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22 Await Death In Calabar Prison

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Calitown.com investigations have revealed that the Calabar Prisons in Afokang, Calabar South LGA, has 22 persons on death row. While 12 inmates are serving life sentences, the 22 on death row were convicted for various offences, ranging from first degree murder to armed robbery but are awaiting state governor, Liyel Imoke’s nod, for the execution…

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CR LG: Councillors Demand Thousands Of Naira To Screen Appointees

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As the screening of the recently announced Executive council members for the 17 local government councils in Cross River State begin this week, it has emerged that huge financial sums have been pegged as clearance fees by the respective legislative houses in the LGAs, whose function it is to screen and seal the appointments, calitown.com…

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Work Stalls ITM Ugep Resumption

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It is emerging that unless something magical happens, the Cross River State Institute of Technology and Management, Ugep,  will suffer another postponement in the date earlier proposed for her opening  and commencement of academic activities, calitown.com can reveal. While government has demonstrated a commitment to getting the school off the ground running, structural limitations are glaring setbacks for anyone…

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10 Most Dangerous Places To Live In

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1. Kabul, Afghanistan No amount of US intervention and troops on the ground has rescued Afghanistan and its capital Kabul, from being the world’s most dangerous place to live in. Bomb attacks on hotels and embassies are common place with the security forces struggling to restore some semblance of order. The Taliban are gaining ground….

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Paper Qualification Delays LG Exco Constitution

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While calitown.com can confirm that in a matter of days, the Executive arm of the 17 newly sworn-in local government administrations in Cross River State will be constituted and sworn-in, it has it too from impeccable government sources that the delay in constituting the Executive arm is not unconnected with a few discrepancies that nearly…

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PDP, Gershom Bassey And CR’s North

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I had written earlier that there is a subtle leadership crisis rocking the Cross River Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, concerning which part of the State should produce its Governorship Candidate for the 2015 elections. Until this moment nobody has refuted my story or the permutations in the story. The PDP’s silence has…

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