The Ofutop community in Ikom Local Government Area is happy that Nigeria’s Supreme Court revalidated the mandate given to the Cross River State governor, Ben Ayade, to govern the state. At a civic reception held in honour of Ofutop sons and daughters in the Ben Ayade administration, Patrick E. Eyam, National President, Ekpokpa Development Association,…
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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…
On the heels of his recent distribution of motorcycles to the All Progressives Congress, APC, party chairmen in Cross River’s Northern Senatorial district, former CR gubernatorial aspirant Goddy Jedy-Agba, is set to distribute motorcycles to all Chapter & Ward Chairmen of the APC in CR’s Central Senatorial district. The ceremony, as the release indicates, will…
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Voices for Compliance and Legality, VOCAL, an initiative of the Catholic Caritas Foundation that seeks to support the anti-corruption fight in Nigeria, has been launched in Calabar, Cross River State. At the project launch, performed by the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Calabar Diocese of the church, Archbishop Joseph Ekuwem, Nigerians were enjoined to work at…
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Winners, Mr. & Ms. Leboku 2016, Hillary Benson and Obia Essien, savour a pleasurable moment, acknowledging cheers from an adoring crowd of onlookers as they parade through the streets of Ugep, Yakurr LGA, Cross River State, as their reign kicked off. Leboku is the biggest traditional festival in CRS. We at www.calitown.com wish them a…
The suspected killing of one Omini Eteng Efoli, a father of two and corporal in the Nigerian Army, this past Saturday, May 28, 2016, by persons suspected to be from one of the warring communities in Yakurr Local government Area of Cross River State is believed to be at the centre of renewed hostilities between…
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