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…
Cross River State House of Assembly Speaker, John Gaul Lebo has been honoured with the National Economics Students Association, NESA, iconic award in recognition of his immense contribution to youth development and purposeful leadership as well as his immeasurable support to NESA. While receiving the award in his office, the Speaker thanked the students’ body…
Executive Chairman of the State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, Cross River State, Stephen Odey, has informed members of the Cross River State Indigenous Contractors Forum that SUBEB will “go after contractors in the state who abandoned jobs awarded them” in line with government’s commitment to ensure that facilities and infrastructure for the basic education…
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One time Chairman of Abi Local Government Area, Cross River State, Chuks Agube, has exclusively informed www.calitown.com that immediate past governor of CRS, Liyel Imoke, contrary to information at the disposal of many, gave his former Chief of Staff, Alex Egbona, the nod to run for the Yakurr/Abi Federal Constituency seat in Nigeria’s House of…
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After the furore generated by a circular issued by the Permanent Secretary in the Cross River State Ministry of Education, Ann Odey to the effect that the state government has banned morning devotion in her primary and secondary schools, government has responded by suspending the Permanent Secretary saying too that it has not banned such…
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