<P> Calabar has three principal landlord kingdoms, namely the Qua Kingdom of Ejagham (Ekoi) / Bantu origin, the Efut and the Efik Kingdoms . The Qua Kingdom has the Ndidem of the Qua nation as the Grand Patriarch, the Efut have the Muri munene as the Grand Patriarch, and the Efik Kingdom patriarch is known as the Obong . The Efik political authority as it concerns the Obong is hinged on a political tripod: Creek Town, made up of Ambo, Cobham and Eyo; Old Town, made up of Obutong; and Duke Town, or Atakpa, made up of Duke / Archibong, Eyamba, Ntiero, Henshaw and Cobham . Each leg of this tripod at one time or the other was ruled by a separate Obong . Within the last 100 years, a gentleman's agreement to merge these three zones into one, with a single titular head as the Obong, and the distribution or opening up of the title to all Efik wards, was reached . Each of the aspirants to the throne is eminently qualified, none no more so than the other . The title of the Obong of Calabar had been held by Nsa Effiom and Ekpo Nsa in the 17th century; these two gentlemen were from the Henshaw ward . Attempts by the Henshaw to have an Obong resulted in a war in 1870 . The Henshaws did not attain this title again until within the last 50 years, when David Henshaw became Obong . Cobham Town, from which Bassey Ekpo Bassey hails, had its first and only Obong recently . All this was made possible because of "the contract". </P> <P> Before the colonial period, Calabar, originally known as Akwa Akpa, was a kingdom with the City of Calabar as the site of government, the Obong of Calabar as the ruler and the Ekpe secret society as the stool on which the Obong of Calabar sat . </P> <P> Calabar people are mainly people from the Greater Calabar district--Calabar South, Calabar Municipality, Akpabuyo, Bakassi, Biase, Odukpani and Akamkpa, but as commonly used in Nigeria, the term "Calabar people" could also refer to the indigenes of Greater Calabar as well as the people of the original South Eastern State of Nigeria who are at present the people of Akwa Ibom State and Cross River State . </P> <P> Calabar is the headquarters of the Eastern Naval Command . The city has a new model school, Nigerian Navy Secondary School, situated in Akpabuyo, about 10 minutes' drive from the airport . This new school complements the existing Nigerian Navy Primary School and Naval Officers Wives Association Primary School, both situated at Ikot Ansa Calabar . </P>

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