Tag: Yakurr Local Government Area

Visitors Flee C’R Community After Man Is Killed During New Yam Festival

October 27, 2018October 28, 2018 Admin No Comments

Several people who flocked to Assiga Community in Yakurr Local Government Area, Cross River State, for the annual Assiga New Yam festival, took hasty flight from about 3:00pm today, Saturday, October 27, 2018, after a man was shot and killed in what has been described as “fetish circumstances”. Monitored reports from the area maintain that,…

Socio-Cultural Organization Stages Anti-Cult Campaign In Ugep

January 1, 2018 Admin No Comments

On the heels of the recent cult related disturbances in several parts of Cross River State, an Abuja based Socio-Cultural organization, the Umor-Otutu Socio-Cultural Organization, says it is committed to confronting the menace of cultism first, in Ugep, Yakurr Local Government Area, Cross River Central, before taking on the entire state. At a well organized…

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BREAKING: Obono-Obla Spits Fire, Names Those Behind Ugep Cult War

July 3, 2017 Admin No Comments

Senior Special Assistant to Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Prosecutions, Okoi Obono-Obla has in a statement published not too long ago on the June 29, 2017 cult related violence in his native Ugep, Yakurr Local Government Area, Cross River Central, named 20 individuals as being behind the violence that unfortunately led to the killing of…

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Council Chairman Yet To Reply Critics, Keeps Mum

August 1, 2016 Admin No Comments

Ikpi Ikpi Akpama, Chairman of Yakurr Local Government Area, Cross River Central Senatorial district, it appears has refused to be drawn into a face-off with critics who have roundly criticized him “for abandoning the local council area” immediately the Nko/Mkpani communal clash began. Akpama’s highest profile critic from the area so far, Wilfred Inah, a…

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“Politicians Armed Those Fighting In Nko And Mkpani” – Wilfred Inah

July 16, 2016 Admin No Comments

Former Cross River State Head of Service and one-time gubernatorial candidate on the platform of the defunct National Republican Convention, NRC, Wilfred Oden Inah has disclosed that the bulk of the arms and ammunitions being used to execute the seeming intractable communal conflict between the Nko/Mkpani communities in Yakurr Local Government Area of CRS, were supplied…

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Soldier’s Death Sends CR Communities To War Again

June 1, 2016 Admin No Comments

The suspected killing of one Omini Eteng Efoli, a father of two and corporal in the Nigerian Army, this past Saturday, May 28, 2016, by persons suspected to be from one of the warring communities in Yakurr Local government Area of Cross River State is believed to be at the centre of renewed hostilities between…

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