Unless something is done and urgently too, organisers of the recent Carnival Calabar Queen, CCQ, beauty competition may have serious problems on their hands because of one medical doctor and three nurses, calitown.com can reveal. The doctor and nurses, who formed the medical team used throughout the days leading up to the competition and after,…
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This is the sour part of the 2013 Carnival Calabar. The soldiers stationed opposite the Water Board gate on Marian road had a field day assaulting civilians. In the picture, one of such hapless civilians is ordered to frog jump while the soldier standing by him with the cane, uses it repeatedly on him. Are…
Eyes the world over are beamed on Calabar, the Cross River State capital as the 2013 Carnival Calabar, takes centre stage today. The event, considered the biggest street party in all of Africa, will see the carnival branded bands; Seagull, Masta Blasta, Passion 4, Freedom and Bayside, thrill spectators from the Eleven Eleven roundabout through…
“I must have been just about the tender age of five or six; that phase of youth when the physical world begins to take some form of shape – begins to make some sort of sense – begins to unfurl its compelling and overwhelming complex strata like a flower in the sun, to the comprehension of highly inquisitive, receptive, emulative and magnetic little minds such as mine”(Excerpt from Stephen David Eteng’s ‘OKAGBENG AND THE MERMAID’)
‘OKAGBENG AND THE MERMAID’, will be launched this Saturday, the 28th of December, 2013 at the Government Guest House, Ugep, Yakurr LGA.
It will be reviewed by renowned historian and Commissioner in the Cross River State Civil Service Commissioner, Otu Abam Ubi, PhD. When calitown.com spoke with Ubi this morning, seeking his assessment of the work, he responded that, “it is a good literary work, earnestly. Stephen Eteng must be encouraged because he has a wonderful creative gift”.
Eteng, the author, clearly says that the work is his own “contribution to the development of literature in one of Africa’s most vibrant native communities – Yakurr”.
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In perhaps his first public remarks on the perceived pressure being mounted on him to handpick the person who will succeed him as governor in 2015, Cross River State governor, Liyel Imoke, has told the state’s Elders Consultative Forum, while hosting them recently, that “it is not the right kind of politics” for people to…
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