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CR Education Commissioner Wants NUT To Shelve Strike

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Offiong E. Offiong, Cross River state Education Commissioner, has appealed to the state branch of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, to suspend its strike action and allow academic activities to commence in all public primary and secondary schools across the State. While addressing journalists in his office, Offiong expressed surprise at NUT’s action, stating…

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AquaPrime Water Enters Calabar Market!

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The quality of water packaging and vending in Calabar has been taken several notches up with the arrival of AquaPrime Water in the Cross River state market, www.calitown.com can reveal. Produced from a recently opened state of the art factory at Plot 3, Block 2, Clement Ebri Drive in the high brow State Housing Estate,…

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Activist Challenges CR Bond Law In Court

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In an originating summons, pursuant to the order rule of the Cross River State High Court, Civil Procedures Rule, 2008, human rights activist, Okoi Obono-Obla, www.calitown.com can report, is suing the Cross River State Government, Attorney-General, CRS as well as the Speaker of the CRS House of Assembly, seeking to determine in the suit whether…

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Vena Ikem Turns 50, Celebrates With Family And Friends

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It was music, food, good wishes and lots of laughter late Saturday evening as former National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Venatius Ikem, turned 50 and celebrated with family, friends and politicians alike. Glad to be 50, Ikem told www.calitown.com that “…he is happy to be 50”. For those yet to attain 50, “God will…

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Priests Angle For Vacant Catholic Bishop Of Ogoja Position

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This weekend’s Catholic ceremony in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state, which will officially see John Ebebe Ayah, installed as the Bishop of the Uyo Catholic diocese, may be serving as a sounding bell for the commencement of subtle moves by an austere list of priests in Ayah’s native Ogoja Catholic diocese, to take over from Ayah…

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Fuel Scarcity Coming?

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Sources in the oil sector have informed www.calitown.com that winding queues at petrol filling stations may resurface in Calabar by this weekend if the strike by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation branches of the Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers as well as the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria…

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