It has been revealed to www.calitown.com by government sources that the Cross River State Government is sinking N3.6 billion into setting up the mono rail system, running from the ongoing Calabar International Convention Centre, CICC, to the Tinapa Resort to help reduce the time it will take to commute between the two places. “If you…
Figures released in Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal capital and made available to www.calitown.com, show that in the computed list of the 10 best performing states in the West African Examinations Council conducted Senior School Certificate Examination, CRS scored 55.3% to come fifth, behind Lagos, Rivers, Abia and Anambra states who scored 56.03%, 58.3%, 65.1% and 67.8%…
Sources within the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in Cross River State have told calitown.com that the statement, “I don’t know who will be governor come 2015, but I know who will not be and the person who will be governor will not be an outsider but a member of the PDP family …”, credited to state governor, Liyel Imoke, is a clear indication that the governor and his acolytes may have perfected plans to play God and tinker with the 2015 gubernatorial elections in CRS.
Figures available to calitown.com reveal that a little above 10, 000 men and women took part in the Nigeria Immigration Service recruitment exercise conducted at the Federal Government Girls College, Calabar, this past Saturday.
In an exercise that has been nationally criticized for the hardships candidates had to go through in the course of taking part in the exercise, theCalabar centre was no different as the exercise billed to commence at 08.00am, began at 1.45pm. Calitown.com sources further revealed men security personnel drafted to the venue, had a field day assaulting candidates under the guise of making them carry out instructions.
Cross River State governor, Liyel Imoke, has directed that in the event that the processes leading up to the issuance of certificates of occupancy by the Cross River Geographic Information, CRGIA, take more than the 21 days advertised on the Agency’s fliers, staff of the Agency charged with this responsibility should be queried.
Imoke gave the directive, late Wednesday evening when he embarked on his maiden visit to the CRGIA in Calabar. He added that this directive has become neccessary to help create an agency that will in turn create value for the land assets that people have. He described his visit to the CRGIA as a symbolic exercise basically done to create awareness for the unit and draw the attention of indigenes and non-indigenes “to the best local technology available, integrating and engaging young men and women to help ease land ownership”. Minimum standards he added, “will be defined and compliance enforced through relevant ministries of government”.
Like in most other parts of Nigeria, the petrol situation in Calabar, CRS is dire, calitown.com can reveal. In most petrol stations selling the product the city, long queues are visible as vehicle owners struggle to lay hands on petrol. The situation has also shot up the price of petrol as stations are selling at…