Contrary to gist making the rounds that immediate past Commissioner for Works, CRS, and governorship hopeful, Legor Idagbo has opted out of the governorship race and settled instead for election into Nigeria’s House of Representatives, the man at the centre of it all has just informed www.calitown.com via a text message that he is still…
By Our Correspondent Former CRS governor, Donald Duke’s “Monkey Work, Monkey Chop” remark at last week’s gubernatorial rally for Goddy Agba, appears to be engaging a cross-section of Cross Riverians, www.calitown.com can report. In several gatherings across, be there political or not, people seem to have effortlessly taken up the task of analyzing what the…
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By Omini Ikpi The Catholic Church in Ogoja Diocese, North of Cross River is receiving high marks for the role she has so far played in getting the Nsadop and Boje communities in Boki LGA of the state to come to the round table and work for peace, four years after a land dispute between…
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What was supposed to be a vigil in honour of an elderly man turned into a tragedy late Friday night when a young man (name withheld) was shot to death in circumstances www.calitown.com sources say may not be unconnected with local cult activities. We gather that while the vigil which was held in Ijiman, Ugep,…
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“Without freedom of mind and of association, man has no means to self-protection in our social order”, Harold Joseph Laski, the British political theorist, economist, author, and lecturer, wrote. We are compelled to quote Laski because of the political drama presently unfolding in Cross River State. In a terse statement on Friday afternoon, November 7,…
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While the dust from Goddy Jedy Agba’s governorship declaration yesterday and former governor, Donald Duke’s speech at the occasion, has not settled, www.calitown.com has just been informed that after this afternoon’s meeting at the PDP secretariat in Calabar, the party may be angling for the suspension from the party of high-profile members like Senate Leader,…
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