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Richard Edoki, Nigerian-Born Broadcast Journalist Nominated For UK Radio Award

January 18, 2025 Admin No Comments

Nigerian-born UK-based broadcast journalist, Richard Edoki, has been shortlisted for “Best Newcomer at the National Hospital Radio Awards 2025.” Edoki, a Cross Riverian from Abi LGA, known popularly as Richybongo, was named a finalist in the Best Newcomer category at the National Hospital Radio Awards 2025, organized by the Hospital Broadcasting Association (HBA), annually to…

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Fleeing Illegal Foreign Miners Invade Cross River Forests, Locals Fear Clashes May Occur

January 12, 2025January 13, 2025 Admin No Comments

Several illegal miners, suspected to be foreigners, were late Sunday evening, reported to be roaming vast forests in Yakurr, Abi and Biase local government areas, apparently on the run, after the Cross River State Government, CRSG, declared their operations illegal and began arresting hordes of them. Locals in the area who called www.calitown.com, reported sighting…

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CRSG Arrests 203 Suspected Illegal Foreign Miners In Yakurr LGA

January 11, 2025January 11, 2025 Admin No Comments

In a sting operation led by the Cross River State Security Adviser, O. U. Obono, a retired Major General of the Nigerian Army, the Cross River State Government, CRSG, scores of young men suspected to be foreign miners who invaded some communities in Yakurr Local Government Area, were arrested Saturday morning as many of them…

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CRSG Intervenes, To Pay N399.7 Million As WAEC Fees For Indigent Students

January 10, 2025 Admin No Comments

The Cross River State Government will again embark on the payment of West Africa Examination Council, WAEC, fees for indigenes of the state in the new year. Government House sources in Calabar, the state capital, confirmed to www.calitown.com that already, an Executive Council memo for WAEC registration of indigenous students for May/June 2025 examinations has…

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Ikom-Etomi-Agbokim Waterfalls Road Construction Flag-off, Owan Enoh Happy

January 9, 2025 Admin No Comments

Nigeria’s Minister of State for Industry, John Owan Enoh, has expressed joy for being part of a retinue of government officials and other people at the flag off ceremony “for the construction of the much-anticipated Ikom-Etomi-Agbokim Waterfalls road, Cross River State, which took place yesterday.” Enoh who took to his verified Facebook page to express…

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Inferno At The High Court Of Justice, Ogoja: History In Smoke

January 8, 2025 Admin No Comments

A few days ago I watched a video posted by Agba Jalingo of the iconic and historic High Court of Justice, Ogoja, engulfed by fire. Since its establishment in about 1971 with Justice Inyang who passed on in Ogoja, as pioneer Judge, the court has told stories and has been a story itself. This Court,…

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