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While the signs have been there all of last week, www.calitown.com can confirm that there is a gun battle raging on the ground right now between the Usumutong and Ediba communities in Abi LGA. Sources on the line from the area say the renewed violence is not unconnected with the reported loss of an Ediba…

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In what is rightly a scene of sorrow, tears and blood, lots of people are still crying and wailing in Ugep, Yakurr LGA following the early morning crushing to death of three persons, a motorcyclist and the two female passengers he was carrying. Eye witnesses say the trailer, coming from Calabar may have been speeding…

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Just weeks after Usumutong and Ediba communities of Abi LGA were in the news for the wrong reasons, www.calitown.com can reveal that there are new security threats in the LGA and sources on the ground are concerned that something needs to be done so that the situation does not become another unfortunate case. On the…

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Calitown.com can reveal that Okoi Inyang Ofem Okpebri, one time Auditor-General for Local Government in Cross River State is dead. Reputed to be an astute financial accounting officer whose insistence on getting things rightly done pitched him agaimst the government of that time, passed away in Calabar, after a brief illness this past Saturday, family…

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