Category: Breaking News

Ricketts, Former CR Info Boss Sworn In As NPA Board Chair

May 21, 2020 Admin 1 Comment

Former Cross River State Information Commissioner, Akin Ricketts has just been sworn in as the Board Chairman of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA. The just-concluded swearing-in which took place at the Minister’s Conference Hall, Ministry of Transport, Abuja, was presided over by Transport Minister, Rotimi Amaechi, who at the occasion charged Ricketts and his nine-man…

Ayade’s Commissioner Speaks Up…”I Have No 2023 Governorship Ambition”

May 11, 2020 Admin 1 Comment

Just days after he was roundly criticised in the media for supposedly abandoning his work as Cross River State Commissioner of Finance and concentrating on a perceived 2023 gubernatorial ambition, Asuquo Ekpenyong, CRS Finance Commissioner, has today in Calabar declared to journalists during a press conference that he has no 2023 gubernatorial ambition. While critics…

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Truck Kills Six, Injures Many In Abi, Yakurr

May 1, 2020 Admin No Comments

A 40-tonne truck conveying several cartons of beer from Enugu to Calabar, this evening killed six persons and left several others in critical condition on the long stretch of road between Abaomege, Ebonyi State, through Itigidi, Abi LGA and fatally terminating in Ugep, Yakurr LGA, Cross River State, www.calitown.com can reveal. Investigations revealed that the…

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Did Betta Edu, Cross River State Health Commissioner Lie?

April 16, 2020 Admin No Comments

Three years ago, on February 11, 2017, Betta Edu, (at that time the Director-General, Primary Health Care Development Agency, PHCDA) was my radio guest on #ThePublicView on HIT 95.9 FM, Calabar. As the interaction wore on, the versatile answers she provided to the questions I asked her on the live radio programme were outrightly commendable….

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COVID-19: De Norsemen Kclub Makes Donation To Elderly Peoples Home In Calabar

April 10, 2020 Admin No Comments

As show of support to the aged and elderly, believed to be very vulnerable to the COVID-19 virus, members of De Norsemen Kclub of Nigeria International, DNKI, Cross River State chapter, this afternoon in Calabar, presented packs of hand washing liquid, hand wipes, special organization crested washable and reusable face masks produced exclusively by the…

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Detained Former Presidential Aide, Obono-Obla Regains Freedom

April 8, 2020 Admin No Comments

Former chairman of the now scrapped Special Investigation Panel on Recovery of Public Property, SPIP, Okoi Obono-Obla, www.calitown.com can reveal, has been released on bail from the custody of the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, ICPC. Legal team member, First B. Isa, informed us over the phone that “he was released two hours ago after perfecting…

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