The Okuni community in Ikom Local Government Area, Cross River Central, has been thrown into tension and mourning after a young man believed to be in his mid twenties, simply identified to www.calitown.com as Ntibor and known popularly in the area as “Blaq Samy”, drowned in the river running through the community. Competent sources in…
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Senator representing Cross River Central Senatorial District, Eteng Jonah Williams, has cleared the outstanding medical bills of 21 patients and newborns at the Holy Family Joint Hospital, Ikom. The beneficiaries, who had been discharged but remained hospitalized due to an inability to pay, were finally released after the senator’s timely intervention. Williams said the gesture…
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Nigeria’s Minister of State for Industry, John Owan Enoh, has expressed joy for being part of a retinue of government officials and other people at the flag off ceremony “for the construction of the much-anticipated Ikom-Etomi-Agbokim Waterfalls road, Cross River State, which took place yesterday.” Enoh who took to his verified Facebook page to express…
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Okuni, the sleepy, riverside community in Ikom LGA, Cross River State, is still in shock after a man, identified by the police as 30-year old Amba Ubung, inflicted multiple, life threatening matchet cuts on his girlfriend, Blessing Onawu, after he didn’t see her on February 14, 2024, to celebrate St. Valentine’s Day with him. At…
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We can reliably confirm that a communal clash between Ochon community in Obubra LGA and Alesi community in Ikom LGA, of Cross River State, has erupted late Monday evening with scores of persons dead or wounded and others sustaining life threatening injuries. Samuel (who does not want his surname in print), speaking with us from…
On the heels of the widely reported feud between cattle herders and youths of Nde community in Ikom LGA, Cross River Central, Elvert Ayambem, who represents Ikom II State Constituency in the Cross River State House of Assembly, has reacted sharply to insinuations in certain quarters that the story may be untrue. In a statement…
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