VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED! A suspected armed robber was in the early hours of Thursday, August 24, 2018, badly beaten and burnt to death in Ikom, Cross River Central, after he attempted to rob a commercial motorcyclist, www.calitown.com can report. Our source in Ikom who sent in an eye witness report maintained that the suspect,…
Public power distribution firm, the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company, came under fire in Ikom, Central Cross River, as several residents of the area took to the streets today and demonstrated against the complete absence of public power in the area. Our correspondent in the area reported that several group of persons marched to the…
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It was a touching scene early Wednesday morning as a five year old male child, identified simply as Chidera, drowned while swimming in the Atimaka stream, a tributary emptying into the Cross River in Ikom, Cross River Central. Helen Takon, an Ikom resident who spoke with www.calitown.com, late this evening, explained that the young lad…
For the Akparabong community in Ikom Local Government Area and their Bendeghe Ekim neighbours in Etung Local Government Area, Cross River central, these are not the best of times as both communities are presently engaged in a communal clash, www.calitown.com has been informed. Sources in the area say the communal clash is tied to a…
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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For inhabitants of Four Corners, Ikom, CR Central, words are yet to describe the mood in the commercial centre, following the discovery of 23-year-old Martha Ojogu’s body, believed to have been gruesomely murdered in very murky circumstances, www.calitown.com can reveal. Reported to have been missing for close to one week, a search party is said…
