The road to Ugep, in better-governed countries, should have been a ten-hour love affair between man and landscape, a smooth, lazy dance of asphalt from Abuja’s orderly chaos into the green bosom of home. But this is Nigeria, my friend, where even a simple road trip can audition for a Nollywood tragedy. Mine became a…
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We can confirm that one person has been killed in what local sources say is a power tussle between two factions of a yet to be identified local cult group in Ugep, Cross River State. The deceased, identified by local sources as one Usang, from Assiga village, Yakurr LGA, is married and has children. We…
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The Royal Pearls Women Group in Ugep, Yakurr LGA, Cross River State, has empowered 150 indigenous women in the area through the distribution of improved seeds/seedlings to them for the current farming season. Seeds/seedlings distributed include improved pumpkin, cucumber, maize, pepper and egusi seeds as well as high yielding cassava stems. Teyojesam Eko, Executive Director…
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Among my indigenous Ugep, Yakurr people, ‘Foundation ké-nöi’, is an integral communal activity that members of the paternal clan compulsorily take part in. ‘Foundation ké-nöi’, is simply the gathering of paternal clan members, at the insistence of one clan member, to inform them that the building of a house is about to be embarked on….
The Ekoi Association North America, EANA, has donated hospital equipment worth millions of naira to the Model Primary Health Centre, Usene, Ugep, Yakurr LGA, as part of her commitment to help raise primary health care standards in Cross River State. At a public presentation of hospital beds, mattresses, bedsheets, pillows and pillow cases, a giant…
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A 30-year old mother of one, Miracle Eteng Okoi, has been killed in Ugep, Yakurr Local Government Area, CRS, in circumstances suspected to be a ritual killing. Sources in Ugep, Yakurr LGA, Cross River Central, say the victim, who went missing in fuzzy circumstances last Wednesday morning, was found 48 hours after, buried in a…