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Metro Hotel Blast: Driver Refutes Media Story

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Contrary to reports in the media that a blast from the Calabar Transcorp Metro Hotel fire of last Friday, which consumed all of the hotel’s multi-million naira power plants, was responsible for the car crash involving an 18-seater bus with registration number, XA 946 ZLL, belonging to the Akwa Ibom Transport Corporation, AKTC, the driver…

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Val’s Day Tragedy, Fire Takes Down Part Of Cal Transcorp Metro

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In circumstances that are yet to be made clear, parts of Calabar’s Transcorp Metro Hotel, this evening went up in flames to the consternation of onlookers and the general public, calitown.com can reveal. The inferno which lasted for more than two hours, completely ate up the two giant-size generators servicing the hotel, throwing all of…

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A Val’s Day Walk In Calabar!

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Red they say is the color of fire and blood, and also of energy, war, danger, strength, power, determination as well as passion, desire, and love. It has even been referred to as an emotionally intense color with a very high visibility. Red is the predominant colour this afternoon as the calitown.com crew drives round…

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When NUJ Cross River State Summoned Crossriverwatch

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I was scrolling through my spam mails a few days ago and I saw one of them that was a not spam. It was a summon from the Nigerian Union of Journalists, Cross River State Council. The Union in the letter was summoning CrossRiverWatch to appear before the Ethics and Disciplinary Committee to explain why…

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First Bank Targets JAAC, Observers Plead For Caution

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Perhaps to show that they are a step ahead in what has become a ritual for bank’s in Nigeria, First Bank of Nigeria Plc, targeted yesterday’s Joint Account and Allocation Committee , JAAC, meeting in Calabar, the CRS capital, for a lunch date, considered by many to be a Greek gift, for the 18 local…

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Former LG Chair Wants N33million From Yala LGA

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Former chairman of Yala Local Government Council,  Gab Ugor is through his lawyers, asking the local council he just left as helmsman to pay him a whooping N33 million for undisclosed claims. Ugor who has been guest of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for perceived sundry financial irregularities, shortly after leaving office, is…

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