The Police Command in Cross River has arrested a couple for allegedly trafficking their two-year old first son to an agent in Port Harcourt in exchange for money. The Commissioner of Police, Hafiz Inuwa, who presented the suspects to journalists on Tuesday in Calabar, said the couple was arrested on July 23 in Calabar after…
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Former Cross River State governor and presidential aspirant, Donald Duke, has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, opting instead to pitch tent with the Social Democratic Party, SDP, www.calitown.com can report. Duke was at the party’s national secretariat Abuja, just minutes ago to pledge allegiance to the national leadership of the party. It is also…
Jerome Egbe, the Cross River University of Technology, CRUTECH, Engineering lecturer who was kidnapped in Calabar, days ago and fortunately released alive by his abductors, has revealed that “God was with me”, throughout the period of his ordeal, and was responsible for his release from those who abducted him. Egbe who spoke exclusively with www.calitown.com,…
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Cross River State All Progressives Congress, APC, gubernatorial aspirant, Eyo Etim Nyong, has thrown pensioners in the state a livewire, with the promise to look into the payment of pension and gratuity, promptly ensuring that senior citizens are paid their entitlements, if elected governor of the state. Nyong who made this disclosure over the weekend,…
Abenmire Adi Williams, in this piece, shares her experience about the “money woman” culture in one of Cross River’s communities, where girls are forcefully married off, even serving as collateral for money borrowed and ‘owned’ when debtor parents are unable to pay the creditor. Fear lives on in Cross River’s Becheve community, Obanliku Local Government…
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Stakeholders and elders of the All Progressives Congress, APC, from the Northern Senatorial district of Cross River State are maintaining that in line with the zoning formula of the party, the 2019 governorship ticket must remain in the North of CR. This resolution, contained in a five point communiqué issued at the end of the…