While followers of Nigerian football sit and bemoan the painful fate of the country’s national football team, after it failed to qualify for the 2015 African Nations Cup in nearby Equatorial Guinea, unknown to most Cross Riverians, there is a cheering bit of news that www.calitown.com can reveal. The only Nigerian official at this year’s…
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The Central Senatorial District of Cross River State is one of the senatorial districts of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. There are 107 Senatorial Districts in the country including the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja in the Senate of the National Assembly of Nigeria. The Senate and the House of Representatives constitute the…
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While the All Progressives Congress Presidential rally in Calabar can best be described as a rally that shut down most parts of Calabar South late into Wednesday evening, party sources have just informed www.calitown.com that contrary to word making the rounds in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, “at no time before, during and after…
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The Cross River State University of Technology branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has just adopted a “No Pay, No Work” motion, withdrawing their services from the institution with the rider that their services will only resume when the last coin owed them from their December 2014 salary is paid, www.calitown.com can…
While the Labour Party in Cross River State says it is a “credible alternative” in the face of the political antics of the Peoples Democratic Party, www.calitown.com can report that a major crisis is brewing in the party as some members of the State Working Committee, SWC, this afternoon were daggers drawn with the State…
2.4 Billion Naira is a lot of money by any standards. This is the exact amount of money the Cross River State government obtained from First Bank of Nigeria PLC as a loan in 2012 for the Calabar Media City Special Purpose Vehicle. While the Cross River State House of Assembly authorized government to obtain…
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