The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s arrest this week of Frank Ayade , brother of Cross River State governor, Ben Ayade, and the resultant storming of the Ayades residence on Duke Town Close, State Housing Estate, by operatives of the EFCC, appears to have sobered Gov. Ayade, as he looks better poised to discharge his…
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Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, sources late Tuesday evening informed www.calitown.com, visited the personal residence of Cross River State governor, Ben Ayade, on the strength of several petitions written to the anti-corruption agency against the governor and close cronies. When www.calitown.com reporters visited Duke Town Close, in highbrow State Housing Estate, Calabar, where…
Cross River State governor, Ben Ayade, has directed that Gabe Odu Oji, Commissoner for Water Resources and Igile Oju Igile, Managing Director, MD, of the Cross River State Water Board, proceed on indefinite suspension from office, effective today. When the governor paid an unscheduled visit to the Water Board premises at 9:00am this morning, it…
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In what can be described as his immediate response to enquiries made about why he tendered his resignation as Special Adviser to Cross River State governor, Ben Ayade, erstwhile SA, Ray Ugba Morphy, has just published a damming statement, bluntly calling the Ayade administration, “corrupt”. Morphy who titled his Facebook post, “TO WHOM IT MAY…
Undeshi David Mayor, an aide to Martin Orim, Chief of Staff, COS, to Cross River State governor, Ben Ayade, has informed www.calitown.com that “in the midst of all attempts by faceless persons working to give the COS a bad name, he has nothing to hide and is only committed to discharging his functions to his principal…
The recent arrest of one Peter Akpanke, Rufus Awu and Charles Ikpeme, by the Department of State Services, DSS, in Calabar, Cross River State for allegedly impersonating with intent to defraud the head of a state government transport agency of N10 million, is believed to be at the centre of pressure being currently mounted on Cross…
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