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 Abducts 3 Year Old Girl, Forces A Stick Into Her Vagina

The residents of Ikang in Bakassi Local Government Area, Cross River State, are yet to recover from shock after one of their daughters; a 3-year-old child, was abducted by a suspected ritual killer, and raped with a stick.

He was caught inflicting wounds on the child at a place not faraway from where a 1-year-old child was found, murdered.

PUNCH reports that on February 28, the child was playing with her mates when she was taken by the unnamed man. In a nearby forest, the man reportedly forced a stick into the child’s vagina, and was discovered by people who went in search of the girl.

After being caught, the man was handed over to the police, while another group hurried the injured child to the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital.

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.

21 Year Old Student Hangs Self After Girlfriend Dumped Him In Cross River

Friends and family members of a 21-year-old student of Maritime Academy Oron, Effiong Otu are at a loss why he committed suicide by hanging himself on a rope in his room on Thursday morning after he was jilted by his girl friend.

Vanguard reports that Ann, Effiong's family member said Effiong was found hanging in his room at Diamond Hill, a few minutes after he collected a rope from neighbours who became suspicious soon after he went inside his room with the rope wondering what he wanted to use it for. His mother Grace Otu, a nurse at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital had just left the house at about 3pm on that fateful day.
Ann said:

The 10th of July was the 10th anniversary of his father’s death in a car accident and afterthe anniversary and everyone had left the house including his mother, he went to a neighbour and borrowed a rope which he took to his room and hung himself.  

The neighbours became suspicious of what he was doing in his room with the rope and decided to rush there but found the door to the room locked and before they could force the door open he had died.” 

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.”

Lady Dies After Jumping Into Aya River in Ogoja, Cross River, Nigeria

 

A lady in her early thirties simply identified as Miss Patience this morning jumped from Abakpa bridge into the Aya River and died before rescuers could bring her out of the river.

Eye witnesses said, a motor cyclist carried her from Igoli and on reaching the Abakpa bridge, she asked to be stopped, while she paid her fare leaving the bike man to look for change her, she then moved closer to the bridge rails and allowed herself fall over. More photos after the jump:

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.

Mob Hacks Suspected Thieves, Sets Car Ablaze

Three suspected criminals, who allegedly specialized in snatching bags from women in Calabar, Cross River State, were on Tuesday hacked with machetes almost to the point of death by residents of the area.

The suspected criminals were trailed by eyewitnesses after they had allegedly succeeded in snatching the bag of an unidentified woman who had just come out from a bank in the area.

The Volkswagen Vento salon car which was allegedly used for the operation was also set ablaze by the angry mob.

Cameroon Annexe Obudu Ranch Resort, 20 Cross River Villages in Boundary Demarcation

Cameroon, Nigeria’s neighbor to the east along with officials from the United Nations is presently carrying out a demarcation of its border with Nigeria and has annexed the Obudu Ranch Resort along with over twenty other Cross River villages.

The team which is currently carrying out the demarcation exercise has no official from the Cross River State Government and has allegedly shifted some of the 1913 Anglo- German beacons and effectively included Obudu, Boki, Ikom and Obanlikwu, home of the famous Obudu Ranch Resort in Cameroon.

A petition by the village head of Danare, Chief K K Mbia and two other community leaders to the Cross River State governor, Senator Liyel Imoke, said the retracing of the border between Nigeria and Cameroon as contained in the Green Tree Agreement signed by Nigeria’s President at the time, General Obasanjo and Mr. Paul Biya of Cameroon is illegally being turned into boundary demarcation.

Bloody Christmas in Lagos, Cross River

It was a bloody Christmas celebration in Lagos and Cross River states as no fewer than nine persons were killed in auto accidents on Tuesday night and on Wednesday morning.

Five people comprising a baby, her mother, two brothers and a driver died on Wednesday in the Lagos State accident, while four youths died in the Cross River accident.

In Lagos, it's learnt that apart from the five people that perished on Christmas day, another lady suffered a fracture after a container, which was on an articulated truck fell on a commercial bus on Alaba Suru Road in the Ajeromi-Ifelodun area of Lagos.

Truck Kills Four, Leave Six Injured in Akamkpa, Cross River, Nigeria

There was pandemonium this along the Calabar-Ikom Highway when a Mack 911 truck with registration number FKJ 505 XC crushed four young boys to dead leaving six others fatally injured at Awi, Akamkpa LGA of Cross River State.

The youths from Mbarakom community were said to be jogging at about 6am this morning in front the Cross River State College of Education when the unfortunate incident occurred. More after the cut:

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.

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.

[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.

Policeman, Two Others Killed as Youths Confront Police in Ogoja

A policeman and two youths have been reportedly killed in Ogoja local government area in the northern part of Cross River State as Ishibori youths confront police over failed attempt to arrest the chief of the area.

According to a source, Mr. Chris Igbaji, who lives in Ishibori, a team of policemen from Calabar went to arrest a youth whose name was given as Tom at the Ndok junction some two kilometers from the Ogoja town but “the police did not see the young man and they decided to take the chief of the area into custody so that the Ndok community would produce the boy but the youths mobilized to stop the arrest of their chief and this led to confrontation and the police shot one of the youths to death.”

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.