Category: Breaking News

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…

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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Fmr Assemblyman Declines Ayade’s Appointment, Says Younger Persons Should Benefit

March 25, 2020March 25, 2020 Admin No Comments

Mfawa Ofegobi, a former two-term member of the Cross River State House of Assembly, CRSHA, has in a written press statement available to http://www.calitown.com respectfully declined his recent appointment as Special Assistant, Health (Yakurr) to CRS governor, Ben Ayade. His statement reads: “I have been inundated with series of phone calls and personal visits by friends,…

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C’River Female Senator Dies In London!

March 24, 2020 Admin No Comments

Rose Okoji Oko, the senator representing Cross River Northern Senatorial district in Nigeria’s Senate, we have confirmed, has passed away in a London hospital were she was receiving treatment for cancer, family sources have said. Born on September 27, 1956, she was elected the first female representative from her constituency in June 2011, into the…

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