Informed military sources have just told www.calitown.com that six soldiers of Cross River extraction lost their lives in the recent Boko Haram attack in Gwoza, Borno state. Painfully, four of the six died when their armoured personnel carrier, APC, struck a land mine deployed by the sect while the other two died in active combat,…
It has been revealed to www.calitown.com that there are thirty six operating quarries in Akamkpa LGA, netting the state a considerable amount of money that is shoring up the state’s account balance. However of the thirty six quarries, ten are not working, leaving the state with twenty six functional quarries. Specifically, Julius Berger, Expanded Minning,…
Investigations by www.calitown.com show that the Gerald Ada led-Cross River State Investment Bureau may have attracted to CRS, a potential investment portfolio in excess of $2 billion over a period of four years. Additionally, the state government is believed to have heavily invested in the development of benchmark infrastructure, the environment and security to encourage…
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The Special Adviser, Cross River State Department of Community and Primary Health Care, Iyam Ugot has informed www.calitown.com that it is on record that CRS as the best implementing state in the Roll Back Malaria Programme, distributed 1.4 million mosquito nets in the state. First, he said, “we did a distribution to the vulnerable group;…
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While Ngim Okpo, the member representing Biase State Constituency in the Cross River State House of Assembly may have sounded out his desire to return to the CRS House of Assembly for a second term, unfolding events in the Biase LGA political landscape are indicating otherwise, www.calitown.com has scooped. In an interview with the online…
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