By Jonathan Ugbal Traditional Rulers, youths and government officials in Obudu Local Government Area and Vandekiya Local Government Area of Cross River and Benue States respectively have engaged in different meetings to settle the protracted Abonkib, Mbazerem and Mbaduku communal clash. Abonkib is in Obudu while Mbazerem is in Kwande and Mbaduku in Vandeikya Local
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Cross River Governor, Senator Ben Ayade has directed the immediate deployment of troops from the Brigadier Godwin Ally cantonment in Ogoja to quell the renewed communal clash between the Abonkib community in Obudu local government area and the Mgbazerem community of Vandeikya local government area of Benue state. CrossRiverWatch had earlier reported
By CrossRiverWatch Admin One person has been rushed to the Obudu clinic and doctors are already battling to save his life as fresh hostilities resume between the Bette people in Obudu LGA of Cross River state and the Tivs in Vandekiya LGA of Benue state. Proprietor of Obudu Clinic, Dr. Abu Undiandeye, told CrossRiverWatch that,
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The emergence of attacks by the Fulani Nomads is not strange to me and should not be to the Bette, Igede, and Ukel (Bekwara) people of both Cross River and the Tiv communities in Benue State. An attempt to trace the origin, exodus and settlement of the Bette Agba kindred as part
By Jonathan Ugbal A primary school teacher, Akomaye Betiang, has been shot in the hand following renewed conflicts between the Bette community in Obudu local government area of northern Cross River State and the Tivs in Vandeikya local government area of southern Benue state. Mr. Betiang was shot Friday morning sources told CrossRiverWatch while tending
By Jonathan Ugbal and Itiunbe Atunka Following a warning by the Youths Council president in Obudu local government area, Agba Benedict that his counterpart in Adikpo local government area of neighbouring Benue state called to inform him of an impending attack on the Bette clan, CrossRiverWatch has reliably gathered that youths and adult are mobilizing
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Cross River born entertainer Shan George, is calling for audition for roles in an upcoming film she is set to shoot in Bette language. Bette is one of the major sub-dialectal groups of the Bantu stock and a sub-group of Ekoi spoken with little variants in 5 political wards in the Obudu local government
By Jonathan Ugbal Over a decade after the Bette-Tiv war which saw several lives lost with attendant destruction of farmlands and properties, a directive by the Police and NSCDC in Obudu nearly caused another war again Thursday last week, CrossRiverWatch sources reveal. “The Police and the NSCDC carried their vans and told us to relax