By CrossRiverWatch Admin Police Anti-cultism and Kidnapping Squad (ACKS) in Calabar intercepts and arrest 3 kidnappers. The hoodlums had kidnapped a man at Okoro Agbor street and were trailed and intercepted along IBB way where the victim was rescued and the trio arrested. They are currently at the anti-kidnapping unit in Calabar. See pictures below.
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Some top politicians in Cross River State have been on rounds of frantic efforts trying to lobby the Nigeria Police Force, Cross River State Command to release one of the arrested gangerster and alleged kidnapper, Cyril Bassey, who was earlier declared wanted by the State Government alongside 34 others for involvement in
By Jonathan Ugbal The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu has redeployed the Commissioner of Police in Cross River state, Mr. Uche Anozie after 99 days. Mr. Anozie, a statement by Force Public Relations Officer, DCP Frank Mba said, has been posted to the Force Criminal Investigation Department’s Annex in Lagos, as head. The statement
By Jonathan Ugbal Mr. Uche Anozie, the Commissioner of Police in Cross River state has said that security agencies are not really interested in prosecution of suspected criminals but the prevention of crime. The police chief made this known on Wednesday in Calabar while sharing his thoughts on “The Reports on Insecurity in the South-South
By Afeez Hanafi, Punch Newspaper Four members of a robbery gang operating as cab drivers in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, have been arrested by the Police for dispossessing unsuspecting passengers of valuables. The suspects, Didi Jolly, Chisom Unegbu, Michael Matthew, and George Ala, were rounded up recently by operatives of Inspector-General of Police, Intelligence Response Team
By CrossRiverWatch Admin No fewer than four are feared dead in a renewed crisis between Bishiri communities in Obanliku local government area of Cross River State and Mbakunu community of Kwande local government area of Benue state. The renewed crisis began on Friday a native of Bishiri told CrossRiverWatch. “We own that land. We allowed
By Jonathan Ugbal Martin Obono, a lawyer and rights activist in Nigeria who was arrested on Friday by the Police in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city after he tweeted about the force’s handling of a rape case has been released. Obono was released after a few hours in detention at the Zone 7 command of the
By Jonathan Ugbal Martin Mbasekei Obono, a lawyer and rights activist is currently in Police custody for calling out the Nigerian Police Force over it’s handling of his client. PREMIUMTIMES reports that Mr. Obono was arrested and taken to the Wuse Zone 3 police station in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory. He is said to