By CrossRiverWatch Admin Women from Okuni Community in Ikom Local Government Area of Cross River state on Monday, took to the streets to demand justice for a woman who was gang-raped in the presence of her husband. Numbering over one thousand, the women, dressed in black, commenced their peaceful march at the police station in
By Violet Isek Women in Obubra local government area of central Cross River State are currently protesting what they term as neglect following the continuous invasion of their villages especially in Osopong communities by neighboring Izzi local government area of Ebonyi State. The women who stormed the local government secretariat in their numbers have chased
By Archibong Jeremiah CrossRiverWatch can confirm that Dr. Emem Moses Udoh Dr. Emem, a Senior Registrar in the Paediatrics unit, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH) kidnapped on Monday 8th of January, 2018 has been rescued from her abductors on Thursday and reunited with her family. According to information available to our newsroom from the
By Jonathan Ugbal Residents of Bogobiri in Ward 1 of Calabar South local government area are currently protesting a two months long power outage in their area. They are also complaining about the electrocution of three residents within a period of about 90 days. “Three people have died so far and we don’t have light
By Jonathan Ugbal The Management of the Cross River University of Technology has announced the resumption of academic activities barely 24 hours after a protest by some students had led to the shutdown of the institution, CrossRiverWatch authoritatively reports. Students had on Monday protested management’s decision to prevent those owing more than a semester school
By Ushang Ewa No fewer than 600 electricity consumers from Efut Musaha Clan in Calabar South, Thursday stormed the Customer Care Centre of the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHEDC) protesting alleged poor services rendered by the company. The Nation reports that the protesters who carried different placards with inscriptions such as “We pay huge
By Jonathan Ugbal and Ikwen Atuaka The planned protest by youths in Obudu over recent kidnappings planned for Friday morning may have been botched due to political pressure on the youth President, Benedict Agba who ‘chickened out’ CrossRiverWatch authoritatively reports. But Benedict says his intention was to send a warning and a 7 day ultimatum
By Ikwen Atuaka Youths in Obudu under the aegis of the National Youth Council will protest Friday (tomorrow) over the increase in the number of abductions. The protest is to draw the attention of the relevant authorities to the issue following the kidnap of 3 people in less than a month. “We have informed all