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Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who are mostly fishermen and petty traders in the riverine area of Ikang, Bakassi Local Government Area of Cross River State, have cried out over the continued harassment and victimization by soldiers of the Nigerian Army. The soldiers who were deployed to the coastal region to counter militancy regularly confiscate their goods and brutalized anyone demanding an explanation.  

The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, and the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, have lamented the dearth of sign language experts in the country. Cross

The Commissioner for Women Affairs, Edema Irom, made this revelation on Saturday in Calabar, the state capital.

Cross River recorded 586 cases of gender-based violence between January and October, the Commissioner for Women Affairs, Mrs Edema Irom, said in Calabar on Saturday.

  About 15 years after Nigeria finally ceded Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon, Nigerians left behind in the area have continued to face neglect from the Nigerian government. Their abandonment becomes more apparent during the just-conducted presidential and national assembly elections.   Out of the 70 polling units in the area, voting took place in only about 20 polling units, according to investigations by CrossRiverWatch.