Politics, propaganda and the fight over the 76 oil wells
By ETIM ETIM Gov. Bassey Otu of Cross River State arrived Margaret Ekpo Airport, Calabar, from an official trip to Abuja last week and addressed a large crowd of APC…
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Akwa Ibom’s 76 Oil Wells: The distortion in Linus Obogo’s Abiku myth
By AmanamHillary Umo-Udofia Linus Obogo’s article, “Cross River’s 76 Oil Wells and the ‘Abiku’ Paradox,” is undeniably eloquent and steeped in mythic imagery. But when stripped of metaphor and reduced…
76 oil wells: time for Cross River to move on
By ETIM ETIM It’s been 26 years since the legal battle over the ownership of some 76 offshore oils wells arose between Cross River and Akwa Ibom; and despite the…