Speaker of the Cross River State House of Assembly,CRSHA, John Gaul Lebo has pledged the preparedness of the House to partner with the Budget Transparency & Accountability Initiative – Nigeria (BTAN) and other related bodies in the fiscal scrutiny of the state budgets. Lebo made the pledge when he received members of the Budget Transparency…
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Sources inside the University of Calabar, Cross River State, informed www.calitown.com late Monday evening that the Vice-Chancellor of the institution, James Epoke and bursar, Peter Agi, were guests of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for financial impropriety. Their parley with the EFCC is not unconnected with series of petitions that seem to trail…
On the heels of Gov. Ben Ayade’s recent decision to appoint 35 Special Advisers into his government, Cross River State Labour Party chairman, Austine Ibok is alarmed that the governor has decided to tow this part considering the dire financial situation of the state. On the line from Abuja, Ibok told www.calitown.com he thinks “Ayade’s…
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By Effiom Godfrey 22 year old Sunday Festus was on Tuesday, June 30, 2015, apprehended by the police in Ugep, Yakurr LG Area of the state for allegedly dumping here one day old baby in a gutter. The ugly incident which happened late Tuesday evening is said to be a second time the suspect will…
Perhaps as something that can be referred to as a new way of doing things, www.calitown.com has scooped that of the 35 Special Advisers CR governor, Ben Ayade, intends to pick, a good number of them may be in a pool, waiting to replace others who do not perform along the way. “These people should…
While the Cross River State governor, Ben Ayade may have wished the immediate past Internal Revenue Service chairman, Peter Oti, “success in his future endeavours” as contained in the press release by Christian Ita, Chief Press Secretary to Gov. Ayade, sources within government circles have informed www.calitown.com that Oti’s resignation is a firm foot in…
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