The Supreme Court of Nigeria has in a unanimous judgement today, December 9, 2016, affirmed Ben Ayade as the governor of Cross River State. His affirmation follows a long and contentious legal battle at the instance of Joe Agi, SAN, who had approached the court, praying that Ayade be removed as governor, for age descrepancies…
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We can reliably confirm as night fell, late Saturday evening that casualties have been recorded in the renewed communal conflict between the Ediba and Usumutong communities in Abi Local Government Area, Cross River State. Our correspondent on the ground in the area reported via text message that, “…two Usumutong men have been captured and taken…
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Sources on the ground in Abi Local Government Area, Cross River Central, have just informed www.calitown.com that the intractable communal conflict between Ediba and Usumutong communities has erupted again, Saturday afternoon. It was further revealed that the early morning attack on a commercial motorcyclist of Ediba extraction by unknown gunmen, suspected to be from Usumutong,…
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A young man in his thirties was late Tuesday night arrested by a police patrol team, after a distress call was put out, as a group of men suspected to be armed robbers terrorized residents of a section of Ekorim I, a high brow area in Calabar Municipality. The suspects are believed to have commenced…
Dr Nya Asuquo, a former House of Representatives member as well as former National Secretary of the defunct ANPP, is the ambassadorial-nominee from Cross River State according to a list sent to Nigeria’s Senate by President Muhammadu Buhari. More details shortly…
Family sources have confirmed to www.calitown.com that the police officer who was shot to death by suspected cultists around the Goldie/Mount Zion NNPC filling station has been identified as one Ibor Eteng Ewut, from Ijom, Ugep, Yakurr LGA. Distraught family members say Ewut, a sergeant attached to the Mbukpa Police station was shot in the…
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