By Jonathan Ugbal: Government House Correspondent Wanted militant and leader of the Bakassi Strike Force, Simply Benjamin Ene popularly referred to as G1, on Monday surrendered arms alongside members of his team in a special amnesty offered by the Cross River State Government. The amnesty comes almost two years after Mr. Benjamin had indicated interest
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Bakassi Strike Force, a militant group in the Niger Delta, on Tuesday expressed a desire to lay down arms if the concerns of Bakassi returnees are addressed under a scheme midwifed by international mediators. A leader of BSF, Simple Benjamin, aka “Humble Lion G1” in a telephone interview on Tuesday told
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Nigerian military, Thursday in a statement said their operatives raided 4 militant camps belonging to suspected members of the Bakassi Strike Force and discovered a total of 23 human skulls at different levels of decomposition and a full human skeleton in Bakassi and Akpabuyo local governments in Southern Cross River state.
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Troops from the 13 Brigade of the Nigerian Army Calabar, at the early hours of today, Friday repelled an attack on its soldiers and killed 7 armed militants at Efut Esighi in Bakassi local government area of Cross River. Capt. Kayode Owolabi, Public Relations Officer (PRO) for 13 Brigade who disclosed this
By CrossRiverWatch admin The Nigerian Army has confirmed that militants killed one of its personnel in Bakassi Local Government Area on Saturday. Sani Usman, the Director of Army Public Relations, who confirmed the incident in a statement, however, said the troops killed two of the militants in the attack that occurred in the morning. He
By CrossRiverWatch admin Militants in Bakassi Local government of Cross River State have warned their ilk in the creeks of Bayelsa and Delta state to desist from continuous bombing of oil pipelines and ,embrace dialogue as an option to end the crisis in the region. In a message to the Niger Delta Avengers, the leader
By Frank Edima The Nigerian Army in Bakassi LGA has commenced intensive search to fish out militants marauding the community on bikes with dangerous weapons. CrossRiverWatch gathered that some militant groups in Esighi, Bakassi hijacked a Cameroon bound boat filled with new motorcycles on the sea, sometime in August and sold the bikes at cheap
by crossriverwatch admin The Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta, Operation Pulo Shield said on Sunday that it had dismantled a militant camp in the Bakassi Local Government Area of Cross River. A statement by the Media Coordinator of the JTF, Lt.-Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, in Yenagoa, said that various arms were recovered from