The killing of one Monday Isaac Uyo, a commercial motorcyclist from Ediba, Abi Local Government Area, Cross River State, has heightened fear among the warring communities in the area that efforts at finding a lasting solution to the brutal communal clash between Ediba, Usumutong, Ebom and Ebijakara communities, may go up in the air. Uyo,…
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Just days after the communal conflict in Bahumono Clan, Abi Local Government Area, Cross River Central, erupted for the umpteenth time, several internally displaced persons, fleeing from the conflict, have poured into neighbouring Ugep, Yakurr LGA, most of them taking up shelter at the Palace of the Obol Lopon of Ugep, Obol Ofem Ubana Eteng….
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By Rekpene David Some residents of Calabar Municipality, Cross River State, have expressed concern over the deplorable state of roads in the metropolis, urging the government to declare a state of emergency on some of the roads. Etim Ekpo a resident of Old Marian in the municipality, have complained about the increasing potholes that have…
I am deeply saddened by the resurgence of hostilities and the barefaced refusal of my brothers and sisters in Abi Local Government Area to give peace a chance. More painful is the fact that again and again, our local people in the warring communities of Ediba, Usumutong and now Ebom, are unaware that while we…
That part of Abi Local Government Area, Cross River State, recently christened, “Cross River’s Theatre of War”, erupted this morning as the Usumutong and Ebom communities clashed in what has become an endless cycle of vicious attacks and killings. The www.calitown.com reporter covering the conflict was unable to point to what triggered the latest round…
In what appears to be a direct fallout from the just concluded internal political selection processes of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, several party men and women in Ediba, Abi Local Government Area, Cross River State, have defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC, in a move that is currently giving the PDP food for…
