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Ayade Suspends 2021 Calabar Carnival

November 29, 2021 Admin No Comments

We can confirm that Cross River State governor, Ben Ayade, has suspended the 2021 Calabar Carnival citing insecurity in the state & the COVID-19 pandemic, as reasons why Africa’s biggest street party cannot be staged. Ayade who announced the suspension at the State Executive Council Chamber in the presence of carnival band leaders, Speaker of…

CRS 2023: When There Is Silence, Noise Takes Over

November 27, 2021November 27, 2021 Admin No Comments

By Efiom Okpo The political dynamic in Cross River State is, to say the least, now becoming difficult to understand. Ordinarily, it would be easy to predict the political climate in the State but not anymore. What is the reason for this befuddling (what should have been a natural) outcome? The answer is not too…

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Calabar Pastor “My Father, My Father” Under Fire For Post To Davido

November 24, 2021 Admin No Comments

Goodheart Val Aloysius, the Calabar-based pastor of Father’s House International Church, is currently the subject of scorn and abuse on the internet over a post he made on Facebook, shortly after Nigerian music superstar, Davido, raked in millions, donated by friends to mark his birthday. Aloysius, better known for marketing himself as “My Father, My…

Cross River News, News

CR: Police Nab Suspects Who Kidnapped Medical Doctor in Bakassi

November 23, 2021November 23, 2021 Admin No Comments

The Police in Cross River State have arrested three suspects, Samuel Ime Thompson, 25, Kingsley Mbetobong, 23 and Asuquo Ekpo Etim, 26, in connection with the kidnap of one Edmund Akpaikpe, a medical doctor with Irua Specialist Hospital, Edo state, around Esigi village in Bakassi Local Government Area of the state. Akpaikpe was kidnapped this…

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PENSIONS: CR Retired Perm Secs Appeal To Ayade

November 23, 2021November 23, 2021 Admin No Comments

Chairman, Association of Retired State Permanent Secretaries of Nigeria, ARSPON, CRS Branch, Efenji Odey, has made a passionate appeal to Cross State governor, Ben Ayade, to consider the plight of retirees in the state as the state awaits the disbursement of the expected N18.2 billions bailout funds to the state from the Federal Government. Odey…

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Another Abduction Dazes Ugep!

November 21, 2021November 21, 2021 Admin No Comments

At 3:00 am, early Sunday morning, November 21, 2021, yet to be identified persons, in three Hilux vehicles, abducted one Augustine Omini Iwara, popularly known as “Hydro”, in Ugep, Yakurr LGA, Cross River State in circumstances that have dazed the local community. Impeccable sources confirmed to www.calitown.com that Hydro’s abductors arrived his business premises, “Classic…

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