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Obono-Obla: “I Feel Betrayed”

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Suspended chairman of recently scrapped Special Presidential Panel for the Recovery of Public Property (SPIP), Okoi Obono-Obla, has expressed disappointment that the government he served with his utmost ability allegedly betrayed him. In a Facebook post on Saturday, he described his current ordeal as a calculated ploy by some powerful forces close to the government…

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National Assembly Committee Visit Shows Calabar/Itu/Ikot Ekpene Road Contract Is A Lie!

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While several commuters using the Calabar/Itu/Ikot Ekpene road, linking Cross River/Akwa Ibom states to large parts of Nigeria, continue to endure torrid times on this stretch of road, unknown to them, information to the effect that the purported award of contract to Julius Berger for the rehabilitation of the road last year is a half…

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“There Must Be Punishment”, House Of Assembly Member Insists!

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Member representing Boki II State Constituency in the Cross River State House of Assembly, Hilary Bisong has insisted that “there must be punishment” for all those who had a hand in the killing of one Joseph Bankong in Okundi, Boki LGA, Cross River Central, an act which triggered a deadly stream of attacks that left…

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Ayade Weilds Big Stick, Lashes Ekureku Ward II PDP Stakeholders

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Cross River State governor, Ben Ayade, angered by the submissions made by stakeholders of the People Democratic Party, PDP, in Ekureku I I council Ward, Abi Local Govetnment Area, lashed out at the stakeholders and directed that they be walked out of the venue of his statewide engagement with stakeholders of the party. The stakeholders…

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Bangladeshi Envoy Meets CALCCIMA, Seeks Economic Relations

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The Bangladeshi High Commissioner to Nigeria, Md Shameem Ahsan, has informed that his visit to Cross River State seeks to explore ways of extending bilateral commercial and economic relations between Nigeria and Bangladesh as well as inform the business community in Cross River state of the enormous opportunities for trade and commercial relations between the…

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Two Former Aides In Gov. Ayàde’s Soup Over Diverted N2 Million Gift!

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We have been reliably informed by Government House sources that two former aides of the Cross River State governor, Ben Ayade, have incurred the wrath of the governor, over a paltry N2 million gift from the governor that the two aides intercepted and shared between them. We gathered that Ayade, impressed by the published literary…

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