Mid Monday morning, the Police in Calabar, Cross River State, acting on a tip-off, smashed a notorious five man robbery gang that had successfully robbed a wine retailer and was making away with their loot when the Police responded and engaged the robbers in a gun battle. The ensuing gun battle left three of the…
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No fewer than 10 persons, www.calitown.com has been informed, have undergone or are undergoing treatment at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, UCTH, for what reliable medical sources in UCTH say is the deadly meningitis disease, an inflammation of the meninges, the three membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord. While hospital sources have…
Senior Special Assistant to Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Prosecutions, Okoi Obono-Obla has in a statement published not too long ago on the June 29, 2017 cult related violence in his native Ugep, Yakurr Local Government Area, Cross River Central, named 20 individuals as being behind the violence that unfortunately led to the killing of…
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Reprieve may be coming the way of embattled “Mama Bakassi”, Florence Ita-Giwa, and soft landing gained in the aftermath of her widely reported spat with Cross River State governor, Ben Ayade, over the distribution of relief materials meant for the Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, of Bakassi origin. A top aide to Ayade informed www.calitown.com that…
Self-styled Mama Bakassi, Florence Ita-Giwa has been fingered by a group, Coalition of Bakassi Indigenes, as being behind a serial scheme which has robbed Bakassi indigenes of tons of relief materials sent in by the Federal Government to cushion the deplorable consequences that have come with Nigeria’s ceding of the oil rich peninsula to neighbouring…
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In what can rightly be described as a mad evening in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, officers and men of the Nigerian Navy and the Police, for several hours, engaged each other in a gun battle that shook the state capital to her bones, www.calitown.com can authoritatively reveal. Trouble is believed to have started…
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