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Jonathan Ugbal

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BREAKING: Two Policemen Shot At PDP Primaries In Obudu - CrossRiverWatch

BREAKING: Two Policemen Shot At PDP Primaries In Obudu - CrossRiverWatch

Cross River Watch — By Jonathan Ugbal Listen To The Report Two Policemen have been ahot at the venue of the People's Democratic Party, PDP House of Representatives primaries in Obudu Local Government Area. The primary is to nominate a candidate to fly the party's flag in the 2023 general elections for the Obudu/Obanliku/Bekwara federal constituency.
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#BasicEducation: Court Fails To Hear Agba Jalingo's Illegal Levies Case Against Cross River Gover...

#BasicEducation: Court Fails To Hear Agba Jalingo's Illegal Levies Case Against Cross River Gover...

Cross River Watch — By Jonathan Ugbal Listen To The Report A High Court of Cross River, presided over by Justice Bassey Ebuta failed to hear the case instituted by journalist cum rights activist, Citizen Agba Jalingo against the State Government for the continuous collection of levies and fees from pupils and students in public Primary and Junior Secondary ...
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6 Years After, Emefiele's CBN Yet To Settle Families Of Victims Of Calabar Branch Explosion - Cro...

6 Years After, Emefiele's CBN Yet To Settle Families Of Victims Of Calabar Branch Explosion - Cro...

Cross River Watch — By Jonathan Ugbal Six years after the March 11, 2016, explosion that rocked the Calabar branch of the Central Bank of Nigeria, the country's apex bank is yet to investigate the incident and make effort to pay claims by families of the victims of that unfortunate incident.
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FAAC: Did Cross River State Government Lie About Its N34 Million Allocation? - CrossRiverWatch

FAAC: Did Cross River State Government Lie About Its N34 Million Allocation? - CrossRiverWatch

Cross River Watch — By Jonathan Ugbal Listen To The Report Aides of Governor Benedict Ayade of Cross River State recently shared posts claiming the State only received N34 million as allocation from the federation account for the month of March 2022. But, data obtained from the office of the Accountant General of the Federation shows that there may ...
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Alas, We Ran From Golden Palaces To Hospitals We Did Not Build BY JONATHAN ABANG-UGBAL - CrossRiv...

Alas, We Ran From Golden Palaces To Hospitals We Did Not Build BY JONATHAN ABANG-UGBAL - CrossRiv...

Cross River Watch — Political leaders in Nigeria from time immemorial especially in the fourth republic, developed a penchant for misfiring on issues that affect all Nigerians. From power to education, infrastructure, health and the topical COVID-19 pandemic of which as at the time of putting pen to paper, the country has recorded 46 cases with more suspected.
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Excuse Me! I Am Kinetically Crystallized In An Infinite Transposition Of Deep Vision BY JONATHAN ...

Excuse Me! I Am Kinetically Crystallized In An Infinite Transposition Of Deep Vision BY JONATHAN ...

Cross River Watch — By CrossRiverWatch Admin It was Charlena Johnson in her No Cross No Crown that said that: "We shouldn't be ordinary; we should challenge ourselves and not just think inside the box. We should dare to be different and get out of the box." Whether or not, Governor Benedict Bengioushuye Ayade of Cross River State read ...
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Agba Jalingo: ECOWAS Court Awards N30mln Against Nigerian Government Over Illegal Detention, Trea...

Agba Jalingo: ECOWAS Court Awards N30mln Against Nigerian Government Over Illegal Detention, Trea...

Cross River Watch — By Jonathan Ugbal The ECOWAS Court of Justice on Friday awarded NGN30 million (USD72,922) against the Nigerian Government over its illegal treatment and detention of journalist and rights activist, Agba Jalingo. The Court in suit number ECW/CCJ/APP/10/20 upheld the prayers of civil society group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) which had instituted the suit ...
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How Cocoa Estate, Ayade's Disagreement With AIG Mbu Led To Oscar Ofuka's Botched Arrest - CrossRi...

How Cocoa Estate, Ayade's Disagreement With AIG Mbu Led To Oscar Ofuka's Botched Arrest - CrossRi...

