by crossriverwatch admin The Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee is the rarest and most endangered of four subspecies of chimpanzee currently found in Africa. Man’s closest living relative, the ape is fully protected by Nigerian law, and now by communities also. When a chimpanzee was recently killed by a hunter in the Mbe Mountains, the entire community of
by crossriverwatch admin The production of palm oil will begin in the 6,384 hectares Wilmer Calaro Oil Palm Estate in Mbarakom, Akamkpa Local Government Area of Cross River in 2016. The Senior Estate Manager of the plantation, Mr Henry Dusmin, made the disclosure in an interview with newsmen in the Oil Palm Estate, Mbarakom recently.
by crossriverwatch admin Mr. Eno-Obong Nathaniel, a native of Akpabuyo Local Government who was reported to be sick and stranded in Calabar has given up the ghost. His lifeless body was found early this morning as at about 6:20am lingering at the edge of a gutter at no. 6A Hawkins road (Government Primary School Hawkins),
by crossriverwatch admin Farmers in Cross River State are fighting blackpod disease as rainfall increases in the South East of the country. “The rain pattern is causing infection to crops,” Godwin Ukwu, a farmer and spokesman for the Cocoa Association of Nigeria, said in a phone interview on Wednesday from Ikom, the largest cocoa-producing area
by crossriverwatch admin The Conference of Cross River State Professionals has called on delegates from Cross River State to the ongoing national conference to reopen the issue of conducting a referendum for the people of Bakassi to determine whether they want to go to Cameroon, stay in Nigeria or become a nation of their own.
by crossriverwatch admin Treated Mosquito nets are meant to be used in homes to protect family members especially children from mosquitoes and not to be used in farms and gardens to protect crops as some women do and hence forth any woman who deploy nets given to her in the garden in Cross River State
by crossriverwatch admin “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice. But there must never be a time when we fail to protest” –Elie Wiesel I wish this great scholar had my dear beloved Cross Riverians in mind when he made this statement, the present political dimension in the state as we
by crossriverwatch admin Yesterday an elderly man who seemed lost was found by residents of Inyang Ekeng Street, Calabar South, Cross River State. The man who gave his name as Mr. Eno-Obong Nathaniel a native of Akpabuyo was found at about 9:41am yesterday Wednesday sleeping in the farm of the first victim of the attempted