Category: Cross River News

CRSG’s N40bn Bond: Matters Arising

September 2, 2014 Admin No Comments

We the undersigned Cross River State indigenes have been thoroughly alarmed by the news reports of our Governor getting approval from the Cross River State House of Assembly to raise a bond for the sum of N40 bn to finance various projects of the state government. 2. Ordinarily, taking a Bond or other loan to…

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EDITORIAL: CR, A Governor And 2015

August 31, 2014August 31, 2014 Admin No Comments

Political institutions and people, the world over, often define for themselves a set of rules and conventions that govern not just their political engagements but the entire political process which should ideally culminate in the election of candidates for a specified term in office. In the engagements that belie this process, where people are not…

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UCTH: Doctors May Confront CMD Over Sack Letters

August 31, 2014August 31, 2014 Admin 1 Comment

While the Presidential directive to suspend the Residency Programme for medical doctors in Nigeria may have been rescinded after the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, called off its prolonged strike action, it is emerging that a crisis may be brewing in the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, UCTH, over the hospital’s management handling of the sack…

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CR 2015: PDP Source Carpets Legor Idagbo

August 29, 2014August 29, 2014 Admin 9 Comments

A top PDP source in Cross River state in the wee hours of Friday, called to inform www.calitown.com that “those who are assuring the state Commissioner for Works, Legor Idagbo that he will become governor of this state are about to give him the kind of laughable assurance his kinsmen, Kanu Agabi and Walter Eneji…

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Doctor Slumps And Dies While Jogging

August 29, 2014 Admin 1 Comment

Family, friends and colleagues are still at a loss over the untimely death of a consultant in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, UCTH, early Thursday morning, www.calitown.com can reveal. Dr Ogum Obeten, the consultant, is said to have slumped and died on Thursday, August 28, 2014, while…

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Prof Carpets Nigeria’s Role In Bakassi’s Ceding

August 27, 2014 Admin No Comments

International lawyer and expert on the Law of Treaties, Professor Akin Oyebode has carpeted the role Nigeria played in ceding the contentious Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon. Oyebode says the country demonstrated “incompetence” in putting together a team of lawyers with no experts in international treaties who went ahead to “throw away $300 million in legal…

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