Before he constitutes the Cross River State Executive Council, Ben Ayade, governor of the state made it clear that those to be appointed commissioners and special advisers must pass through the rigours of an aptitude test. Cross Riverians who have eyes set on heading government boards and members of such boards, it was further revealed,…
By Vincent Uket Charles Antigha Bassey, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, UCTH, chapter chairman of the Senior Staff Association of Teaching Hospitals, Research Institutes and Allied Institutions, says the current management of the hospital has pursued policies that are not labour friendly and continue to demonstrate through her actions that she is not about to…
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Competent sources inside the University of Calabar, Unical, insist that the two-weeks closure of the institution on the heels of a mass protest, all of yesterday, may exceed the duration of the closure as security reports are beginning to reveal that the mass protest by students of the institution was carefully planned and executed, to…
While sources inside Nigeria’s apex bank, the Central Bank of Nigeria, have confirmed to www.calitown.com that Cross River State has received a princely N7.856bn as bail-out funds, with a rider from the CBN that governors must “prioritise salary payments before other obligations”, it appears that the Cross River State Government and the Labour Union in…
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Sources within the Labour movement in Cross River State have informed www.calitown.com that if the Cross River State Government does not act, and fast too, it may bear the brunt of a crippling strike action to be embarked upon by civil servants in the state. Already, plans have been concluded by Labour to down tools…
Tragedy struck in Big Qua, Calabar, Monday afternoon when an unemployed young man, simply identified as Emman, stabbed to death another young man in his mid-twenties, incidentally also called Emman in circumstances that are still fuzzy, www.calitown.com can reveal. The stabbing which was to the neck, occurred at about several minutes to three O’clock and…
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