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CR Election Petition Tribunal Unseats House Of Reps Member

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The Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Calabar, Cross River State, this afternoon declared null and void, the electoral victory of Alex Egbona, elected in the last general election to represent Yakurr/Abi Federal Constituency in Nigeria’s House of Representatives. In the case, EPT/CAL/HR/11/2019, the petitioner, John Gaul Lebo, immediate past Speaker of the Cross River State…

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CR: Ayade To Hold 18 Meetings For Last Batch Of Appointments

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Cross River State governor, Ben Ayade will hold 18 meetings across the three senatorial districts of the state before announcing his last batch of appointments, Christian Ita, Special Adviser Media & Publicity to Ayade, has revealed in a press statement. Investigations by www.calitown.com are pointing to the fact that the governor intends to use the…

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Donald Duke Cuts Deal With AMCON, UBA To Save Ikoyi Property

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Former Cross River State governor Donald Duke yesterday, Monday, told a Federal High Court in Lagos that his N537, 334,360.77 debt to Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, AMCON, will be sorted out in less than 12 hours. Edoigiawerie Omoruyi, Duke’s counsel, told Justice Nicholas Oweibo that he had approached AMCON with a promise to liquidate…

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Goddie Akpama/Asuquo Ekpenyong Jr Faceoff: “You Threatened Me,… I Did Not”

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Politician and social commentator, Goddie Akpama has maintained in a widely circulated write up that Asuquo Ekpenyong Jnr, former Finance Commissioner to Cross River State governor, Ben Ayade, has threatened his life. Akpama maintains that, “… on the night of August 26, 2019 at about 9:01, 9:09 and 9:16pm my phone rang and I picked…

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Agba Jalingo’s Persecution, Cross River State And My Take!

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The unlawful arrest and persecution of Agba Jalingo, Editor-in-Chief/Publisher of CrossRiverWatch for trying to hold the Cross River State government accountable, is one that must be condemned by all well meaning citizens, we must all rise now to stand against it. No democracy anywhere in the world is taking one’s government to task a crime….

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Buhari Shocks Cross River, Appoints Goddy Agba Junior Minister

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While hopes were high in Cross River State that ministerial nominee, Goddy Jedy Agba, will be assigned a major ministerial portfolio by President Muhammadu Buhari, the President early today at the swearing in of new ministers in Abuja, appointed Agba as Minister of State, Power, widely perceived as a junior ministerial position. Widely touted to…

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