By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Centre (RULAAC) has called on the Police to immediately release Agba Jalingo, publisher of CrossRiverWatch. According to the NGO, “From 22 to 30 August, it is 8 days since operatives allegedly of Intelligence Response Team (IRT) seized Mr. Agba Jalingo, Editor in Chief and Publisher
By Patrick Obia The Chairman, Association of Cross River Online Journalists (ACROJ) Comrade Darlington Edem, has alleged that there are plans by the Government of Cross River State to gage the media in the State, following the recent arrest and detention of four Journalists in Calabar. Mr. Darlington stated this while speaking as a guest
By Our Reporter The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) have condemned the arrest and detention of a Nigerian journalist, Agba Jalingo for allegedly criticising the Cross River State Government. Jalingo, Editor-in-Chief/Publisher of CrossRiverWatch, was said to have been whisked away from Lagos by men of the Nigeria Police Force on Thursday and has not been
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Jalingo was arrested on Thursday in Lagos and taken to Calabar, capital of Cross River State, by officers of the Nigeria Police allegedly on the request of the governor. Wife of the publisher of CrossRiverWatch, Agba Jalingo, Violet, has said that the state governor, Ben Ayade, was persecuting her husband for exposing
By Our Reporter International Press Center (IPC) has denounced the growing crackdown on freedom of expression following the continuing molestation of journalists and the Media by security agencies. In a press release by the Association of Cross River Online Journalists – ACROJ dated August 22, 2019 Mr. Agba Jalingo, Editor-in-Chief/Publisher of CrossRiverWatch was criminally whisked
The unlawful arrest and persecution of Agba Jalingo, Editor-in-Chief/Publisher of CrossRiverWatch for trying to hold the Cross River State Government accountable, is one that must be condemned by all well meaning citizens, we must all rise now to stand against it. In no democracy anywhere in the world is taking one’s Government to task a
My constant assertion that Cross River State Governor, Senator Ben Ayade is a threat to free speech and a free press in Cross River State has been challenged by some of his aides who also want me to proof my allegation with facts. The thing about this administration is that, in the same manner they