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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…

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…

Features, News

SS I Student Drowns In Ugep, CRS

March 31, 2020 Admin No Comments

Tragedy struck as a senior secondary I student of Community Secondary School, Ugep, Cross River State, simply identified to www.calitown.com as Victory, drowned in Ugep yesterday, we can report. Competent sources in the area informed that Victory, his brother and two others, who had accompanied their mother to farm, went to the nearby stream for…

Cross River News, News

Ayade Inaugurates 15-man COVID-19 CR Response Team

March 31, 2020 Admin No Comments

As a direct response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Cross River State governor, Ben Ayade will today at 11am, inaugurate the 15-man response committee recently set up by the government. The committee is headed by the Commissioner for Health, Betta Edu while the Commissioner for Finance, Asuquo Ekpenyong is the Secretary. Other members of the committee…

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