In most rural communities around us right now, day breaks stealthily and the wee hours of the morning are mostly cold, dry and cloudy. In the afternoons, the sun bakes our skins while dust is majestically wrapped around the humid blowing wind. It is of course the month of December, the gateway month to another…
Rose Oko, the senator representing Cross River State Northern Senatorial district in Nigeria’s Senate is under fire over allegations that she may have done little or nothing to show support and solidarity to the Ugaga community in Yala Local Government Area of the state, following the recent arrest and detention in Abuja of the community’s…
Staff of the All Progressive Congress (APC) National Secretariat and members from the South-South Zone, on a courtesy call to the NDDC office yesterday, have expressed confidence in the Ndoma-Egba led NDDC administration and the successes recorded so far in the commission. The staff delegation led by Ubong Akpan told the Chairman Governing Board of Niger…
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Governing Board Chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Victor Ndoma-Egba, SAN, on behalf of the Board and Management of NDDC has congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari on the occasion of his 75th birthday anniversary. In a message signed by him and made available by his Special Assistant Communications, Clara Braide, Ndoma-Egba said President Buhari…
As the fallout from the recent confrontation between herdsmen and the Ugaga Community in Yala Local Government Area, North of Cross River State continues, sources in the area have informed www.calitown.com that the community’s Clan head as well as the Youth leader were today arrested and ferried to Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. Police officers we gathered…
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Several delegates to the just concluded National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from Cross River State are angered and are silently insisting that the leadership of the party in the state may have shortchanged them by paying most delegates a paltry N130, 000 (one thirty thousand naira only), less than the N250, 000…
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