Category: News

Did Betta Edu, Cross River State Health Commissioner Lie?

April 16, 2020 Admin No Comments

Three years ago, on February 11, 2017, Betta Edu, (at that time the Director-General, Primary Health Care Development Agency, PHCDA) was my radio guest on #ThePublicView on HIT 95.9 FM, Calabar. As the interaction wore on, the versatile answers she provided to the questions I asked her on the live radio programme were outrightly commendable….

COVID-19: De Norsemen Kclub Makes Donation To Elderly Peoples Home In Calabar

April 10, 2020 Admin No Comments

As show of support to the aged and elderly, believed to be very vulnerable to the COVID-19 virus, members of De Norsemen Kclub of Nigeria International, DNKI, Cross River State chapter, this afternoon in Calabar, presented packs of hand washing liquid, hand wipes, special organization crested washable and reusable face masks produced exclusively by the…

Breaking News, Cross River News, News

Detained Former Presidential Aide, Obono-Obla Regains Freedom

April 8, 2020 Admin No Comments

Former chairman of the now scrapped Special Investigation Panel on Recovery of Public Property, SPIP, Okoi Obono-Obla, www.calitown.com can reveal, has been released on bail from the custody of the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, ICPC. Legal team member, First B. Isa, informed us over the phone that “he was released two hours ago after perfecting…

Breaking News, Cross River News, News

COVID-19: FG, CRSG Begin Disbursement Of N240Million To Poor Households

April 7, 2020 Admin No Comments

By George Odok The Cross River State Government has commenced the disbursement of about two hundred and fourty million Naira Covid-19 Intervention relieve funds to the vulnerable in Cross River State. The N239,900,000 (Two Hundred and Thirty-nine Million, Nine Hundred Thousand Naira) Conditional Cash Transfer released by the Federal Government is to give succor to…

Cross River News, News

Who Wants To Put Chief Okoi Obono-Obla In Harm’s Way?

April 3, 2020 Admin No Comments

…HIS ARREST AND DETENTION, EXPOSURE TO HEALTH RISKS AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC 1. We are lawyers to Chief Okoi Obono-Obla, the erstwhile Chairman of the disbanded Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property, and issue this Press Statement in that capacity. 2. Since the 20th of March, 2020, when Chief was arrested…

Cross River News, Features, News

Undiandeye, Chairman CRS Forestry Commission Opens Up On ‘Feud’ With Odey Oyama

March 31, 2020 Admin No Comments

1. I have been bemused and worried by the flurry of media reports following the unfortunate resignation of the Chairman of the Anti – Deforestation Task Force, Mr Odey Oyama, recently, and the wrong assumption that I had something to do with it. This is so because Mr Oyama has been very close to me…

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