by Cameroon Tribune The 31st session of the United Nations Mixed Commission for the Implementation of the ICJ Judgment of October 10, 2002 on the 25th of April in Yaounde with many advances to show in the area of peace. The relaxed and convivial atmosphere at the cock-tail in the Yaounde Hilton, by experts and
by crossriverwatch admin The Paramount Ruler of Bakassi, Etiyin Etim Okon Edet has expressed hope that the Presidential Committee on the Resettlement of Bakassi refugees headed by the Vice President, Architect Namadi Sambo, will be the last of such and will succeed in putting smiles back to the faces of his people. Speaking when the
by crossriverwatch admin Bakassi indigenes ejected from their Efut Obot Ikot village by Cameroonian authorities in March and now sheltering in St. Mark Primary School, Ikot Eyo in Akpabuyo Local Government area are now in a standoff with the Bakassi local government officials who want them to relocate to Ekpri Ikang in Bakassi. To eject
by crossriverwatch admin Seventeen people are still missing even as one thousand nine hundred refuges are camped in very squalid condition at the St. Mark Primary School, Eyo Edem in Akpabuyo local Government Area of Cross River State. Senator Florence Ita Giwa who visited the refugee camp which has witnessed three births on Tuesday to
by Guardian In an unbridled breach of the 2005 Green Tree Agreement (GTA), Cameroun has sacked over 1,000 Nigerians living in Bakassi Peninsula who had accepted Cameroun’s sovereignty. Already, two women among the returnees have put to bed in their refugee camp in Akwa Ikot Eyo, Akpabuyo Local Council of Cross River State. The GTA
by Punch The House of Representatives on Thursday asked the Federal Government to initiate the process of conducting a referendum for the “Bakassi people, who are Nigerians.” A motion by a member representing Bakassi in the House, Mr. Ekpenyong Ayi, urged support for the rights of his people to self determination. Ayi cited Article I
by Thisday Resettlement of the displaced people of Bakassi Local Government Area at Dayspring Island by the Federal Government is top on the list of demands presented by the Bakassi People Assembly to the Presidential Committee on the Plight of Bakassi. Leaders and members of the assembly rose from their Town Hall Meeting at Transcorp
by crossriverwatch admin Ijaw Monitoring Group, IMG, has declared the Bakassi citizen as the Person of Year 2012. In a statement by Comrade Joseph Evah and Comrade Timi Igoli, Coordinator and Secretary General respectively of IMG, the Ijaw said: “The recognition was necessary to assure the people of Bakassi, whose land and people were ceded