Our 'Madam' Forced Us to Sleep with 20 Men a Day for N500 Each - Rescued Teenage Girls

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Four teenage girls, who were tricked into prostitution in a notorious Calabar  brothel, Vegas Flex,  weekend recounted   how they   sleep  with more than 20 men daily and how their ‘Madam’ collects the money.

 The girls, Felicia Nzuworgar, 17; Patience Williams, 18; Angela Benjamin, 17 and Charity Nkwogor all from Okun Local Government Area of  Benue state said Abigail Aliyu whom they call “Chair Lady” took them from their homes in  Benue State in  January this year on the pretext that she was taking them to Lagos to work as sales girls in her drinking spot, but ended up as sex workers in the  brothel located at 26 Bedwell Street,  Calabar. One of the girls,  Felicia, told Vanguard,

“the woman  told me that she has a beer parlour in Lagos and wanted me to work as sales girl there,  but when we got here she gave me  boxer shorts to wear and when I asked her where the drinking parlour is for me to  start working, she said  I should hustle like other girls  by sleeping with men and when I refused she beat me up.”

Man Arrested For Killing His Stepmother's Boyfriend in Calabar, Nigeria

41-year old King Akpanke pictured above, has been arrested by officers of the Cross Rivers state police command for murdering his step-mother’s lover. 

King who was paraded before newsmen at the state police command headquarters in Calabar today February 10th, said he had on several occasions warned the deceased from coming to his late father’s house to have sexual intercourse with his step-mother.

“On that fateful day when we fought, he came to my house around 9 o’clock, he abused me and nobody was there in the house. The house belongs to my late father and I am the third son of my father. I was the only person in the house so when he started abusing me we fought, he brought a stick to hit me but I went inside and brought a knife and stabbed him on the head.

Mother Clings to Moving Vehicle to Rescue Abducted 9 month old Daughter in Calabar

A brave mother, Mrs Priscilla Ekpenyong, on Friday damned the consequences by clinging to a moving vehicle in order to rescue her nine-month-old child, Emmanuella, from the hands of fleeing abductors.

Punch reports that the abductors had  pushed the 23-year-old woman out of the moving vehicle, but she held on to her daughter and was dragged on the tarred road for some distance before the kidnapping was aborted by security operatives. The incident happened by the Eburutu Army Barracks along the busy Murtala Mohammed Highway in Calabar, the Cross River State capital.

Kidnappers Dump 4 Year Old Victim on Calabar Street

Solomon Nse Udo Akpan, the 4year old child who was kidnapped at Atekong Street Big Qua on the 17th March, 2014 in Calabar was yesterday, Sunday dumped at 15 King street, 500 meters away from Atekong at about 9pm by his abductors.

Neighbors took the child to Akim police station after which the parents were contacted. The child was handed over to the family at 11:49pm last night and was seen very happy and playing with his other siblings when they got to their Asi Abang home at Big Qua. 

Master Solomon appeared to be in good health when he was sighted at Akim police station. Eye witnesses told our reporter that a cab dropped him and drove off.

Master Solomon was abducted by members of a gang which is said to specialize in kidnapping children of kindergarten and nursery school age in Calabar. 

Mast Collapses in Calabar, Kills Two

Two persons, an old man, Adindu Fynecountry and an eleven year old girl, Laurencia John Asuquo were on Wednesday evening killed in Odukpani, the outskirts of Calabar when a telecommunications mast collapsed following a rain storm that swept through the area.

A resident of the area, Mr. Asuquo Okon a staff of Cross River state Water Board said the incident happened at about 6pm when the wind storm which preceded a down pour pulled down economic trees including the mast.

“The mast fell on the roof of some houses and shops, and when we rushed out to see what had happened we saw a little girl who had gone to a nearby shop to buy some items before he was crushed by the fallen mast and another old man also under the fallen mast”

Mr Okon who said the mast was erected by Globacom, a Lagos based telecommunications company said apart from those killed many others were wounded by the fallen mast. “We gathered all the victims, both the dead and wounded to the General Hospital Calabar while those injured victims to the General hospital in Calabar.”

Four Year Old Boy Kidnapped In Calabar

A 4-year old boy, Effiong Edet has been abducted at the Ekorinim axis of Calabar, the Cross River State Capital by the hoodlums who raided the community in an Audi car with a concealed car registration number.

The kidnapers struck at about 8:30 pm on Wednesday while the local vigilante members, majority of whom are football lovers were preoccupied with watching the Chelsea match against Turkish football club, Galataxary in the on-going European league.

The gang which is said to specialise in kidnapping children of kindergarten and nursery school age, stormed Ikot Onim for a victim and on arrival at the community drove to Mr. Edet’s compound, where they sighted the boy and his friends playing around while his mother was selling fried yam.

