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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More than 50 concerned Cross River State pensioners under the aegis of the Nigerian Union of Pensioners, have written to state governor, Ben Ayade, warning that they will not be part of any attempt by government to make part payment of gratuities to retirees, owed gratuities since 2013, www.calitown.com can report. In a letter dated…
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John Owan Enoh, the senator representing Cross River Central Senatorial district has publicly told his supporters that even though his local government area, Etung, has the second highest number of political appointees in the Ben Ayade administration, he has capacity and will floor all of them politically, irrespective of whatever political tactics may be employed…
Voices for Compliance and Legality, VOCAL, an anti-corruption project of the Catholic Caritas Foundation, in collaboration with the Calabar Centre for Justice and Peace Initiative, says it wants anti-corruption clubs formed in primary and secondary schools in Cross River State as a positive measure to help change the believe in an evolving generation that corruption…
Sarah Isioma Agi, wife of Peter Agi, former Bursar of the University of Calabar escaped death, late yesterday evening, when the Toyota Hilander she was driving in, was sprayed with bullets, inside high brow State Housing Estate, Calabar, www.calitown.com, can reveal. Informed sources say Isioma had just been escorted to the car by the relative…