While sources inside Nigeria’s apex bank, the Central Bank of Nigeria, have confirmed to www.calitown.com that Cross River State has received a princely N7.856bn as bail-out funds, with a rider from the CBN that governors must “prioritise salary payments before other obligations”, it appears that the Cross River State Government and the Labour Union in…
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Sources within the Labour movement in Cross River State have informed www.calitown.com that if the Cross River State Government does not act, and fast too, it may bear the brunt of a crippling strike action to be embarked upon by civil servants in the state. Already, plans have been concluded by Labour to down tools…
Tragedy struck in Big Qua, Calabar, Monday afternoon when an unemployed young man, simply identified as Emman, stabbed to death another young man in his mid-twenties, incidentally also called Emman in circumstances that are still fuzzy, www.calitown.com can reveal. The stabbing which was to the neck, occurred at about several minutes to three O’clock and…
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Sources in Ugep, Yakurr Local Government Area have informed www.calitown.com that parts of the private residence of the His Royal Majesty, the Obol Lopon of Ugep, Obol Ofem Ubana Eteng, went up in flames days ago, seriously injuring three of his children and sister-in-law, while two other boys sustained minor injuries while trying to escape…
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While these fifteen refuse trucks have remained parked in front of the Governor’s Office in Calabar for several days now, refuse heaps continue to build in several parts of the city, threatening to turn Calabar into the dirtiest state capital in Nigeria. Can someone do something? The Cross River Geographic Information Agency,CRGIA, has all the…
By Ubi Okoi Early Saturday morning, residents of Beebobsco area, Murtala Muhammed highway, Calabar Municipality, Cross River State, woke up to the blood-caked grizzly body of a young man believed to be in his early twenties, suspected to have been killed overnight in circumstances thought to be related to the current spate of cult-related killings…