By Etim Etim The family of Prof. Ignatius Uduk, the University of Uyo professor of Human Kinetics convicted of electoral fraud last week, says they’ve been financially and emotionally exhausted by the five-year trial of their father. Mrs Unwana Willie, the eldest child and Barr. Ruth Uduk, the fifth of Prof Uduk’s six children spoke…
Odey Oyama. By Anietie Akpan For the unptempt time, the Police Prosecutor on the matter against an environmental activist, Comrade Odey Oyama, has failed to produce evidence for trial as earlier ordered by the Magistrate Court in Calabar. The Magistrate, Okoho Bassey Otu, had on February 7, in the case no MC/20c/2025, ordered the prosecutor,…
Director RRDC, Odey Oyama. By Anietie Akpan, Calabar A Magistrate Court sitting in Calabar on January 22, 2025 granted an environmental activist, Comrade Odey Oyama bail after spending about eight days in police custody, saying the matter lacked merit and there was no case file and no motion. Consequently the matter was adjourned…
By Anietie Akpan, Calabar The trial of an Environmental Activist, Comrade Odey Oyama, was Monday stalled as the Cross River State Police command failed to produce him in court He was billed to appear at Magistrate Court 1 by noon along Moore road but by as at 4pm close of work,there was no sign…
By Magnus Effiong/Princewill Kingston Crisis is brewing at the headquarters of the Cross River Basin Development Authority (CRBDA) located in 8 miles, Calabar, over the reported theft of MF 275 tractor belonging to the Authority. Besides, the CRBDA workers, weekend, blocked the main entrance to the Basin Authority headquarters in protest over alleged non-payment of…
Front Row: State Chief Judge, Justice Akon Bassey Ikpeme (6th L), Deputy Governor, Rt. Hon. Peter Odey (7th L) and others at the commencement of the 2024/2025 legal year. By Anietie Akpan As the 2024/2025 legal year opens, the Governor of Cross River State, Sen. Bassey Edet Otu, has urged Judges in the state to…
By Magnus Effiong The High Court of Cross River State, presided by Justice Elias Abua, has thrown out a suit which sought an order of interlocutory injunction to remove the Obong of Calabar, Edidem Ekpo Okon Abasi-Otu V. Justice Abua said that giving such orders without any tangible reason would do “incalculable and avoidable damage”…
By Anietie Akpan The Uyo Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has secured the conviction and sentence of 12 internet fraudsters in Cross River and Akwa Ibom states. The fraudsters according to a press release dated June 11 by the Media and Publicity unit of the Uyo Zonal Command of the…
By Ekanem Wylie/Magnus Effiong The passage of the 2024 Service Commission Amendment Bill by the Cross River House of Assembly may have succinctly pitched the Honourable Members against the Executive arm, that is, if feelers reaching Pillar Today is anything to by. The Bill, according to a source in the Governor’s Office who preferred anonymity,…
Efik women, under the aegis of Mbono Iban Nsidung, have protested the incarceration of 80 years old Etubom Efio-Ita Efiom, who is said to have been sentenced to three years imprisonment without an option of fine. The protesting women, who stormed the Palace of the Obong of Calabar over the matter, carried placards with inscriptions…
