Self-styled Mama Bakassi, Florence Ita-Giwa has been fingered by a group, Coalition of Bakassi Indigenes, as being behind a serial scheme which has robbed Bakassi indigenes of tons of relief materials sent in by the Federal Government to cushion the deplorable consequences that have come with Nigeria’s ceding of the oil rich peninsula to neighbouring…
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Nigeria’s Chief of Naval Staff, Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas, a Rear Admiral, yesterday, Monday, June 5, 2017, led a delegation of top naval personnel to the Akim Police Station, Calabar, Cross River State, where he assessed the damage done on the station by men of the Nigerian Navy during last week’s bloody confrontation between the Police and…
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Patrick Ugbe, Chief Executive Officer, CEO, of HIT 95.9 FM, Calabar’s first private radio station, kidnapped days ago in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, has been released by his kidnappers and www.calitown.com can confirm that he has re-united with his family and close friends, early Saturday morning. His kidnap, which coincided with the visit…
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Normalcy is gradually being restored to Calabar following the intervention of the state government in the face-off between the Nigerian Police and the Navy, late Tuesday evening and into the night. Addressing newsmen, shortly after an emergrncy security council meeting at Government House, Calabar, today, state governor, Ben Ayade urged the citizens to go about…
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In what can rightly be described as a mad evening in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, officers and men of the Nigerian Navy and the Police, for several hours, engaged each other in a gun battle that shook the state capital to her bones, www.calitown.com can authoritatively reveal. Trouble is believed to have started…
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At exactly 12:45 pm, Nigerian time, today, May 30, 2017, when our correspondents visited several government offices in Calabar, the Cross River State, it was confirmed that the strike action embarked upon by the state chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, was in full swing and several civil servants in the state have remained…
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