As the fuel scarcity that has hit most parts of Cross River State enters a second week, the price of the product, sold mostly by black market operators has hit N400 a litre, www.calitown.com investigations can reveal. While it is an open secret that most filling station operators have bluntly refused to sell their products,…
Interview by Sebastine Eko This Year 2015 will be 40 years since the Christmas Eve Civilian Massacre of Ugep people in 1975, what memories do you have of this sad event ? On the 24th December 1975, when this unfortunate event happened, I was in secondary school and narrowly escaped being killed by the soldiers….
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One time Editor of the Nigerian Chronicle and established Mass Communication teacher, Etim Anim, has passed on in Calabar, family sources have confirmed to www.calitown.com. A Professor of Mass Communication, Anim edited the Nigerian Chronicle in the late seventies into the early eighties before leaving for the now rested Sunray newspaper, Nigeria’s first all colour…
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Residents of Calabar, the Cross River State capital, late Monday evening began to experience what can best be described as an artificial fuel scarcity brought about by the insistence of independent fuel marketers to dictate market prices and sell above the government approved price of N87m(eighty seven naira) a litre. In most fuel stations visited…
For most residents of the lower section of Etim Ekpo Crescent, opposite the Women Development Centre on Parliamentary Road, Calabar, the early Thursday morning rain in Calabar was no blessing as the rain triggered a life threatening landslide which ate up a substantial amount of the road, consumed property while no life was lost, www.calitown.com…
