The feud between the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Zana Akpagu and the institution’s bursar, Peter Agi, took a turn for the worst this morning as students of the institution protested for and against the feuding two and only the intervention of security agents prevented a law and order breakdown in the institution, www.calitown.com…
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On the “Hit Breakfast Show” on local FM station, HIT 95.9 FM, Cross River State chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Edim Inok, has submitted that all those who have pitched tents with the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state are members of the PDP who left the PDP out of anger because…
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What could have been the latest in a series of communal clashes that have recently plagued Cross River State was averted this past Sunday as the police in Ikom, arrested one Vic Oru, the principal suspect in the murder of Ekor Ebonom, a 46 year old mother of three, who was brutally murdered in her…
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Cross River State born lawyer, activist and Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Prosecutions, Okoi Ofem Obono-Obla, has been appointed into the board of the Nigeria Communications Commission, NCC. Obla who spoke with www.calitown.com, late Wednesday evening, confirmed that the information on his appointment to the NCC board was conveyed to him from the…
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Ikpi Ikpi Akpama, Chairman of Yakurr Local Government Area, Cross River Central Senatorial district, it appears has refused to be drawn into a face-off with critics who have roundly criticized him “for abandoning the local council area” immediately the Nko/Mkpani communal clash began. Akpama’s highest profile critic from the area so far, Wilfred Inah, a…
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Anger and uneasy calm has gripped the Cross River Geographic Information Agency, CRGIA, as staff of the agency approach a landmark eight months without salaries, www.calitown.com can inform. Our investigations show that the anger situation has been heightened too by the recent disclosure that management staff of the agency are owed no salaries while all…