The Deputy Governor’s office, which initiated the request on December 2, 2025, has not commented on next steps. By TheInvestigator In a significant legal opinion that could resolve decades-old tensions between neighbouring communities, the Cross River State Attorney-General, Barrister Ededem Ani, has concluded that the Adiwam River serves as the official boundary between Ochon in […]
Alesi and Ochon communities in Cross River State, in Nigeria’s South South, remain torn apart over a boundary dispute that has claimed several lives. The Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta has tried to broker peace, but the problems persist. By Arinze Chijioke It was a sombre Thursday afternoon in Alesi, a community […]
More than 150 people, mostly young men, have been killed in Erei communities in Cross River over lingering communal disputes, according to Gabriel Ukam Iyam, clan head of 10 Erei communities. By Godwin Otang Five years after war erupted in Erei-speaking communities in the Biase Local Government Area of Cross River State, authorities are yet […]
The theme is “Safety of life and properties over communal war”. By Archibong Jeremiah Cross River State chapter of the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) has concluded a state-wide town hall meeting on security. The town hall meeting began in the Northern senatorial district, went to the Central, and ended in the South, Thursday […]
By Asare Asare, Daily Post No fewer than 20 persons have been feared killed in Sunday’s renewed clash between people of Yache-Ijiegu community in Yala LGA of Cross River State and Tiv settlers from Benue State, over lingering boundary clashes. Specific numbers of casualties are yet to be determined, but women and children are feared […]
By Judex Okoro, The Sun Newspaper The incessant outbreaks of communal clashes in Cross River state have continued unabated as 35 houses have been burnt with three thousand persons displaced in Ovonum and Ofatura in Obubra local government area over the struggle for peace of land. In almost all border communities, it has become the […]