By Obeten Effiom On the very busy Calabar/Ikom Highway, tragedy struck last Friday, near the Ugep Divisional Office of the Cross River State Fire Service as a lorry, commuting to Calabar, ran into a motorbike, killing the rider on the spot and leaving the female occupant of the bike in bad shape. The accident which…
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Owners of Okipp Limited, a subsidiary of the Negris Group, have through their President, Musa Ojeifo, revealed that in the next couple of months, the company will generate more than 10, 000 jobs in Cross River State as part of her commitment to ensuring that the state enjoys maximal benefits from the natural resources she…
Perhaps to demonstrate the seriousness it attaches to the drive by the Cross River State government to shore up her internally generated revenue, the CRS Internal Revenue Service, for a greater part of today, completely shut down the Ika Ika Oqua market in Calabar Municipality, barring traders from carrying out any form of business activity,…
In a bid to return to Nigeria’s House of Representatives for the third time, www.calitown.com sources in Ugep, Yakurr LGA, Cross River Central, have informed that Bassey Eko Ewa, who represents Yakurr/Abi Federal Constituency in the House, is laying claims to the fact that CRS governor, Liyel Imoke, has given him the go-ahead to run…
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Investigations by www.calitown.com just revealed that most secondary schools in Cross River State are currently milking students and their parents dry, charging an illegal fee and making it compulsory on students writing the ongoing Junior Secodary School Certificate Examination. With a minimum charge of N500 (five hundred naira) per subject, the students are told by…