SHE simply gave her name as Madam Jane. She was seen struggling to harvest her cassava prematurely in the pool of water that almost got to her knee level in one of the communities in Joinkrama, JK, Ahoada West local government area of Rivers state.

THE Nigerian legal team accepted Articles 1-17 of the Anglo-German Agreement of March 11, 1913, but rejected Article 20, which purportedly gave Bakassi to Cameroon. Nigeria and Cameroon even bound themselves before the court, to accept Articles 18-20 of the said Agreement, but neglected to bind themselves by Article 21, which sends the boundary left from the mouth of the Akwa Yafe River, thence to Rio del Rey River and the sea.

THE BOUNDARY LAW No. 126 of 1954. Let us return briefly to the Boundary law No. 126 of 1954. That law referred to the Southern Boundary of Eastern Nigeria as the “Sea”.

The Etinyin of Bakassi, Dr. Etim Okon Edet, is not only the paramount ruler of Bakassi but also chairman of the Cross River State Council of Chiefs.

THE Milner/Simone Declaration which showed the partition of Cameroon between Britain and France was not the work of the League. The British and French powers partitioned Cameroons to their satisfaction before they presented it to the League for the Mandate Signature.

PROFESSOR J.C. Anene confirms in his book, International Boundaries of Nigeria, that this portion of the boundary from the sea, at Bakassi, to the Cross River “Rapids”, had been settled by 1913, and were not nullified by the 1913 Agreements: “In the final settlement, the “rapids” of the provisional boundary became the thalweg of the Cross River at the bend of the river about two and a half miles upstream from Obokun.

Nigeria is just two years away from becoming a 100years post amalgamation.Yet, when the United States of America, USA, celebrated her second centenary in 1976, the escapist wisdom dominant in

From one of the richest and most promising 50 countries in the late1960s and early 1970s, Nigeria is today among the 20 countries in the world with the widest gap between the rich and the poor.

IN just two years, it will be 100 years since Nigeria was created as a single amalgamated political entity by the British colonial adventurers.

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