The Cross River State Government has approved the release of N18 billion for the rehabilitation and upgrade of major tourism assets, including the Tinapa Business and Leisure Resort, Marina Resort, Obudu Mountain Resort, and Kwa Falls. Thomas Ikpeme, Special Adviser to Governor Bassey Otu on Tourism Development, who made this disclosure in a statement on…
While the Cross River State Government moved swiftly today and resolutely shut down several offices of First Bank Plc in the state, informed sources inside the bank have just informed www.calitown.com that both parties have settled their rift and the bank’s offices will reopen to customers tomorrow. The sealing of First Bank offices in the…
There are indications that the legal battle to free hardline Ben Ayade critic, Paul Oden Ifere, will commence today, Monday, October 23, 2017, with the filing of a motion on notice at the Federal High Court, Abuja, in an application for the enforcement of the fundamental rights of Ifere, www.calitown.com can reveal. We also gathered…
Unrepentant critic of the Ben Ayade administration, life coach and businessman, Ray Ugba Morphy, disclosed on his Facebook page today that he closed down his Sugarland Lounge “… after policemen driving in five Operation Skolombo pickups were sent to harass customers and arrest my staff on trumped up charges obviously as a result of my…
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Okoi Obono-Obla, Senior Special Assistant to Nigeria’s President on Prosecutions, has stirred the nest with a bold post on his Facebook wall early today, accusing the Cross River State Commissioner for Environment, Mike Eraye, of trying to bribe him with a two million naira per month contract to clean up drainages in Calabar South Local…
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Just days after the Peoples Democratic Party, faithful in Cross River State accorded Cross River State governor, Ben Ayade, a rousing welcome after his victory at the Supreme Court, it is emerging that in a bid to outdo each other, pursuant to currying political favours from the state governor, several of the governor’s appointees are…
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