This is Williams Adora Edohoket, the only child of Margaret Oyoung Adaora, a retired Chief Nursing Officer from Obubra, Cross River State. A couple of years ago, he set out to be a Catholic priest and trained at the famous Bigard Memorial Seminary, Enugu. Along the line, Willie, as he is popularly called, opted out…
A mob in Calabar South yesterday, Tuesday, June 21, 2016, accosted and burnt to death, a young man in his late twenties, suspected to be part of a seven man gang, which may have raided shops from Orok Orok street, through Ekpo Nsa Lane down to parts of Uwanse street, www.calitown.com can report. Eyewitnesses say…
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AUTHOR: Effa Imoh Okim YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 2015 PAGINATION: 136 REVIEWER: DAN AMOR Every traditional setting or what we now know as ethnic nationality in Nigeria had thriving traditions of literature and way of life before it came in contact with European or Arabic influence. Presently, most of these traditions, like the traditional societies that created them, have atrophied or…
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By Obaji Akpet Eighteen girls have scaled through to participate in the 2016 edition of the Cross River Most Beautiful Girl pageant put together by former Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria (MBGN) Queen, Isabella Ayuk. Ayuk says she initiated the pageant to provide a platform for girls in Cross River, her home state, and further…
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As soon as Cross River State governor, Ben Ayade returns to the state, all political appointees in the state will be individually compelled to swear to an oath, denouncing membership of any secret cult or society, in a renewed fight to stamp out cultism in the state, Jude Ngaji, Cross River State Security Adviser has…
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In what can be described as a fallout from the cult-related killings that rocked Calabar, the Cross River State capital in the last two weeks, there are indications that the new Cross River State Commissioner of Police, Jimoh Ozi-Obeh, will bow to pressure and approve a massive re-deployment of police personnel presently serving in the…
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