By Mary Bassey, House of Assembly Correspondent The Cross River State 10th Assembly has kicked against a petition sent to President Bola Tinubu by a group identified as the Indigenous Displaced People of Bakassi, communities urging the federal government to remove Bakassi from the 774 local government areas in the country. According to Bakassi Joint
By Sylvia Akpan The people of Bakassi Local Government Area of Cross River State, have rejected the agitation by Senator Florence Ita Giwa, Barr. Okoi Obono-Obla and others for the LGA to be delisted from Nigeria’s 774 LGAs. The group under the umbrella of Ikang Joint Assembly, chided the agitators after an interview they granted
By Street News A teenager has allegedly killed a two-year old boy in Ikang Town Community of Bakassi Local Government Area of Cross River State. A video of the two years old found lifeless in a laundry shop in Ikang Town, surfaced online. StreetNews reports that the sad event occurred on Friday, April 26 at
By Patrick Obia Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who are mostly fishermen and petty traders in the riverine area of Ikang, Bakassi Local Government Area of Cross River State, have cried out over the continued harassment and victimization by soldiers of the Nigerian Army. The soldiers who were deployed to the coastal region to
By Patrick Obia About 15 years after Nigeria finally ceded Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon, Nigerians left behind in the area have continued to face neglect from the Nigerian government. Their abandonment becomes more apparent during the just-conducted presidential and national assembly elections. Out of the 70 polling units in the area, voting took place in