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”…