By Ovatomi Ibingha Cross River State Command of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria recently arrested a man suspected to be a child trafficker in Abana, Bakassi Local Government Area of Cross River State just as two victims were rescued. The State Commander, Vigilante Group of Nigeria, Dr. Mercy Effiom made this known in her Calabar
By Our Correspondent Cross River State governor, Senator Liyel Imoke, has charged Cross Riverians and other Nigerians resident in the state to turn out en mass to exercise their civic responsibility in the Presidential and National Assembly election scheduled for Saturday, March 28. Governor Imoke who made the charge in a statement by his Chief
By CrossRiverWatch admin The Association of Cross River Online Journalists, ACROJ has admonished Cross Riverians to see today’s election as an opportunity to elect responsible and proactive leaders who have the capacity to reawaken the greatness of our country and to shun all forms of violence before, during and after the election. In a statement
By Our Correspondent The Cross River State Government has dismissed a newspaper report which puts the state’s total debt profile at N400 Billion as fiction. The government also described the report which claims the state is the most indebted in the country as misleading and false. A statement issued in Calabar on Monday and signed
By Aplefe Ojong The Federal High Court 6 sitting in Maitama, Abuja and presided over by Justice Adetokunbo Ademola (Jr.) on Friday March 20, 2015 declined jurisdiction in a case filed by Joe Agi (SAN) against the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the PDP gubernatorial candidate in the April
By CrossRiverWatch admin Generational Voices (GenVoices) is partnering with British Council and Enough is Enough (EiE) to deliver a Citizens’ Debate on the upcoming elections in Calabar, the Cross River State capital. This will be facilitated through GenVoices’ conversational platform called Gentalks. This builds on the extensive work that GenVoices and its partners have done
By CrossRiverWatch admin The Special Adviser on Media and Publicity and Chief Press Secretary to the Cross River State Governor, Mr. Christian Ita, has reacted quickly to allegations by the opposition Labor party that the PDP led government in Cross River State should be held responsible for the upsurge of violence in the state, particularly
By CrossRiverWatch admin The Labor Party House of Representatives Candidate for Bakassi/Akpabuyo/Calabar South Federal Constituency in Cross River State, Hon. Dominic Aqua Edem, has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen. Hon. Aqua who is also a former Commissioner representing Cross River State in the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC was said to have been kidnapped at