Apparently irked by the defection of former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Venatius Ikem to the All Progressives Congress, APC, a few Cross Riverians have taken to Ikem’s Facebook wall, to express their displeasure, even pouring invectives on his person, www.calitown.com can reveal. Ikem had set the ‘fire’ ball rolling when…
Executive Secretary, Ugep Urban Develpoment Authority, UUDA, Samuel Bassey, has exclusively informed www.calitown.com that his office will in the next one week commence the towing and impounding of immovable vehicles parked in the area as well as those parked at unauthorized places in Ugep, the Yakurr local Government headquarters. Bassey is also insisting that this…
A horde of PDP politicians in Cross River State led by state governor, Ben Ayade, on January 1, 2016, converged in Itigidi, Abi LGA, at the instance of former governor, Liyel Imoke, to continue the traditional January 1 hosting and feasting of politicians started and made into a political ritual by Liyel Imoke. As the…
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Large parts of Calabar, the Cross River State capital are presently at a standstill as the metropolis stages the 2015 Calabar Carnival, www.calitown.com can authoritatively report. The major carnival route; Calabar Road through Mary Slessor Road unto Marian Road, MCC, and the Murtala Muhammed highway have been closed to vehicular movement by heavily armed security…
By Eval Asikong In this part of our society, youth have been kept out of the affairs of their generation for so long. When it concern governance and politics, it is the same retirees of the spent generation that are often recycled. They use experience as their defensive mechanism to keep the youth at bay,…
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While the Cross River State government has put in her best efforts in trying to stage the 2015 Calabar Carnival, it has been discovered that the biting fuel scarcity in the country, may bar many people from making it to Africa’s biggest street party, set to hold on Monday, December 28, 2015. Painfully, it was…
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