Category: Community

“I Escaped Death”, Communal Clash Victim Reveals

September 9, 2014September 9, 2014 Admin 1 Comment

20-year-old Destiny Arukwu of Enusukwe, Ediba in Abi LGA has exclusively told www.calitown.com how he escaped death in the hands of persons he suspects to be from neighbouring Usumutong also in Abi LGA, in circumstances not unrelated with the tension that has been building between both communities. Arukwu said on the fateful Sunday, September 7th,…

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Usumutong/Ediba Close To War Again

September 9, 2014September 10, 2014 Admin 6 Comments

While consistent efforts on the part of government and well meaning indigenes of Cross River State have been invested in ensuring that the intractable differences between the Bahumono communities of Usumutong and Ediba in Abi LGA do not give birth to a full blown communal clash, www.calitown.com can reveal that unless something is urgently done…

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PHOTO SPEAK!

September 5, 2014 Admin No Comments

Extensive portions of the Calabar-Itu Highway remained under water as heavy rains have helped the Calabar River overflow its banks leaving commuters stranded.

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EDITORIAL: CR, A Governor And 2015

August 31, 2014August 31, 2014 Admin No Comments

Political institutions and people, the world over, often define for themselves a set of rules and conventions that govern not just their political engagements but the entire political process which should ideally culminate in the election of candidates for a specified term in office. In the engagements that belie this process, where people are not…

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CR 2015: PDP Source Carpets Legor Idagbo

August 29, 2014August 29, 2014 Admin 9 Comments

A top PDP source in Cross River state in the wee hours of Friday, called to inform www.calitown.com that “those who are assuring the state Commissioner for Works, Legor Idagbo that he will become governor of this state are about to give him the kind of laughable assurance his kinsmen, Kanu Agabi and Walter Eneji…

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Prof Carpets Nigeria’s Role In Bakassi’s Ceding

August 27, 2014 Admin No Comments

International lawyer and expert on the Law of Treaties, Professor Akin Oyebode has carpeted the role Nigeria played in ceding the contentious Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon. Oyebode says the country demonstrated “incompetence” in putting together a team of lawyers with no experts in international treaties who went ahead to “throw away $300 million in legal…

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