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MP Akpanke Mourns Slain Constituent, Demands Arrest Of Killers

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Member of Parliament, MP, Peter Akpanke, who represents Obanliku/Bekwarra/Obudu Federal Constituency, in Nigeria’s House of Representatives, has mourned the demise of his constituent, Odey Michael Efenji, an undergraduate of the University of Calabar, killed by suspected armed robbers on November 21, 2023, in Calabar, Cross River State. Akpanke, on a visit to the deceased aged…

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Diaspora Organization Donates Multi Million Naira Equipment To Ugep Health Centre

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The Ekoi Association North America, EANA, has donated hospital equipment worth millions of naira to the Model Primary Health Centre, Usene, Ugep, Yakurr LGA, as part of her commitment to help raise primary health care standards in Cross River State. At a public presentation of hospital beds, mattresses, bedsheets, pillows and pillow cases, a giant…

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GSS Calabar School Fracas: C’River Education Commissioner Calls In Police

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Cross River State Education Commissioner, Stephen Odey, has called in the police to take charge, after an amateur video showing students of Government Secondary School Ikot Ansa, Calabar, engaged in a bloody fracas, went viral. Click to watch the video.   Odey who swiftly visited the school early Thursday morning, on the heels of the…

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RIGHT OF REPLY: Ibom Air Says It Has Not Stopped Flights To Calabar

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Akwa Ibom State owned Ibom Air, has maintained that it has not stopped flights to Calabar, contrary to repeated speculations being made that, as an underhand business strategy, it stopped flights into Calabar to help shore up traffic for the composite Christmas festival in Akwa Ibom State. In a memo dated 22nd November, 2023, signed…

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Ibom Air’s Indefinite Suspension Of Flights To Calabar : C’River Dealing With A Dangerously Envious Neighbour

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About two months ago, I wrote about my suspicion that the trending issue of male genital organ disappearance in Calabar, the capital city of Cross River State was a hoax as well as a demarketing strategy targeted at Carnival Calabar and indeed, Cross River State tourism at large. That no allegation was ever proven scientifically…

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Brazil, Turkey, South Africa, Egypt To Participate In 2023 Calabar Carnival

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Brazil, Turkey, South Africa and Egypt have indicated interests to participate in the 2023 Calabar Carnival. Twenty-Six states in Nigeria have also indicated interests to participate in the annual jamboree which has “Season of Sweetness’’ as its theme for 2023. Executive Secretary of the Carnival Commission, Austine Cobham, told newsmen in Calabar on Monday that…

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