Mother Burns 11-Yr-Old Daughter’s Buttocks With Hot Knife

A middle  aged woman, Ene Edem Okon, has been arrested by the police  for allegedly  inflicting bodily harm and tying her 11-year-old daughter, Queeneth Ene Edem, hands and legs  for being wayward. She was arrested when Queeneth appeared in her school, Government Primary School, Akim, with multiple wounds on her chest, stomach and buttocks prompting the school authorities to report the matter to the police at the Akim Police Station.

The girl  narrated to Sunday Vanguard that, on  February 17, she left  home at  Eneyo village in Akpabuyo  Local Government Area for  the Maternity Junction Settlement, some four kilometers away from  home, to meet her cousin, one Blessing, but did not return home. “We were waiting for Blessing’s friend from whom she wanted to collect something but she delayed in coming and we waited till night and, because we were afraid of  going back home, we slept in an uncompleted building at the Maternity Junction”, she said.

Female Lawyer Tortures Househelp, Inflicts Him With Wounds

A Female legal practitioner, Barrister Florence Ujinka who is married to a medical doctor, Marcel Ujinka is being investigated by the police in Calabar, the Cross River State capital for allegedly using a disused car fan belt to inflict bodily harm on her house help, Chidera Asonye Nathaniel.

The legal practitioner and her husband who reside at Parliamentary Extension by Exceltech Filling Station Calabar are said to have brought the 13 years old Chidera from Anambra State to Calabar in 2012 to serve as their house help but the lady has since been subjecting the boy to torture and inhuman treatment.

A report by a Child Rights Group in Calabar, Basic Rights Counsel Initiative to the police that led to her investigation stated “Mrs Florence Ujinka has been subjecting Chidera to inhuman and degrading treatment by torturing him with an automobile fan belt and in the process inflicting him with severe wounds on his body”.

Woman Arrested in Calabar For Binding Own Daughter Hands And Legs

A Middle aged woman, Ene Edem Okon has been arrested by the police in for inflicting bodily harm and binding her eleven year old daughter, Queenette Ene Edem hands and legs for being wayward.

She was arrested when the Queenette appeared in her school, Government Primary School, Akim with multiple wounds on her chest, stomach and buttocks prompting the school authorities to report the matter to the police at the Akim Police Station.

Queenette narrated to CrossRiverWatch that on 17th February, she left their home at Eneyo village in Akpabuyo Local Government Area to the Maternity Junction Settlement some four kilometers away from home to meet her cousin, one Blessing but did not come back to the house. “We were waiting for Blessing’s friend from whom she wanted to collect something but she delayed in coming and we waited till night and because we were afraid of going back home we slept in an uncompleted building at the Maternity Junction” she said.

Man Impregnates His Sister In Calabar, Nigeria

A twenty-four-year-old man, Ndifreke Uko has allegedly impregnated his younger sister, Otobong Uko. According to SunNews, the incident occurred at Ikang Etta Street in Calabar Municipality of Cross River State, where residents are still shocked as to what may have led the duo to engage in such sacrilegious act.

Narrating her ordeal to Sunday Sun, Otobong said: 

“My brother has been having regular sex with me until I suddenly realized what the whole thing was all about. And when I noticed it, I told my father, but he advised me not to make it public, until three months after I realized that I had missed my period.”

Fun, Fanfare as Calabar begins 2013 Festival

Calabar, the Cross River State capital, went into party mode Saturday, November 30, as the 2013 Calabar Festival flagged off with "Calabar Beckons", a variety event featuring comedy, dance, music, and the ceremonial lighting of West Africa's largest Christmas tree, at Millennium Park in Calabar.

 The occasion was graced by the creme of Cross Riverian and Nigerian society, headlined by the State Governor, Senator Liyel Imoke CON, and the Federal Minister for Tourism, High Chief Edem Duke, in his own right one of the initial drivers of a movement that is now the biggest multi-dimensional culture and lifestyle event in West Africa. Also in attendance at the Festival opening event were some of Nollywood's fairest and finest, among them our very own Kate Henshaw, Rita Dominic and Gideon Okeke (known from his role in the M-Net series Tinsel, and as the host of The Money Drop, also on M-Net).

500 Sea Pirates Camped In Bakassi Peninsula – Governor Godswill Akpabio

No fewer than five hundred sea pirates are currently enjoying their illegal camping in the ceded part of the Bakassi peninsula.

Governor Godswill Akpabio stated this in Uyo when the Chief of Training and Operations at the Defence Headquarters, Abuja, Major-General Peter Isang paid a courtesy visit in his office.

The governor tasked the nation’s military organization to rise to the challenge of contending the activities of sea pirates at Bakassi Peninsula bordering Nigeria and Cameroon.

