Stealing of catalytic converters: China-made alternatives offer relief
China-made catalytic converters are increasingly providing relief to automobile owners who have lost theirs to fraudulent mechanics and unscrupulous used car dealers
BAKASSI: UN should organise a plebiscite
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.
BAKASSI: Boundary law places Peninsula in Nigeria
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”.
Those who ceded Bakassi committed crimes against humanity – Paramount ruler
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.
BAKASSI: Peninsula not in 26 districts plebiscite of southern Cameroun
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.
BAKASSI: 1922 – 39 maps had Rio del Rey as eastern end of peninsula
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.
