Irene Ugbo, Public Relations Officer, Cross River State Police Command, has confirmed to www.calitown.com that the police in Calabar, this afternoon, rescued two men and a woman, suspected to have been in the final stages of an attempt to kidnap an undisclosed person around the old Parliamentary village, from being lynched by a mob in…
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Tony Eyang, Chairman, University of Calabar, Unical, chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, says most of the universities in Ghana that Nigerians hurriedly send their children to can only compete with secondary schools in Nigeria and not any of the federal or state universities in Nigeria. He maintains too that if successive…
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We can reliably confirm as night fell, late Saturday evening that casualties have been recorded in the renewed communal conflict between the Ediba and Usumutong communities in Abi Local Government Area, Cross River State. Our correspondent on the ground in the area reported via text message that, “…two Usumutong men have been captured and taken…
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Sources on the ground in Abi Local Government Area, Cross River Central, have just informed www.calitown.com that the intractable communal conflict between Ediba and Usumutong communities has erupted again, Saturday afternoon. It was further revealed that the early morning attack on a commercial motorcyclist of Ediba extraction by unknown gunmen, suspected to be from Usumutong,…
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Authorities of the University of Calabar, Unical, have terminated the appointment of Peter Agi, the embattled Bursar of the institution, seemingly putting to rest speculations about Agi’s fate in a bitter and protracted conflict that pitched him against the Vice-Chancellor of Unical, Zana Akpagu and invisible individuals within and outside the institution. The termination of…
A staff of Jambicon, a major distributor for telecommunications giant, MTN, in Calabar, Cross River State, has just informed www.calitown.com that it took four heavily armed men, just under 10 minutes to rob his office of a huge sum of money, this afternoon. “I was within the office premises when the four heavily armed men…
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