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
By Agosi Todo, The Guardian Nine communities that make up Bahumono nation in Cross River State, last week, were nostalgic about the death of 200,000 youths over land disputes. The communities, located in the Abi Local Government Area of the State, including Ediba, Usumutong, Ebijakara, only embraced peace last year after 14 years of communal
By Judex Okoro, The Sun Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River has inaugurated a Peace, Reconciliation and Rehabilitation Committee to resolve age-long land disputes between Ebom/Ebiaghara and Ediba/Usumutong communities in Abi Local Government Area of the State. The people of Ebom, Ebijaghara, Ediba and Usumutong communities have been engaged in an age-long fratricidal war over
By Archibong Jeremiah The Cross River State Governor, Sen. Ben Ayade has met with his colleagues from Sokoto, Delta bad Enugu State. Governor Ayade who took to social media to reveal details of their meeting stated that he is positive his party, PDP will survive the current crisis and come out strong. In his words,
By Nicholas Kalu, The Nation Newspaper The House of Representatives has mandated its Committees on Army, Navy, Police and Interior to liaise with the Federal Government to set up a joint patrol team of the security agencies on the waterways to beef up security in the coastal areas. This followed a motion calling for intervention