By CrossRiverWatch admin The city of Calabar, the Cross River State capital, has in recent times witnessed increased incidences of robbery and other vices with the security agencies barely able to respond effectively. Reports gathered by CrossRiverWatch indicate that within last week (19th – 25th June, 2016) Target road in Calabar South witnessed straight four
By Jonathan Ugbal; Government House Correspondent Following the recent kidnapping of 3 foreigners working with Macmahon, a contracting firm working for Lafarge PLC in Cross River State, the deputy governor, Professor Ivara Esu Thursday in Calabar, met with the State Security Adviser (SSA), Jude Ngaji and heads of security agencies in the state, CrossRiverWatch can
By CrossRiverWatch admin Following speculations on social media that the State Government has declared curfew in Calabar South following the increasing rate of gang war, the Cross River State Government and the Police have rebuffed the rumors. Speaking to our reporter, Jude Ngaji, Cross River State Security Adviser said the Government never declared any state
By CrossRiverWatch admin Cross River State Security Adviser SSA, Mr. Jude Ngaji has decried lack of man power, capacity, finance among others as some of the challenges militating against the effective tackling of crime and other vices in the state. Mr. Jude made this disclosure, Wednesday in Calabar to members of Partners for Peace (P4P)
By CrossRiverWatch admin Two men serving with the mobile police unit in Calabar have been arrested over the death of their colleague who was hacked to death last month by miscreants allegedly hired by a rival community in a land tussle. CrossRiverWatch had reported that the mobile policeman was killed by thugs while he and
By CrossRiverWatch Admin You are aware that we have great ideas in key signature projects. The intention is that those projects will create a new economy that can sustain our people and give us independence. All of those things in our plan, political and economical, they would amount to nothing if we don’t have the
By Utang Bassey The level of snatching of valuables by touts, gangsters, street urchins and the dreaded skolombo boys in some areas of Calabar south axis of Cross River’s capital city continues to rise with students of the Cross River University of Technology, CRUTECH, fast becoming easy targets. Also, the number of break-ins while people
Inyali Peter, Calabar Barely three days after some Cross Riverians appealed to the State Governor, Senator Ben Ayade to intervene in the conflict between Yakurr and Obubra communities, another communal war involving three villages in Ogoja Local Government Area of the state has birthed. Okpagada and Mbagede communities are currently in serious communal war with