…Cross River CP orders Area Commanders and Divisional Police Officers to secure the highway Unknown gunmen have abducted a former Accountant-General of Cross River State, Rose Bassey. The kidnappers it was gathered abducted three others during the attack that occurred on Tuesday evening at Uyanga-Okomita area of the Ikom-Calabar highway. One of the victims was said to
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…as monarch commends youths who have been toiling to manually rehabilitate the road Communities in Cross River State have protested the deplorable condition of their access roads. Youths and other natives of Nta, Nsele and Edor communities in Ikom, expressed anger over the fact that since 55 years ago when a former Head of State,
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A Port Harcourt, Rivers State-based businessman, Mr Terrance Abang, was on Thursday brutalised by officials of Yakurr Taskforce in Ugep, after he stopped at a petrol station to refuel his vehicle. The victim who suffered severe burns, called on the Cross River State Commissioner of Police, Aminu Alhassan to compel the Yakurr Local Government Council
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A gun making factory has been uncovered in Uyanga, in the Akampa Local Government Area of Cross River State. The factory was uncovered by the Cross River State Government security outfit, Operation Akpakwu in the town about 58 kilometres away from Calabar, the state capital. According to reports, pistols and other locally-made guns, known as
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The Cross River State security outfit codename “Operation Akpakwu” on Monday demolished four houses allegedly belonging to kidnappers and other criminals in Calabar, the state capital. The Security Adviser to the Governor, Southern Senatorial District, Henry Okokon, who spoke to journalists after the operation, said the team also demolished a brothel harbouring criminals in the
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A married man simply identified as Eyom has reportedly died in Ekori, Yakkur Local Government Area in Cross River State at the weekend during a sex romp with a married woman known as Grace Odi. Reports reaching Vanguard from the area say Grace and her husband Mr Odi left their community, Assiga to the neighbouring
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The Marine Patrol team of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) in Cross River State has rescued a three-week-old baby suspected to be a victim of child trafficking on the high sea. The Cross River Comptroller of NIS, Okey Ezugwu said that the suspected child trafficker, Maureen Awokara, was arrested on December 19 at the high
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Cross River State Commissioner of Police, Mr Jimoh Ibrahim has passed on. Mr Ibrahim who is from Kwara State died at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, UCTH, reportedly of pneumonia complications this morning. A source close to the man, Mr Rasheed Olariwaju the AIT reporter in Cross River told Vanguard that the man was
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The Cross River State Police Command, has said it has arrested three suspected car theives over the alleged robbery of a household in Calabar, the state capital. It was learnt that the car thieves, carried out the operation in the victims’ house and made away with a 2018 Corolla Toyota worth N8 million. It was
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Two persons have lost their lives at the weekend after a truck fell into the Yahe river in Cross River State. The bodies of two persons were fished out of the Yahe river in Yala Local Government Area after the truck they were travelling with plunged into the river. The names of those killed in
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Doctors in Nigeria’s Cross River state began an indefinite strike on Wednesday in protest over the abduction of its colleague, Godwin Udo, of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital. This was disclosed by Innocent Abang, the state Chairperson of NMA in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday. Mr Abang
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COVID-19 palliatives were reportedly discovered to be stored in the state warehouse in Cross River State. The state warehouse located in Murtala Mohammed Highway in the state capital which contained thousands of cartoons of noodles was reportedly found and invaded by angry residents who fought their way into the warehouse to grab some share of
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Angry mob beheaded and set five suspected armed robbers ablaze on Saturday in Ikot Effio Okon Etim in Akpabuyo local government area of Cross River State. It was gathered that a 7-man gang allegedly broke into a shop at about 3am on Saturday, October 17, and made away with electronic gatgets worth thousands of naira
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Not fewer than Two persons have been confirmed dead while three others are still missing following a renewed communal clashes between the people of Izzi in Ebonyi State and their neighbours of Obubara community in Cross River State. It was also revealed that three other persons from Obeagu Ibom, Amachi, Izzi community are still missing
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A fresh crisis is brewing in the All Progressives Congress following a controversy over parties’ candidates for the October 31 elections for Imo North and Cross River North Senatorial Districts respectively. The primary election team sent to Imo State conducted the exercise in Okigwe , headquarters of the Senatorial District , but two separate results
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