Ekori is less than two hours by road from Calabar, the Cross River State capital. It is unarguably the second major community in Yakurr LGA, after Ugep, her more illustrous brother. Outside subsistence farming, which is a dominant endeavour in Ekori, the community is gradually waking up to a cheerful vibrance brought on by the…
Strange enough, Calabar the Cross River State capital has been without pipe-borne water for three weeks now and counting, www.calitown.com can reveal. the situation is so dire that most residents of the city have resorted to patronizing vendors of water who are currently smiling to the bank. As early as five in the morning and…
While Cross Riverians are yet to come to terms with Sunday’s abduction of Dominic Aqua Edem, the Labour Party’s House of Representatives candidate for Calabar South/ Bakassi and Akpabuyo Federal Constituency by unknown persons, Austine Ibok, CR Labour Party chairman is insisting that “those who have abducted our candidate should understand that you cannot kidnap…
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For most parts of yesterday and into the night, Ekori, a community in Yakurr LGA, Cross River Central, was a theatre of war as groups of youths supporting House of Representatives member, Bassey Eko Ewa, clashed with supporters of former CR Chief of Staff, Alex Egbona, in what one observer describes as “one of the…
It appears those fingered in the close to N200 million suspected diversion of government funds in the CRS Accountant-General’s office are presently talking to law enforcement agents as sources within the office have informed www.calitown.com that “it has been a busy time in the office with the arrests and invitations to the police”. The man…
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While Bassey Edet Otu awaits him at the senatorial polls for the CR Southern Senatorial seat, it appears the PDP candidate for the position, Gershom Bassey, has shot himself in the foot with the arrests all through last week of 23, mostly PDP faithfuls, in circumstances believed to have been tied more to the forthcoming…
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