Perhaps to demonstrate the seriousness it attaches to the drive by the Cross River State government to shore up her internally generated revenue, the CRS Internal Revenue Service, for a greater part of today, completely shut down the Ika Ika Oqua market in Calabar Municipality, barring traders from carrying out any form of business activity,…
In a bid to return to Nigeria’s House of Representatives for the third time, www.calitown.com sources in Ugep, Yakurr LGA, Cross River Central, have informed that Bassey Eko Ewa, who represents Yakurr/Abi Federal Constituency in the House, is laying claims to the fact that CRS governor, Liyel Imoke, has given him the go-ahead to run…
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Investigations by www.calitown.com just revealed that most secondary schools in Cross River State are currently milking students and their parents dry, charging an illegal fee and making it compulsory on students writing the ongoing Junior Secodary School Certificate Examination. With a minimum charge of N500 (five hundred naira) per subject, the students are told by…
It is emerging that the attempt by Cross River State governor’s Chief of Staff, Alex Egbona, to occupy the Yakurr/Abi Federal Constituency seat may hit the dust if political feelers on the ground are anything to go by, www.calitown.com can reveal. First, sources on the ground are claiming that Agbo, Egbona’s tribe in Abi, “cannot…
Three local government areas in Cross River State; Abi, Biase and Obudu have emerged winners of the European Union-Niger Delta Support Programme for the implementation of the Union’s pilot projects in the state . At a two-day-self-selection exercise for the eighteen LGAs based on community needs, organized by the state government in collaboration with EU-NDSP,…