Asuquo Ekpenyong Jr, senator representing Cross River South Senatorial District, has published a written rejection to a political suggestion being made that someone of Cross River South extraction must gird his loins and snatch the state gubernatorial ticket from incumbent governor, Bassey Edet Otu, in the 2027 elections. Austin Ibok, a former aide to former…
The Bakassi Deep Seaport project -initially envisioned as a transformative development for Cross River State – is now under serious scrutiny for being unviable and potentially misaligned with the state’s best interests. Despite the state government’s signing of an agreement to advance the project on September 20, 2024, my ongoing investigation and background checks have…
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Self-styled Mama Bakassi, Florence Ita-Giwa has been fingered by a group, Coalition of Bakassi Indigenes, as being behind a serial scheme which has robbed Bakassi indigenes of tons of relief materials sent in by the Federal Government to cushion the deplorable consequences that have come with Nigeria’s ceding of the oil rich peninsula to neighbouring…
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Yesterday, January 2, 2017, large parts of Calabar, the Cross River State capital, stood still for hours as the TIN-KORI-KOR masquerade carnival hit the streets. See a small selection of pictures from the massive event that www.calitown.com has put together.
State chairman of the Labour Party, LP, in Cross River State, Austin Ibok has lamented the despicable and shameful manner in which PDP members are defecting to the APC. In a statement in Calabar, Ibok wondered if most of the defectors would have considered joining APC if the 2015 presidential elections was won by the…
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While Cross Riverians are yet to come to terms with Sunday’s abduction of Dominic Aqua Edem, the Labour Party’s House of Representatives candidate for Calabar South/ Bakassi and Akpabuyo Federal Constituency by unknown persons, Austine Ibok, CR Labour Party chairman is insisting that “those who have abducted our candidate should understand that you cannot kidnap…
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