Fire engulfed four shops and a residential apartment in William George Street, off Edgerly in Calabar South Local Government Area (LGA) of Cross River state. It was gathered that there were no fatalities but the owners of the shops recorded loss of properties worth millions of naira, as residents of the area battled to contain the fire. It was reported …

A Federal High Court in Calabar has dismissed the terrorism, treasonable felony, and cybercrime charges against an online newspaper publisher, Agba Jalingo. Reprieve for the publisher of CrossRiverWatch came over two-and-a-half years after he was arrested in August 2019. In Calabar on Monday, Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu followed the cue of the Cross River State Government, which withdrew the charges against …