By Sylvia Akpan, Government House Correspondent The Executive Governor of Cross River State, Sen. Bassey Edet Otu has lifted the ban on logging and dissolved the anti-deforestation taskforce. This was made known in a press release signed by Prof. Anthony Owan Enoh, Secretary to the State Government, dated 10th August, 2023 with reference number SSG/GSA/102/VOL.VI/226.
By Mary Bassey, House of Assembly Correspondent The Cross River House of Assembly has resolved to lift the ban on logging in the State, directing the Clerk to write to the Governor. During the plenary Tuesday 4 July 2023, the member representing Boki 1 Constituency, Hon.Obi Philip Bette raised a motion to that effect, positing
By George Odok, EnviroNews Nigeria The people of Ekuri community in Akamkpa Local Government of Cross River State are demanding the sum of N500 million compensation from Ezemac International Nigeria Limited over illegal logging. The community alleged that the company carried out illegal logging in Ekuri forest, a Community Conserved Area (CCA) in Akamkpa Local
By Francis Annagu, Florence Kekong and Farah Jolly In the Cross River State Rainforest, an average of 250 tons of timber is harvested daily; in 10 days, 2,500 tons are lost and within a year 91,250 tons of timber leave the State. As a result of deforestation, small trees and other forest products are destroyed.
By Ogar Monday A report by two non-governmental organizations, We The People and the Rainforest Resources Development Centre (RRDC), have indicted 79 companies and individuals, including Dansa Allied Agro, a subsidiary of Dangote Group, Wilmar International, the Cross River State Government for the continuous depletion of the forest in the State. The 23-page report highlighted
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 Ogar Monday Listen To The Report A Non-Governmental Organization, Rainforest Resource, and Developmental Center, RRDC, has asked the Cross River State Government to furnish it with a detailed report of a fallen trailer in Ikom, laden with suspected illegal timber. In the letter signed by Mr. Odey Oyama, the Executive Director of RRDC, and
By Ogar Monday Listen To The Report Some members of the Okwango community, in Boki Local Government Area, a host community of the Cross River State National Park, and the World Conservation Society, WCS, program have bemoaned the organization and the Government for abandoning them and letting them suffer despite an existing ban on illegal