By Iwara U Iwara In 1978, precisely on November 18, the “Mad Messiah”, Jim Jones, founder of the Peoples Temple in the USA, oversaw, through a sweet tongue-coated scheme, the mass suicide of more than 900 members of his sect who had relocated with him from California to the small South American nation of Guyana….
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Some political appointees in the Ben Ayade administration have just discovered that their names may have been taken off the payroll for August salaries in circumstances that have been linked to a titanic political battle suspected to be playing out between Tina Banku Agbor, Secretary to the Cross River State Government and Dane Osim Asu,…
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An unnamed five-year old boy and nine others are believed to have been killed in early Saturday morning’s attack on the Usumutong community by persons suspected to be from Ediba community, both of Abi Local Government Area, Cross River State, www.calitown.com has been informed. A confirmed source, on the line from Usumutong revealed that the…
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There appears to be no let off in the intractable communal conflict between the Ediba and Usumutong communities in Abi Local Government Area, Cross River State Central, following a series of guerilla war like attacks unleashed on each other by both communities, www.calitown.com can report. Last week’s killing of one Pastor John in Ediba and…
The Cross River State Government says it is deeply disappointed “at the threat to peace and security that was witnessed in some communities in Yakurr Local Government Area recently”, adding that “communities that should ordinarily co-exist mutually as kith and kin engaged each other in an ignoble war, with mindless killings and destruction of both…
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We can reliably confirm that Tuesday’s torrential rain in Calabar killed an elderly man, a father of four, around the MCC axis. Sources say after the heavy downpour, the deceased stepped out and attempted to cross the deep gutter but missed a step and fell into the gutter, resulting in his being swept away by…
