By CrossRiverWatch Admin Listen To The Report Report reaching our newsroom has it that the decades-long communal crisis between the Onyadama community in Obubra and Nko in Yakurr Cross River State is threatening to surface again. Source told CrossRiverWatch that, Onyadama indigenes of Obubra allegedly captured and whisked away an Nko man due to lingering
By Ogar Monday Listen to The Article An unidentified officer of Nigeria’s Vehicle Inspection Agency, VIO in Cross River State has been asked to replace a vehicle’s windscreen he destroyed. The officer, CrossRiverWatch understands, was on duty at Obubra, on the ever-busy Ikom-Calabar highway when the incident happened. Elijah Ugani, a journalist who posted the
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 CrossRiverWatch Admin Information reaching CrossRiverWatch newsroom suggests that no fewer than three people have been injured after the Nigerian Army opened fire on youths in Alesi community of Ikom Local Government Area. A communal clash broke out yesterday between the farming communities of Alesi and Ochon in Ikom and Obubra Local Government Areas respectively.
By Emma Una, Vanguard Newspaper There was confusion in Owakande 2 in Obubra Local Government Area of Cross River State following the disappearance of the body of a lawyer, Mr. Egbara Owan which was scheduled for interment at the weekend. The programme for internment of the man had begun with a lying-in-state at the Obubra
By CrossRiverWatch Admin No fewer than four communities in central Cross River State are currently embroiled in a bitter war over farmlands with three reported dead so far. In Ikom Local Government Area, the Nnam and Abankang communities are fighting over a small piece of land. Sources say at least three have died – one
By Agency Reporter Limestone deposit have been discovered in Obubra Local Government Area of Cross River State, Nigeria. The deposit of limestone was found in Onyen-Okpon community, Obubra by the State Commissioner for Solid Minerals, Hon. George O’ben Etchi and his team. The natural deposit is said to stretch about 10km across the neatly seated