By CrossRiverWatch Admin Determined to check any outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic at the internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in Cross River State, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is setting up an isolation centre at the Nigeria-Cameroun border. The centre, according to the Director General of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA),
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Fire incident has destroyed economic crops worth millions of naira in Cross River communities of Agba, Bansan, and Obubra in Boki Local Government Areas of the State. The mysterious fire incident, destroyed economic crops such as cocoa, plantain, banana, oil palm trees, bush mango and avocado peer, in an area span of
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), has donated relief materials worth millions of Naira to victims of communal crisis in Abi local government area of the state. The agency donated the materials following the communal conflict that erupted between Usumutong, Ediba and Afafanyi communities in Abi local government area on January 2,
By David Nsa The Cross River State, State Emergency Management Agency (CRS-SEMA), in collaboration with Peculiar Foundation is set to create jobs for three hundred refugees and host community members in the State. The SEMA Acting Director General Mr. Princewill Ayim stated this in an exclusive interview with CrossRiverWatch in his Calabar office where he stressed
By Ilam Patricia The Acting Director General of Cross River State Emergency Management Agency (CRS-SEMA) Mr. Princewill Ayim has urged all and sundry not to discriminate against refugees. He gave the charge today in commemoration of the 2019 World Refugee day which was marked in Calabar, the State capital. The World Refugee Day 2019 which
By Emmanuel Unah Relief materials worth millions of naira have been razed down in the Cross River State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) store house following a fire outbreak on Saturday evening. The fire which started at about 7pm razed several bags of rice, gallons of vegetable, cartons of biscuits and noodles kept in the warehouse
By Jonathan Ugbal Hundreds of people have been rendered homeless in Bayasung community of Bansang East of Obanliku local government area following a windstorm. The windstorm which occurred between Thursday night and Friday morning last week left about 52 houses destroyed. A resident, Mr. Julius Basake told CrossRiverWatch that the incident has left over 250
By Jonathan Ugbal Residents around 8 miles axis of Calabar Municipal local government area are currently at risk of an explosion and fire outbreak following the fall of a truck carrying Kerosene at the Scanobo section of the Calabar-Odukpani federal highway. The truck fell on its side on Saturday after the load it carried became