Community sources in Ekureku, Abi Local Government Area, say more than 27 people are feared dead and a little over 40 remain in critical condition at the Eja Memorial Hospital, Itigidi, after a suspected Cholera outbreak, hit Ekureku, www.calitown.com can reveal. Worse hit are the Ekureku communities of Ngarabe, Akarefo, Agbara, Eminekpon, Anong Ekureku, Akarefo-Ezeke…
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The Cross River State Government has approved the elevation of 21 Directors in the state service to the rank of Permanent Secretary. In a memo from the Office of the Head of Service dated, December 16, 2022, with reference number, GO/HOS/97/Vol.1/49, under listed the following names as those elevated: Etim Effiong Ayi Ben Tawo Olom…
A Cross River State High Court sitting in Calabar and presided over by Justice Elais O. Abua, has restrained the Igbo community in the state from organising and holding her Cultural Day in Calabar. In an ex-parte motion brought before the court, in Suit No. HC/MSC. 207/2022, by Agu Onyekachi, Raymond Atulomah and David Ihesiulo…
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Rose Bassey, former Cross River State Accountant General, was yesterday kidnapped by yet to be identified persons on the Iwuru to Uyanga stretch of the Ikom/Calabar highway, gradually becoming notorious for very recent kidnappings for ransom. Family sources who spoke with www.calitown.com revealed that she was in company of her driver and mechanic, between the…
…Operators shut motor parks early over development…Managers “… we’ve deployed Anti Kidnapping tactical unit till normalcy return…” -PPRO There is trepidation among commuters plying the Calabar-Ikom highway following last weekend’s deadly attack on Omaga Odo, a former Cross River State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB boss, along the now notorious Uyanga axis of the road…
Francis Edu, the Director in charge of Conservation, Protection and Compliance in the Cross River Forestry Commission and three other officials of the Forestry Commission are presently recuperating after being viciously attacked by persons suspected to be working for the state’s Anti-Deforestation Task Force (North). Investigations by www.calitown.com revealed that Edu and his team, alongside eight…
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