by crossriverwatch admin Senate leader, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba has said that the proposed amnesty for members of the Boko Haram sect, which necessitated the setting up of a dialogue committee by the federal government, should be given a chance. The Senate Leader, representing Cross River Central Senatorial District in the Red Chamber made the remark
by crossriverwatch admin The Paramount Ruler of Bakassi, Etiyin Etim Okon Edet has expressed hope that the Presidential Committee on the Resettlement of Bakassi refugees headed by the Vice President, Architect Namadi Sambo, will be the last of such and will succeed in putting smiles back to the faces of his people. Speaking when the
by crossriverwatch admin Dr. Iyam Ugot has since 2000 been in government in Cross River State. He started as the Commissioner for Health and later, Special Adviser on Roll Back Malaria under Mr. Donald Duke. In 2010, Senator Liyel Imoke, occasioned by his commendable performance appointed him the Special Adviser on Community Health. In this
by crossriverwatch admin The Executive Chairman of Bakassi Local Government, Dr. Ekpo Ekpo Bassey has said that former Special Adviser to ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo on National Assembly Matters, Senator Florence Ita-Giwa deceived the nation when she allegedly championed the report that 1800 Nigerians were evicted from their former settlement, manhandled and 11 others killed by
by crossriverwatch admin Bakassi indigenes ejected from their Efut Obot Ikot village by Cameroonian authorities in March and now sheltering in St. Mark Primary School, Ikot Eyo in Akpabuyo Local Government area are now in a standoff with the Bakassi local government officials who want them to relocate to Ekpri Ikang in Bakassi. To eject
by crossriverwatch admin An Arik aircraft with registration number 5N-MJE developed fault at take off at the Margaret Ekpo International Airport Calabar on Saturday afternoon . The flight which was scheduled for takeoff to Abuja at 11 am eventually made effort to take off at about 2 pm but the aircraft could not take off
by crossriverwatch admin The police at the Federal Housing Calabar, the Cross River State capital are investigating the veracity of a report by a house wife, Mrs Ifeyinwa Uquak, alleging that her husband, Pastor Edward Uquak , serially defiled their six year old adopted daughter, Wondaful Faith Uquak. The 17 year old childless marriage between
by crossriverwatch admin It was a gory spectacle on Friday evening at Ehom Village, Akamkpa along the Calabar –Ikom highway when a trailer traveling to Calabar crushed five members of the same family, three females and two males while on their way to Ikom in the central district of the state. The empty trailer, an