There is growing resentment among civil servants in the Cross River State over what is seen as the arbitrary and unfavourable deductions in staff salaries, carried out by the Office of the Head of Service, www.calitown.com can reveal. By yesterday and today when salary vouchers for the month of April began circulating, most civil servants…
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The Cross River State Government through her Ministry of Finance is racing round the clock to ensure that she continues to receive the monthly N400 million augumentation fund that has in the last two years accrued to her as a result of the loss of the Bakassi Peninsula to neighbouring Cameroun. Since Monday this week,…
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.