by crossriverwatch admin Bakassi indigenes ejected from their Efut Obot Ikot village by Cameroonian authorities in March and now sheltering in St. Mark Primary School, Ikot Eyo in Akpabuyo Local Government area are now in a standoff with the Bakassi local government officials who want them to relocate to Ekpri Ikang in Bakassi. To eject
by crossriverwatch admin On November 1st 1995, the National Commission for Museums and Monuments, NCMM submitted to World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Education Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) a proposal for the listing and declaration of the Oban Hills as a World Heritage Site. 17 years after, the desires of the NCMM and
by crossriverwatch admin Seventeen people are still missing even as one thousand nine hundred refuges are camped in very squalid condition at the St. Mark Primary School, Eyo Edem in Akpabuyo local Government Area of Cross River State. Senator Florence Ita Giwa who visited the refugee camp which has witnessed three births on Tuesday to
by crossriverwatch admin The increase in the activities of sea pirates along the Bakassi River and other coastal communities in Cross River State have become a source of worry to the people of the riverine communities. A crossriverwatch correspondent who visited the communities gathered that the development has rendered their youths and able adults idle
by Guardian In an unbridled breach of the 2005 Green Tree Agreement (GTA), Cameroun has sacked over 1,000 Nigerians living in Bakassi Peninsula who had accepted Cameroun’s sovereignty. Already, two women among the returnees have put to bed in their refugee camp in Akwa Ikot Eyo, Akpabuyo Local Council of Cross River State. The GTA
by crossriverwatch admin Mr. Harvey Schartup, Managing Director of Markets II, an arm of the United States Agency for International Development, USAID has expressed the readiness of his organization to invest in the Agricultural sector in Cross River State. Mr. Harvey Schartup whose organization is an arm of USAID disclosed this in Calabar, when he
by crossriverwatch admin All is now set for the signing of a five year Memorandum of Understanding between the Cross River state government and the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, USA. Special Adviser to governor Imoke on Intergovernmental Relations and Liaison, Abuja Barr Joe Edet made the disclosure to newsmen recently in Abuja
by crossriverwatch admin A boat traveling from Oron in Akwa Ibom State to Gabon Today capsized at the Calabar Waterways with no fewer than 166 passengers feared dead. Eyewitnesses told crossriverwatch that the passengers were traveling in a “giant-sized wooden boat’’ when it capsized at 40 nautical miles along the coast of Calabar off Gabon