The views expressed underneath are those of the author Shortly before Ayade’s Supreme Court judgment, I was on a short visit to Calabar when my Archbishop asked that I represent him during the opening of an ultra-modern diagnostic centre built by General Ukpo, the brother of emeritus Archbishop Joseph Edra Ukpo. General Abdulsalami Abubakar…
–Greg Betiang Cross River State Commissioner of Police, CP, Hafiz Mohammed Inuwa, has told www.calitown.com that in the last one year, four of his men have been summarily dismissed from the Police, just like twenty five police personnel under his charge are facing orderly room trial on cases bordering on indiscipline. This action he further…
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On the heels of the recent declaration by Cross River State governor, Ben Ayade, that 3,000 new political appointments will be announced in the first week of March, 2018, www.calitown.com can reveal that political appointment application forms are presently being circulated in a bid to recruit and submit 240 names per local government area to…
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Cross River State has been formally cleared as having no case of Lassa Fever in any part of the eighteen Local Government Areas of the State. The State Commissioner for Health, Inyang Asibong who stated this in a statement signed by Ben Okache, Information Officer in the CRS Ministry of Information, Calabar, Thursday, pointed out…
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In 2005, former Cross River State governor, Donald Duke, successfully implemented and commissioned the Second National Urban Water Sector Reform Project, that gave Cross Riverians access to pipe-borne water and enhanced the commercial viability of CRSWBL. The cost was 198.2 million dollars, financed by the World Bank and French Development Agency. This is 2018 and…
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has shut down three fuel stations in Cross River State for not accounting for three trucks of fuel. Bassey Nkanga, DPR Operations Controller in charge of Cross River, directed the closure yesterday during a surveillance of fuel stations across the state. He said that the stations’ action had violated…
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