Former Cross River State governor, Donald Duke, has in a terse statement, addressed issues that appear to have arisen from comments made about him and credited to female politician, Florence Ita-Giwa. Duke wrote: “In human interactions, two factors are sacrosanct, age and authority and even more so in the African context. On both counts, Mma…
Female politician, Florence Ita-Giwa has said with vehemence that she cannot be deputy governor to anybody in Cross River State because her profile “will dwarf the profile of whoever I am deputy to.” She spoke this morning on local radio station, HIT 95.9 FM, Calabar as guest on the “HIT BREAKFAST SHOW”. Ita-Giwa, noted for…
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Reprieve may be coming the way of embattled “Mama Bakassi”, Florence Ita-Giwa, and soft landing gained in the aftermath of her widely reported spat with Cross River State governor, Ben Ayade, over the distribution of relief materials meant for the Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, of Bakassi origin. A top aide to Ayade informed www.calitown.com that…
Self-styled Mama Bakassi, Florence Ita-Giwa has been fingered by a group, Coalition of Bakassi Indigenes, as being behind a serial scheme which has robbed Bakassi indigenes of tons of relief materials sent in by the Federal Government to cushion the deplorable consequences that have come with Nigeria’s ceding of the oil rich peninsula to neighbouring…
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By Mercy Nsa For the first time in several years, former CRS governor, Donald Duke and his wife, Onari, as well as ‘Mama Bakassi’, Florence Ita-Giwa, made no appearance at the 2014 Carnival Calabar, held yesterday, December 27, a situation observers say is a direct outcome of the frosty political relationship that Duke and his…
It looks like the race for the Leopard Town Road office of the governor of Cross River State may be blinding us all to the intense but subtle race for deputy governor of the state. In tune with feelers on the ground and www.calitown.com investigations, we run you down the men and women who are…
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