By CrossRiverWatch Admin Suspected armed Ambazonian militants in Cameroon have reportedly held Belegete Community in Obanliku Local Government Area of Cross River State, Nigeria, captive and left many injured. Belegete community is a border village between Nigeria and Cameroon within the edges of the Obanliku plateau, the community has no access road or network to
By Godwin Otang After a prolonged 8-year leadership crisis, the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association (IPMAN), Cross River State, has enthroned a new leadership for the foremost oil and Gas group. The new leadership headed by one of its members Comrade Robert Obi, is made up of an 11-man executive, who were elected at the Annual
Enugu State has 68 development centers spread across the 17 local government areas of the state. Most of these centers have become comatose despite having salary-earning workers and administrators assigned to them. The decaying state of these centers is the focus of this report by Ben Aroh. In 2003, the administration of former governor Chimaroke
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Information reaching our newsroom has it that minutes ago a crisis broke out between two Yala communities in Cross River State. A native of one of the communities reached out to our newsroom. The communities fighting are Benekaba and Ujama, Ukelle South. Four persons were shot and are in critical condition in
By Kehinde Ogunyale Listen To The Report “With a N20,000 bribe, an external buyer can influence the youth in host communities in Cross River State, to cut down trees from the forest illegally.” Traveling into the Cross River forest as a researcher – let alone a reporter – to investigate the increasing impact of deforestation
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Cross River State Deputy Governor, Prof. Ivara Esu has visited the Alesi and Ochon, the recent warring communities in Cross River State. Casualties have been recorded in the communal crisis which began yesterday between the brother villages, Alesi in Ikom and Ochon in Obubra LGAs, both in central Cross River State.
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Our newsroom has gotten a footage of army men clearing the road block caused by communal crisis between Alesi and Ochon. The crisis erupted yesterday which led to the blocking of the Calabar-Ikom highway. Alesi is in Ikom while Ochon is in Obubra, central senatorial district in Cross River State. Watch:
By Ogochukwu Anioke, The Nation Newspaper Five farmers have been killed in Ali Ugwele, an Ekoli-Edda community in Afikpo South Local Council of Ebonyi State. Sources said they were killed by assailants from neighbouring Erei village in Biasa Local Council of Cross River State. Ekoli-Edda and Erei have been at daggers drawn over the ownership