As recognition for reporting Cross River State news and views over time, online news portal, www.calitown.com will tomorrow, Thursday, May 25, 2017, be honoured with the prestigious Legacy Award for what the organisers of the awards, Profiles and Biographies, described as our “… strategic contributions to the development of Cross River State and the nation…
Calabar is presently grinding to a halt as the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN and tax agents of the Cross River State Government remain daggers drawn over the state government insistence that all tankers lifting products from any of the tank farms in Calabar must pay a mandatory fee of N15, 000 per…
Catholic Caritas Foundation of Nigeria in collaboration with the Calabar Centre for Justice and Peace Initiative today, Tuesday, May 23, 2017, began a two-day training workshop on whistle blowing for public officials in the Due Process office in Calabar as well as for one procurement officer each, drawn from the 18 local government areas of…
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A visible attempt by the Cross River State Government to introduce a new state logo as part of activities to mark the state’s 50th anniversary this month has been met with a groundswell of stiff opposition, www.calitown.com can reveal. The logo, believed to have been put together by PR guru, Charles Otudor, which graphically shows…
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The very popular opinion is that Nigeria’s greatest challenge is corruption and that when it is effectively checked the nation’s development will progress more rapidly. Indeed the current APC led federal government of President Mohamadu Buhari (PMB) anchored its “change” campaign on three thematic areas namely – corruption, security and the economy. In fact for…
Mike Achu, Chairman, Cross River State Consumer Protection Committee, has informed www.calitown.com that his committee has intercepted a Chinese syndicate in Calabar, specializing in the re-bagging of imported substandard Chinese cement into Unicem and Dangote cement bags and putting same into the market for unsuspecting buyers. The cement he further disclosed is brought into Calabar…
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