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 Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s arrest this week of Frank Ayade , brother of Cross River State governor, Ben Ayade, and the resultant storming of the Ayades residence on Duke Town Close, State Housing Estate, by operatives of the EFCC, appears to have sobered Gov. Ayade, as he looks better poised to discharge his…
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Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, sources late Tuesday evening informed www.calitown.com, visited the personal residence of Cross River State governor, Ben Ayade, on the strength of several petitions written to the anti-corruption agency against the governor and close cronies. When www.calitown.com reporters visited Duke Town Close, in highbrow State Housing Estate, Calabar, where…
Information at the disposal of www.calitown.com indicates that the Governing Council of the University of Calabar, Unical, is moving swiftly to wade into the disagreement between the institution’s Vice-Chancellor, Zana Akpagu and Bursar, Peter Agi, which resulted in the violent protest at the institution, early this week. Multi-millionaire, Emmanuel Iwanyanwu, who heads the institution’s Governing…
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Cross River State governor, Ben Ayade, has directed that Gabe Odu Oji, Commissoner for Water Resources and Igile Oju Igile, Managing Director, MD, of the Cross River State Water Board, proceed on indefinite suspension from office, effective today. When the governor paid an unscheduled visit to the Water Board premises at 9:00am this morning, it…
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The feud between the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Zana Akpagu and the institution’s bursar, Peter Agi, took a turn for the worst this morning as students of the institution protested for and against the feuding two and only the intervention of security agents prevented a law and order breakdown in the institution, www.calitown.com…
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