A young man in his thirties was late Tuesday night arrested by a police patrol team, after a distress call was put out, as a group of men suspected to be armed robbers terrorized residents of a section of Ekorim I, a high brow area in Calabar Municipality. The suspects are believed to have commenced…
Confirmed sources inside the Calabar Office of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, say the Police in Calabar have nabbed a few suspected individuals with links to Saturday night’s theft at the FIRS office, opposite the Margaret Ekpo International airport, Calabar. The office, close to the Airport Police Station is said to have been broken…
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As the three year tenure of elected local government council officials in Cross River State winds down on December 14, 2016, officials in the third-tier of government are uncertain if the state government will commit to clearing a backlog of financial entitlements owed them, www.calitown.com can reveal. Besides being owed salaries, “an entitlement like our…
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Confirmed Ecobank Calabar sources have informed www.calitown.com that contrary to news that made the rounds late Wednesday afternoon into the night, that there was a robbery attempt on the Mary Slessor, Calabar branch of Ecobank, the situation responsible for the security cordon around the area today was not a robbery. “What happened was that a…
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Cross River State governor, Ben Ayade, arrived Calabar today from Abuja, weeks after he left the state to attend to issues not unrelated to the legal tussle with Joe Agi at the Supreme Court, Abuja. At the Margaret Ekpo International Airport, Calabar, hordes of supporters, mobilized and drafted to the airport, from across the 18…
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Professor Gabriel Ikpi, the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Academics, in the Cross River University of Technology, CRUTECH, was yesterday evening shot by unknown persons who attempted to abduct him,www.calitown.com can reveal. Security operatives who spoke with www.calitown.com are insisting that the suspects attempted the kidnap so a ransom can be collected. Luck was on the side…