Former Cross River State governor and presidential aspirant, Donald Duke, within the week, had a no holds barred interview with Iwara Iwara, Publisher, www.calitown.com. Duke spoke to Iwara about his presidential ambition, his relationship and candid thoughts about his successor, Liyel Imoke and then Ben Ayade, governor, Cross River State. This Sunday, September 16, 2018,…
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– By Thompson Anika The Nigerian Political Chess Board is getting broader, brighter and interesting as the time draws near for political parties to make their choices of who should fly their flag for the available positions at different levels of elections in the forthcoming 2019 polls. Expectedly, the battle grounds would commence with the…
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On Monday, September 3, 2018, former governor of Cross River State and presidential hopeful, Donald Duke, joined the ranks of the Social Democratic Party, SDP. He was also at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja, to meet with national officers of the party. See more pictures from that visit.
My fellow Cross Riverians, I wish to start by expressing my gratitude to all of you who’ve travelled from far and near to grace this historic moment in the annals of our State. I feel so humbled and honored by your response to my invitation at a very short notice. This is quite exhilarating and…
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Abenmire Adi Williams, in this piece, shares her experience about the “money woman” culture in one of Cross River’s communities, where girls are forcefully married off, even serving as collateral for money borrowed and ‘owned’ when debtor parents are unable to pay the creditor. Fear lives on in Cross River’s Becheve community, Obanliku Local Government…
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The Speaker of the Cross River State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon John Gaul Lebo condemns strongly the Thursday August 30, 2018 kidnap of Comrade Egbe Jerome in Calabar. He describes the act as ‘barbaric and wicked’ against a harmless gentleman as Egbe Jerome. ” Jerome is a cool-headed, peaceful, very cerebral and liberal person….