Nigeria, Feb. 25 -- A communication scholar, Udeme Nana, has warned that Akwa Ibom State may be underestimating what he described as Cross River State's "calculated" strategy in the renewed dispute over offshore oil wells and derivation payments.

Mr Nana, a lecturer at Akwa Ibom State Polytechnic and former spokesperson to the then Governor Victor Attah, made the remarks in a Facebook post amid rising tension between the two neighbouring states.

"The present dispute between the two sister states of Akwa Ibom and Cross River about crude oil wells and payment of derivation is not, with all due respect, correctly understood by Akwa Ibom State," he wrote.

He described Cross River's position as "a reflection of intellectual rigour, very wel...