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2015 Governorship Race In CRS And The Peace Of The Graveyard

September 26, 2014 Admin No Comments

Not a few Cross Riverians have lamented the apparent lack of activity, almost apathy that is surprisingly becoming the strange signature tune of Cross River state in the run up to the 2015 election in our state. Could it be that we are no longer interested in politics and it’s outcomes? Of course not. No…

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Vatican Arrests Defrocked Former Archbishop On Paedophilia Charges

September 24, 2014 Admin No Comments

The Vatican yesterday, Tuesday, September 24th, 2014, arrested a former archbishop accused of paying for sex with children while he was a papal ambassador in the Dominican Republic, the first-ever arrest inside the city state on charges of paedophilia. Jozef Wesolowski, from Poland, who was defrocked by a Vatican tribunal in June, has been placed…

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CR Education Commissioner Wants NUT To Shelve Strike

September 23, 2014 Admin No Comments

Offiong E. Offiong, Cross River state Education Commissioner, has appealed to the state branch of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, to suspend its strike action and allow academic activities to commence in all public primary and secondary schools across the State. While addressing journalists in his office, Offiong expressed surprise at NUT’s action, stating…

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AquaPrime Water Enters Calabar Market!

September 23, 2014 Admin No Comments

The quality of water packaging and vending in Calabar has been taken several notches up with the arrival of AquaPrime Water in the Cross River state market, www.calitown.com can reveal. Produced from a recently opened state of the art factory at Plot 3, Block 2, Clement Ebri Drive in the high brow State Housing Estate,…

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Activist Challenges CR Bond Law In Court

September 22, 2014 Admin 1 Comment

In an originating summons, pursuant to the order rule of the Cross River State High Court, Civil Procedures Rule, 2008, human rights activist, Okoi Obono-Obla, www.calitown.com can report, is suing the Cross River State Government, Attorney-General, CRS as well as the Speaker of the CRS House of Assembly, seeking to determine in the suit whether…

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Priests Angle For Vacant Catholic Bishop Of Ogoja Position

September 19, 2014 Admin No Comments

This weekend’s Catholic ceremony in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state, which will officially see John Ebebe Ayah, installed as the Bishop of the Uyo Catholic diocese, may be serving as a sounding bell for the commencement of subtle moves by an austere list of priests in Ayah’s native Ogoja Catholic diocese, to take over from Ayah…

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