Residents count losses as river ravages C’River community

By Ike UchechukwuOBUTONG — The tarred federal highway that once knit this historic community in Calabar Municipality together has been erased. In its place yawns a crevice, a raw, widening gash that has swallowed a hospital, car parks, offices, and homes nurtured for decades.Truckloads of boulders hammer into the abyss daily, while engineers hover at the edge with clipboards and worry. But for the residents, the science of soil and rain tells only half the story.Beneath the mud, they