How time flies. In our time you knew your peer, even if by reputation, not only in your school but in other schools. Secondary schools were few as were students. We had inter school sports, debates and quiz competitions and these attracted huge audiences and spectators from the public as these events were the major…
A Cross River State High Court sitting in Calabar and presided over by Justice Elais O. Abua, has restrained the Igbo community in the state from organising and holding her Cultural Day in Calabar. In an ex-parte motion brought before the court, in Suit No. HC/MSC. 207/2022, by Agu Onyekachi, Raymond Atulomah and David Ihesiulo…
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The House of Representatives has asked the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to halt the implementation of the new cash withdrawal policy slated for January 9, 2023 pending compliance with the provisions of the Act establishing the bank. The House also summoned CBN Governor Godwin Emiefele in accordance with the provisions of the Central Bank…
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Rose Bassey, former Cross River State Accountant General, was yesterday kidnapped by yet to be identified persons on the Iwuru to Uyanga stretch of the Ikom/Calabar highway, gradually becoming notorious for very recent kidnappings for ransom. Family sources who spoke with www.calitown.com revealed that she was in company of her driver and mechanic, between the…
…Operators shut motor parks early over development…Managers “… we’ve deployed Anti Kidnapping tactical unit till normalcy return…” -PPRO There is trepidation among commuters plying the Calabar-Ikom highway following last weekend’s deadly attack on Omaga Odo, a former Cross River State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB boss, along the now notorious Uyanga axis of the road…
A paper delivered on the occasion of the 2022 AGM/Edwin Eja Memorial Lecture, Awards /Foundation laying for the image house & 50th Anniversary of the Nigeria Institute Of Public Relations, Cross River State. Introduction: The Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) hitherto known as the Public Relations Association of Nigeria (until it was renamed in…
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