(photo credit: Getty Images/iStock) — By Godshield Kanjal December 18, 2009, is a day Mary Atol would probably never forget. That day was the day she tied the knot with her former fiancée-turned-husband, Anthony Ewa. “It’s a day I will never forget in a hurry – as the first daughter of the house getting married …
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By Godshield Kanjal ___ For 61-year-old Mrs. Lydia Ogbeche, who retired as a grade level 12 Community Health Extension Worker in Yala Local Government Area of Cross River State, retiring from public service is not the end of her career. Unlike her colleagues who retired and relocated to their villages to start a new career …
Cross River Watch A media nonprofit based in Cross River State, Godshield Kanjal Journalism Foundation (GKJF) has launched an initiative to track the cyberbullying of Nigerian single women by the ‘alpha male’ movement. Codename GBV Tracker, is aimed at tackling the trend of bullying of women on the internet by some group of pseudo social …
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Cross River Watch Report ___ A Media Foundation based in Cross River the Godshield Kanjal Journalism Foundation has hinted that rural farmers in the State are the worst hit by climate change in the South-South geopolitical zone of Nigeria. The foundation said preliminary investigations and community engagement shows that lots of rural farming communities have …
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By Godshield Kanjal __ Across Nigeria, the butchery ‘industry’ is dominated by men, but three women are apparently breaking the stereotype in Calabar, the Cross River State capital. They believe in the popular Nigerian saying: “What a man can do, a woman can do, even better”. They are Patience Bassey 27, Iniobong Ben 29, and …
Crops grown with excessive synthetic fertilisers and herbicides are dangerous, Zonal Manager of Cross River Agricultural Development Project (CRADP), Mark Ewa, has warned. Ewa told the Godshield Kanjal Journalism Foundation “fertilisers and herbicides used by farmers contain chemicals, which when overused, injure humans.” He blamed the recourse to the trend on poor farm yields caused …
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…as scarcity looms in public hospitals in Cross River. Price of condom in pharmacies and patent medicine (chemist) shops has skyrocketed by over 100 percent, investigation reveals. An investigation by a media nonprofit, Godshield Kanjal Journalism Foundation, through its Community Vox Pop Initiative, reveals that between 2022 to 2023, there has been a steep increment …
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Foundation takes vox pop Initiative to hard-to-reach communities in Cross River. In a bid to close the gap of underreporting hard-to-reach communities, the Godshield Kanjal Journalism Foundation, a media-focused non-profit, recently launched a community Vox pop Initiative aimed at telling the untold stories of deprived people in hard-to-reach communities in Cross River State. The foundation …
