Executive Secretary of Basic Rights Counsel Initiative, James Ibor, a lawyer, has revealed that Christopher Edet Archibong, a retired police officer and General Overseer of the Family Prayers Network Centre in Calabar, Cross River State, was yesterday, Friday, July 6, 2017, remanded in prison custody for allegedly raping a 9-year old child in Calabar. Ibor…
The ancient town of Ogoja, North of Cross River State, www.calitown.com can report is presently upbeat as the town awaits the episcopal ordination and installation of His Lordship, Most Rev,. Dr. Donatus Edet Akpan as Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Ogoja, later this morning. Our correspondent on the ground who arrived Ogoja late Thursday…
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Senior Special Assistant to Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Prosecutions, Okoi Obono-Obla has in a statement published not too long ago on the June 29, 2017 cult related violence in his native Ugep, Yakurr Local Government Area, Cross River Central, named 20 individuals as being behind the violence that unfortunately led to the killing of…
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Elucate Okora Ekom, the PDP elected Cross River State House of Assembly, CRSHA, member representing Obubra II State Constituency in the Eight Legislative Assembly, has defected to the APC in what political observers suspect may be one in a series of several high profile defections from the PDP in CRS to come as the political…
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While the John Ushie-led Cross River State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress is calling for an all-inclusive strike action in the state, after one that has obstructed the workings of government in the state, it appears that cracks within labour look set to pull the plug off the latest directive billed to commence on…
Organized labour in Cross River State which has in the last couple of days engineered a crippling strike action in the state has revealed that plans have been concluded to, from Wednesday next week, July 5, 2017, commence a total strike action to push the Cross River State government into paying a backlog of salaries…
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