A social media hashtag presently trending online, has sparked an online war of words between Cross River and Akwa Ibom state indigenes over what one indigene of Cross River State who does not want his name in print, believes is “…the somewhat insensitive nature of the message contained in this hashtag and the clear fact…
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As our Muslim brothers celebrate the Eid Mubarak today, The Chairman, Governing Board of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Victor Ndoma-Egba, SAN has felicitated with all Muslim Faithfuls while tasking Nigerians on the need for sacrifice and love for our country and humanity. The NDDC Chairman, in a message released by his Special Assistant, Communications,…
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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…