs of transactions, and address challenges in foreign exchange usage. Emefiele said at a time when foreign
By Ogar Monday The palace of the Obong of Calabar has debunked the news making rounds that His Eminence, Edidem Ekpo Okon Abasi Otu V, was dethroned by the Supreme court. The place made this known in a press statement made available to CrossRiverWatch and signed by HRH Etubom Bassey Duke, Chairman of Etuboms’ Traditional
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Cross River State Governor, Sen. Ben Ayade Sunday in Calabar attended the 2023 Armed Forces Remembrance Day celebration. At the colorful ceremony held at the Millennium Park Cenotaph in the Cross River state capital, the governor called on governments at all levels to reflect on the sacrifices ex-servicemen have made for the
By Godwin Otang, Nigerian Tribune Cross River State may be heading towards climate crisis as the pristine rainforest is fast vanishing, Nigerian Tribune reports. The Cross River rainforest, according to experts, is the most relevant, expansive, and sophisticated forest cover owned by Nigeria and West Africa. However, available statistics show that 8,686 square kilometers gradually