Cross River State governor, Bassey Edet Otu, has given assurances that the 32-day Christmas festival in the state which in the past, served as a major item on the nation’s tourism calendar, has been fully repackaged and restored. Otu made this known at the Millennium Park, Calabar, before flagoff activities signalling the commencement of festival…
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At was twenty five in 1985, I had quit my salaried job at the Nigerian Television Authority, NTA, and started in biz. I was into commodities and it was a paying cruise! I was an essential commodities “Essenco” king! So, I had just bought a yellow Mercedes Benz 200 and I was feeling like a…
We can confirm that an accountant with the Cross River State Ministry of Education, identified to www.calitown.com as Dennis Usibe, was yesterday, Wednesday, November 29, 2023, shot at close range after suspected gunmen trailed him to the Old Government Secretariat in Calabar. Eyewitness accounts maintain that Usibe, who had just made some withdrawals from a…
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These are the 10 hotels in Calabar, Cross River State, who this past Tuesday, benefitted from the initial N10 million (naira) Cross River State Government grant to them, preparatory to the Calabar Carnival: 1. Diamond Crue Hotel, Ishie St, Big Qua Town, Calabar. 2. Pyramid Hotel, Murtala Muhammed Highway, Calabar. 3. Le- Chateau Hotel, MCC…
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Officials of the Cross River State Government have handed out a N10 million grant to ten selected hotels in Calabar, in what is the first phase of a state government grant to hotels in the state to help them give their facilities a facelift before the commencement of Calabar Carnival festivities. Ojoi Ekpenyong, Managing Director…
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Member of Parliament, MP, Peter Akpanke, who represents Obanliku/Bekwarra/Obudu Federal Constituency, in Nigeria’s House of Representatives, has mourned the demise of his constituent, Odey Michael Efenji, an undergraduate of the University of Calabar, killed by suspected armed robbers on November 21, 2023, in Calabar, Cross River State. Akpanke, on a visit to the deceased aged…
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