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REVEALED: Communal Conflict In CR Displaced 7000

September 22, 2020 Admin No Comments

Chairman, Abi Local Government Council, Cross River State, Faratoh Robinson has used the occasion of the 2020 United Nations World Peace Day to reveal that the 14 year long communal conflict between the Ediba and Usumutong communities in the LGA, displaced 7000 people, destroyed 1753 houses while a sizable number of persons lost their lives…

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Celebrating Faratoh Robinson: A Man of Peace!

September 20, 2020 Admin No Comments

By Azogor Ideba Every generation begets a rare kind, infrequent human species who leave indelible footprints in the sands of time, rewriting history and breaking barriers of impossibilities. For these iconic individuals, impossibility only exist in the dictionaries. Gifted with exceptional abilities, they provide solutions to obdurate glitches that defied answers. With an indomitable spirit…

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Cross River Lawyer Jailed Seven Years Over Failed Land Deal

September 14, 2020September 14, 2020 Admin No Comments

A Calabar-based lawyer, Ezechi Okereke, was on Friday convicted and jailed for seven years by a Federal High Court sitting in Calabar for a failed land transaction. Okereke was convicted on one count of obtaining the sum of N3.45m from one Enwono Eyo under false pretences. In his judgment, Justice I. E. Ekwo, sentenced Okereke…

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CR Assembly Man Grateful Mum Is New Unical VC

September 14, 2020 Admin No Comments

Hilary Bisong, who represents Boki II State Constituency in the Cross River State House of Assembly, says he is “Gratefully thankful” that his mother, Professor of Education, Florence Obi, has been appointed to suceed Zana Akpagu as Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar. In an exclusive interaction with www.calitown.com, Bisong also added that; “We…

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PDP Senatorial Primaries: Odey Extends Olive Branch To Jarigbe, Others

September 10, 2020 Admin No Comments

People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the forthcoming Cross River North Senatorial Bye-election, Dr. Stephen Odey has expressed readiness to redefine representation at the senate if elected. Speaking to journalists Thursday at the PDP national secretariat, Abuja, Odey promised that “Ogoja senatorial district will never remain the same” with him as senator. “My people should…

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“Jarigbe Cannot Withstand Me” – Stephen Odey

September 10, 2020 Admin No Comments

Stephen Odey, declared winner of last Saturday’s PDP primaries for the vacant Cross River North senatorial seat, has exclusively told www.calitown.com that, “Jarigbe cannot withstand me in CR North. I am not a street boy, I am somebody that the people of CR North know is a material” Odey’s comments were in reaction to a…

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