By Patrick Obia and Blessing Isong Listen To The Report Customers of the Calabar Microfinance Bank are complaining of their inability to access their funds domiciled in the bank. The bank is reportedly facing some unknown crisis that makes it ration out cash available, with some unable to access cash for weeks. Also, customers are
By Patrick Obia Listen To The Report The Cross River State Civil Service headquarters in Calabar is currently under lock and key as 1800 civil servants employed four years ago are protesting over unpaid salaries. The protesters in their numbers barricaded the entrances of the secretariat and chanted solidarity songs with leaves saying they are
By Mary Bassey Listen To The Report Mr. Christian Chinedu Andrew has narrated how he was abducted and duped by someone he tried to help, detained, and extorted by the Police. He narrated his ordeal through a post on his Facebook wall. According to him, “I wouldn’t have been alive today if not for God,
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Listen To The Report Information reaching our newsroom has it that some criminals who allegedly broke into an office in the Obudu Local Government Council have been arrested. According to sources, the alleged criminals carted away with 2.6 million naira. The Police Public Relations department is yet to confirm the arrest.
By Odue Gloria Our newsroom has just confirmed that it was a false alarm that there was an attempt to kidnap the resident (name yet to be confirmed) in satellite town, Calabar Municipality in Cross River State. The incident supposedly occurred occurred penultimate Wednesday at about 10:30 pm. Contrary to an earlier report that the kidnappers
By Jonathan Ugbal Rights lawyer and activist, Barr. James Ibor says the trend of arresting, detaining and imprisonment of sureties by Judges, Magistrates and law enforcement agents is worrisome as the actual process is not being followed. Ibor, who is the secretary of the justice sector reform commission in Cross River State, took to Facebook
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The just-concluded by-election in Ogoja/Yala Federal Constituency and Akpabuyo State Constituency recorded irregularities, CrossRiverWatch can authoritatively report. Our newsroom observed that vote-buying was rampant, security agents were compromised, civilians were brutalized and ballot papers were snatched at gunpoint. Watch “#CRSDecides2022 Diary Of Irregularities” below where sporadic shooting, ballot box snatching, vote-buying, and
By Ushang Ewa The chairman of the Cross River council of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, Victor Udu has sued for professionalism by personnel of the Nigerian Army and Nigerian Police Force in the February 26th 2022 legislative by-elections in the State. Two legislative seats – Ogoja/Yala federal constituency and Akpabuyo State constituency are up