Residents of Calabar Chase Pick Pocket Into Canal

There was a long traffic snarl as a huge crowd gathered along Atekong by Murtala Mohammed expressway junction in Calabar to watch a suspected pick pocket who jumped into the big drainage at the junction following a hot chase by residents after stealing from a passenger who was in the same public taxi with him. It's gathered from eye witness that the unidentified thief boarded the same taxi with an unsuspecting passenger who just withdrew money from a bank.

After successfully robbing his co-passenger, he was said to have jumped out of the moving taxi and attempted to run “but was accosted by residents who gave him a hot chase, caught him and unleash very serious beating on him”.

Militants Attack Fishing Community in Calabar, Nigeria

Militants in two speed boats (Monday) stormed Esuk Atu, a fishing community in Calabar and caused mayhem by killing a fisherman and burning the operations vehicle of the Civil Defense Corps.

The militants who stormed the place at about 8am in two speed boats shot sporadically at everyone on sight and a fisherman, Ikot Ufot from Akwa Ibom State who was working on his net at the beach was hit in the head and died shortly at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital where he was rushed to.

Mr. Asuquo, an operations officer with the Marine Unit of the Cross River State Anti-Deforestation Committee told CrossRiverWatch that his men intercepted a large wooden boat on Sunday night laden with 550 logs of timber on its way to Akwa Ibom State and had to confiscate the boat and wood.

Police Barricade Unical Gate, Stop ASUU Strike Protest in Calabar

Hundreds of heavily armed police drafted from formations around Calabar, the Cross River State capital on Monday barricaded the main gate and other entrances to the University of Calabar to stop members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU from carrying out a planned city walk.

The police, led by an Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of operations, , Nnange Itam took over the entrances to the University of Calabar as early as 6am to carry out what they called order from above. (More Pics after cut).

[Photos] Obudu Ranch Mudslide Traps Over 15 Persons

A mudslide occurred at the foot of Obudu Mountain Resort which is preparing to host the world mountain race community in few weeks’ time.

Over 15 persons are said to still be trapped in the mud while excavators provided by the Central China Engineering and Construction Company, CCECC, are trying the clear the mud to create an alternative route.

A timber trader and eyewitness of the incident, Mr. Augustine Akomaye told CrossRiverWatch that “A group of tourists from the Federal Capital who were caught in the mudslide could no longer go up the mountain and were scared of using the cable car. They had to be airlifted by Air Force helicopter to the heights.

Gov. Imoke Unveils 2013 Carnival Calabar Theme, Says It Represent Nigeria’s 2nd Biggest Brand

Expectedly like a yearly ritual, the 2013 Carnival Calabar Theme has been unveiled to kick off the 2013 Carnival Program.

The theme which is ‘Ain’t No Stopping Us’ was unveiled by the Cross River State Governor Senator Liyel Imoke at the main bowl of the Cultural Center Calabar last night.

Speaking during the unveiling, the governor said, Calabar Carnival has come to stay as a brand which is making Cross River State and Nigeria a destination for others to copy.

Imoke said Cross River State is proud of the brand known worldwide, stressing that aside Nollywood, Carnival Calabar is the next brand known internationally from Nigeria.

Innocent Nigerians Are Paying For Our Leaders Sins – Calabar Cleric

Various tragedies occurring across the length and breadth of Nigeria have been attributed to sins committed to by Nation’s leaders.

Chief Imam of the Eastern Naval Command Headquarters, Calabar, Imam Muhammed Zakariyyah made this statement during his weekly Friday sermon.

He said Nigeria needs prayers to stop some of these unforeseen circumstances.

Using the recent plane crash in Lagos and the continuous attacks on innocent citizens by the Boko Haram terrorist sect in the North-Eastern part of the country, the Imam said, “part of what is happening in Nigeria today is as a result of sins committed at various levels by the leaders as well as the followers.

Air Mishap Averted as Arik Flight With Cross River Governor on Board After Failing to Land

Another air mishap was averted when an Arik aircraft that departed Abuja for Calabar had to return to the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja following its inability to land owing to the absence of electricity at the run way of the Margaret Ekpo International Airport.

The aircraft which departed Abuja for Calabar late at night was said to have the Cross River State Governor, Senator Liyel Imoke who was returning to Calabar after three days in Abuja to hold meetings with President Goodluck Jonathan on board.

The aircraft, according to sources at the Airport arrived Calabar and could not land as the lights on the run way were out.

5 NUJ Members Escape Death In Cross River As Union Bus Burn To Ashes

This is not the best moment for members of the Nigerian Union Of Journalists, Cross River state Chapter as five of its members escape death on Saturday while the Union bus was burnt to ashes. The Union led by its Chairman, Comrade Ndoma Akpet, Secretary Nsa Gill and other senior members of the union were on their constitutional duty of monitoring and reporting the local government election when their Union bus caught fire.

Our findings reveal that the NUJ team started their journey from Calabar and went round the major local governments around the Southern Senatorial District before proceeding to the Central part of the state where the Governor and other key players in the elections exercised their franchise.