Top All Progressive Congress, APC, sources in Abuja, the nation’s capital, informed www.calitown.com early today that a major condition appears to have been given Cross River State governor, Ben Ayade, to fulfill, pursuant to what is expected to be his switch from the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, as political momentum gains speed. The condition is…
Calabar based legal practitioner, Utum Eteng, who sought and obtained an interim injunction from the High Court in Cross River State, barring the state governor, Ben Ayade, from constituting caretaker committees for the recently dissolved local government councils in the state, is insisting that the state governor and his supporters, “cannot say there is no…
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Martin Orim, Chief of Staff to Cross River State governor, Ben Ayade, late Friday evening, condemned in strong terms the communal clash between the Ukpe and Kutia communities in Obudu Local Government Area, Cross River North, describing the conflict “as an unfortunate situation, driven more by hatred than common sense”. He also was at a…
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On the heels of the recent resignation from office of Effiom Trombone, Cross River State chairman of the Performing Musicians Association of Nigeria, PMAN, the National Executive Council of the association, in a letter dated January 12, 2017 and signed by Perry Okafor, National President and Kenny A. George, Secretary General, has confirmed the appointment…
Okoi Obono-Obla, Senior Special Assistant to Nigeria’s President on Prosecutions, has stirred the nest with a bold post on his Facebook wall early today, accusing the Cross River State Commissioner for Environment, Mike Eraye, of trying to bribe him with a two million naira per month contract to clean up drainages in Calabar South Local…
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Yesterday, January 2, 2017, large parts of Calabar, the Cross River State capital, stood still for hours as the TIN-KORI-KOR masquerade carnival hit the streets. See a small selection of pictures from the massive event that www.calitown.com has put together.