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The police in Nasarawa State, on 20 January arrested 38 protesters for alleged public disturbance over the recent Supreme Court judgment, which upheld the election of Governor Abdullahi Sule.

A coalition of 300 women led Civil Society groups and individuals have condemned the arrest and detention of 30 unarmed nude women who protested the Nasarawa state gubernatorial verdict. The Police in Nasarawa State, on Jan. 20 arrested 38 protesters for alleged public disturbance over the recent Supreme Court Judgment , which upheld the election

The seventeen (17) kilometers Okuni/Nsofang Road that leads to Nsofang, a community in Etung Local Government Area of central Cross River State, has been funded three times by the federal government. Yet, it is still in very bad shape. Commuters that use the road are constantly exposed to grave dangers due to its impassibility despite gulping over N113 million.

Last June the Cross River State Government issued a press statement that announced the cancellation of agreement on the operation of the state’s owned commercial plane being managed by Aero Contractors.  The state instead reassigned the lease manager of its Boeing 737-300, known as Cally Air, to Melers Global Resources, a company that was incorporated for crop and animal production, hunting, and related services, according to a record from the Corporate Affairs Commission. 

Cross River State may be heading towards climate crisis as the pristine rain forest is fast vanishing, Nigerian Tribune reports. The Cross River Rain

The Cross River Basin Development Authority, CRBDA, an agency of the Federal Government of Nigeria in 2021 contracted Fuuz Nigeria Limited to rehabilitate a solar-powered borehole, and town hall at Ikot Effanga Mkpa in Calabar Municipality for N7.3 million. The contract, CrossRiverWatch learnt, was awarded without budgetary provision which violates section 5, sub 4.2b of the Public Procurement Act, 2007.