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“Let Them Return My Husband To Me”

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Far removed from Calabar, the Cross River State capital, the Usumutong and Ediba communities in Abi LGA are engaged in a communal clash with very dire consequences for both communities. In Ediba over the weekend, www.calitown.com caught up with one Jenny Innocent Isaac whose husband went missing more than two weeks ago in very painful…

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“I Escaped Death”, Communal Clash Victim Reveals

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20-year-old Destiny Arukwu of Enusukwe, Ediba in Abi LGA has exclusively told www.calitown.com how he escaped death in the hands of persons he suspects to be from neighbouring Usumutong also in Abi LGA, in circumstances not unrelated with the tension that has been building between both communities. Arukwu said on the fateful Sunday, September 7th,…

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Usumutong/Ediba Close To War Again

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While consistent efforts on the part of government and well meaning indigenes of Cross River State have been invested in ensuring that the intractable differences between the Bahumono communities of Usumutong and Ediba in Abi LGA do not give birth to a full blown communal clash, www.calitown.com can reveal that unless something is urgently done…

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Group Insists Abi Deserves House Of Reps Seat

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A socio-political organization, The Unique Alliance, TUA, is insisting that while attempts are presently being made to perpetrate the Abi/Yakurr House of Representative seat in Yakurr, the normal order of things will be for Abi LGA, the other half of the political marriage, to lay claim to the seat in 2015 and demand that her…

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Yakurr/Abi Youth Forum Organises Town Hall Meeting

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By Obeten Effiom A socio-political group, the Yakurr/Abi Youth Forum has organised a town hall meeting in support of a peaceful political transition as next year’s polls approach, www.calitown.com can reveal. At the Ugep main square, venue of the occasion, chair of the occasion and National President of the forum, Ubi E. Etowa, in his…

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Families Evacuate As Hard Knocks Drop For CRSG Handling Of Crisis

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Early this morning, calitown.com sources revealed that after a night where youths and men in both Usumutong and Ediba kept vigil, protecting their respective communities against any form of attack as the communal clash between the communities take on days, most families have begun evacuating children and the elderly to surrounding communities. A source insisted…

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