Abuja based lawyer and human rights activist, Efa Oka, has written to the local council administrations in Abi and Yakurr local government areas, demanding information and record of the monthly allocation separately received by both councils from the State Local Government Joint allocation Committee, from June 2020 till May 2021. Additionally, the lawyer also wants,…
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Suspected vandals, still wanted by the police, are believed to have scuttled plans by Cross River State governor, Ben Ayade, to boost the supply of electricity to parts of Yakurr Local Government Area, CRS. Government sources in Calabar, the state capital, revealed to www.calitown.com that the governor had despatched John Inyang, Commissioner for Lands and…
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A young man has this afternoon been confirmed dead in a suspected cult shooting that rocked Ugep, Yakurr Local Government, this afternoon. The deceased, identified to www.calitown.com as Otu Otu Eno a.k.a Otu Idiagbon, is said to have been shot in the stomach at close range, resulting in his death. While family members appear to…
We can reliably inform that in the last 72 hours, extreme violence has been unleashed in Mkpani, Yakurr Local Government Area, Cross River Central, believed largely to be a fallout from a chieftaincy tussle which has seemingly refused to go away. Several lives have been lost while property worth millions of naira has been destroyed…
Ugep, headquarters of Yakurr Local Government Area, Cross River State was agog as the new Paramount Ruler of the LGA and the Obol Lopon of Ugep, HRM. Obol Ofem Ubana Eteng, returned to the area, after his election as Paramount Ruler of the LGA and subsequent arrival in Ugep. People lined the streets of Ugep…
The Cross River State Government says it is deeply disappointed “at the threat to peace and security that was witnessed in some communities in Yakurr Local Government Area recently”, adding that “communities that should ordinarily co-exist mutually as kith and kin engaged each other in an ignoble war, with mindless killings and destruction of both…
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