By Able Winnard The Cross River State Government has constituted a task force to scrutinize health insurance utilization across public health facilities in the State. The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Henry Egbe Ayuk while constituting the task force in Calabar, stated that the misappropriation of capitation from both federal and state health insurance gateways had
By Sylvia Akpan, Government House Correspondent The Executive Governor of Cross River State, Sen. Bassey Edet Otu has lifted the ban on logging and dissolved the anti-deforestation taskforce. This was made known in a press release signed by Prof. Anthony Owan Enoh, Secretary to the State Government, dated 10th August, 2023 with reference number SSG/GSA/102/VOL.VI/226.
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Ijiraga Youths in Yala LGA of Cross River State, yesterday chased out former Chairman of Anti-Deforestation Task Force, Emmanuel Asegem AKA Ajanaku and his boys out of the community. The checkpoint where they usually extort transporters has been taken over by the angry youths of the Ijiraga community. In an amateur video
By Jonathan Ugbal Youths and concerned indigenes of Ijiraga community in Ukelle, Yala Local Government Area this morning intercepted and stopped a convoy of about 17 trucks conveying illegally logged woods from forests in Cross River State and heading towards Abakaliki, Ebonyi State. A source abreast of the matter told this reporter that after the
By Doosuur Iwambe, Daily Times, Abuja An online journalist, Emma Bricks Oko has been sentenced by a Mobile Court which sat in Utako to 6 hours community service with a fine of 5, 000 Naira only for doing his job. The Magistrate, Mabel Bello who denied the journalist his right to fair hearing went ahead
By CrossRiverWatch Admin An unidentified corpse of a man found in the morning hours of Friday lying at the waste disposal site of Bateba Street by Etta Agbor, Calabar is being evacuated by the Cross River State Task Force on Refuse Evacuation and Cleanliness. According to its Chairman, Mr. Eric Anderson when called on phone said