Cross River Watch — By Jonathan Ugbal Following the botched arrest of Oscar Ofuka, Special Adviser to Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River on cocoa development at the premises of the Cross River Broadcasting Corporation in Calabar on Tuesday, more details have emerged about how ego and flouted agreements led to the heated situation.
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AMBUSHED: More Details Emerge From Ayade's Sudden Defection - CrossRiverWatch

AMBUSHED: More Details Emerge From Ayade's Sudden Defection - CrossRiverWatch

Cross River Watch — By Jonathan Ugbal More details are emerging from the defection of Governor Ben Ayade from the People's Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) last week thursday. Details emerging now show that Mr. Ayade may have also been ambushed in the same manner his defection shocked some of his aides and political allies.
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Doubts, Mystery Persists Days After 13 Year Old Allegedly Committed Suicide - CrossRiverWatch

Doubts, Mystery Persists Days After 13 Year Old Allegedly Committed Suicide - CrossRiverWatch

Cross River Watch — By Jonathan Ugbal It has been five days since news broke that 13 year old Nsebong (other name unknown) allegedly committed suicide and what led to her demise remains a mystery. While initial reports suggested that she hung herself and had watched carefully to ensure no one was going to see her, the mood in ...
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Irregular Secret: Inside Cross River's Public Education System Of Structured Extortion - CrossRiv...

Irregular Secret: Inside Cross River's Public Education System Of Structured Extortion - CrossRiv...

Cross River Watch — By Agba Jalingo and Jonathan Ugbal Primary and Secondary schools form the basis in the Nigerian educational system and unfortunately, in Cross River State, public and civil servants have devised a means to enrich themselves via a systemic means of extortion that grows every year.
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#CRIMEWatch: CrossRiverWatch Obtains Names Of Police Officers Killed At Idundu - CrossRiverWatch

#CRIMEWatch: CrossRiverWatch Obtains Names Of Police Officers Killed At Idundu - CrossRiverWatch

Cross River Watch — By Jonathan Ugbal As more details emerge over the gruesome murder of four policemen by gunmen on Thursday, CrossRiverWatch has obtained more details about the incident. The team was deployed by the Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of Tinapa Area on stop and search duty along Idundu road.
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FAAC: How Cross River Government Deducts, Starves LGA's Of Allocation - CrossRiverWatch

FAAC: How Cross River Government Deducts, Starves LGA's Of Allocation - CrossRiverWatch

Cross River Watch — By Jonathan Ugbal Documents obtained by CrossRiverWatch have revealed how the Cross River State Government starves its 18 Local Government Councils of funds. The Local Governments are captured each month when the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) meets to share revenue generated from across the country in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory.
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16 Times Ayade Has Ordered Recruitment And Once It Worked - CrossRiverWatch

16 Times Ayade Has Ordered Recruitment And Once It Worked - CrossRiverWatch

Cross River Watch — By Jonathan Ugbal Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State on Thursday "ordered" the recruitment of 20,000 people into the State and Local Government Service. CrossRiverWatch takes a look at some of the times he directed or "ordered" recruitments since his assumption into office as Governor on May 29, 2015 for his first term and ...
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What Citizen Agba Jalingo Would Have Said (Part 1) By Jonathan Ugbal

What Citizen Agba Jalingo Would Have Said (Part 1) By Jonathan Ugbal

Sahara Reporters — For those, who may have been advising the governor against announcing his travel plans, know that those are signs of dictatorship, despotic leadership and an attempt to cover up what may be acts inimical to the common good of the people
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Spaghetti Flyover: Delay In Completion, Lack Of Bypass Route Causes Recurrent Gridlock In Odukpan...

Spaghetti Flyover: Delay In Completion, Lack Of Bypass Route Causes Recurrent Gridlock In Odukpan...

Cross River Watch — By Jonathan Ugbal The lack of a bypass route at the construction site of the spaghetti flyover in Odukpani Local Government Area and the delays in its completion have led to constant gridlocks at the only road entry point to Calabar, the Cross River State capital.
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Calabar Residents Protest, Cry Out Over Abandoned World Bank Erosion Project - CrossRiverWatch

Calabar Residents Protest, Cry Out Over Abandoned World Bank Erosion Project - CrossRiverWatch

Cross River Watch — By Jonathan Ugbal Listen To The Report Residents of the Ikot Effanga Mkpa E2 estate in Calabar Municipal on Saturday protested over the abandonment of the gully erosion remediation project by contractors. The project, implemented by the Cross River State office of the Nigerian Erosion Watershed Management Project, NEWMAP is funded by the World Bank.
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