It was a touching scene early Wednesday morning as a five year old male child, identified simply as Chidera, drowned while swimming in the Atimaka stream, a tributary emptying into the Cross River in Ikom, Cross River Central. Helen Takon, an Ikom resident who spoke with www.calitown.com, late this evening, explained that the young lad…
Painfully, it is no longer news that academic activities have been paralysed since last Wednesday (9th November 2017) in the Cross River University of Technology (CRUTECH), as result of the on-going strike action embarked upon by the University’s branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). According to that Union’s official bulletin released on…
The autobiography of Goddy Jedy Agba, politician, farmer and former Group General Manager, Crude Oil Marketing Division, Nigerian National Petroleum Company “Stepping Forward with Uti J. D. Agba” has been slated for public presentation on Saturday, November 18, 2017 at the Calabar International Conference Centre (CICC), Calabar. Scheduled to start at 10 a.m., the event…
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Commuters using the Atimbo/Akpabuyo road in Calabar, Cross River State, are appealing that the state government should come to their aid and repair large parts of the road that are currently impassable. Additionally, there is also resentment that several persons operating as Federal Road Safety officers, the Police, Vehicle Inspection Officers, VIOs and others, have…
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We can reliably inform that since 2.00 pm today, Tuesday, November 8, 2017, students of the Cross River State University of Technology, CRUTECH, Calabar campus have gone head to head with members of the CRUTECH chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, over the decision of the latter to resume indefinitely, a strike…
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Cross River State Commissioner for Youth and Sports Development, Asu Okang, has maintained that “young people handling core political appointments in CRS have delivered” and are helping state governor, Ben Ayade, achieve his dream for the state. Okang who spoke this morning on HIT 95.9 FM’s breakfast show was quick to point out that he…