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Updated GIS Map Of CRS Out Soon

May 20, 2014May 20, 2014 Admin No Comments

Director-General of the Cross River Geographical Information Agency, CRGIA, Kenneth Oshaka, has exclusively informed www.calitown.com that before the 2014 Calabar Christmas Carnival, his agency hopes to deliver Geographical Information System, GIS, maps of the state to help tourists effortlessly find their way around the state, show them tourist areas in the state and help them…

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CR Head of Service Labours To Explain Computer Policy, But…

May 19, 2014May 20, 2014 Admin No Comments

In what can be referred to as an attempt to justify the Cross River State Government’s commitment to forcefully giving civil servants in the state laptops, Head of Service, Mary Theresa Ikwen has this morning on state owned CRBC-TV breakfast show, “Good Morning Cross River”, anchored by Erim Egar, insisted that in pegging the price…

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CR’s Computers For Civil Servants, Matters Arising

May 17, 2014May 17, 2014 Admin 1 Comment

In what is referred to in Cross River State as the “Civil Servants Computer Acquisition Programme” and further that a letter with reference no, GO/HOS/591/Vol III/69, signed by a Permanent Secretary, Emeka Inaku, is requesting Commissioners in CRS to go to the office of the Head of Service for the collection of laptops on specified…

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The Nigerian Ideology And The National Conference

May 17, 2014May 17, 2014 Admin No Comments

In some climes, humanity and development mean everything. But in ours, politics and religion has replaced everything. Some of us have watched our steady decline from citizenship to partisanship and in this, one thing is constant – political interest. They don’t really care about us, do they? There is not regard for sanctity of flesh…

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A’Ibom: Bloodletting Ahead Of 2015 Elections

May 14, 2014 Admin No Comments

Politically-motivated murders have been on the rise in the countdown to the 2015 general elections in Akwa Ibom, ETIM EKPIMAH reports The sobriquet of Akwa Ibom is “The Land of Promise.” Indeed, Akwa Ibom is the short form of Akwa Abasi Ibom, which means “God’s own state.” But recent political happenings have shown that the…

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Salary Deductions In CR Civil Service, Facts Emerge

May 14, 2014 Admin 3 Comments

While workers in the Cross River State Civil Service from Grade Level 07 to 16 silently resent the decision of the Office of the Head of Service, CRS, to compulsorily deduct their salaries under the guise of providing them with laptops, www.calitown.com investigations reveal that civil servants affected by this compulsory deductions may be paying…

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