Former Cross River State governor, Clement Ebri, says he is pleased with www.calitown.com for the high level of professionalism displayed in news gathering and reporting, and has additionally commended what the online news medium has come to represent over time, making it clear that this is an outfit several individuals go to when they want…
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Three years ago, on February 11, 2017, Betta Edu, (at that time the Director-General, Primary Health Care Development Agency, PHCDA) was my radio guest on #ThePublicView on HIT 95.9 FM, Calabar. As the interaction wore on, the versatile answers she provided to the questions I asked her on the live radio programme were outrightly commendable….
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Okoi Ofem Obono-Obla was recently removed from office as Chairman of the Special Presidential Panel on the Recovery of Public Property in circumstances that still appear fuzzy and stacked against him. After several attempts, Iwara U. Iwara, publisher and editor of www.calitown.com, tracked down Obla and had a short no-holds barred interview with him. Excerpts:…
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1982 was the last time I saw him. He was my school father and had just finished writing his School Certificate examination that year. Nobody told me why he was called Alade or it was just that, I didn’t at that time, possess the capacity and presence of mind to ask him why he bore…
It is unsettling and scary that several weeks after top notch Calabar based broadcaster, Petertex Etim, was abducted by unknown persons, in Calabar, he is yet to regain his freedom, just like verifiable information about his ordeal has remained hard to get. As a professional journalist largely functioning in Cross River State and having severally…
First published in April 2016 on www.calitown.com, this article written by IWARA IWARA, x-rayed the Ben Ayade vs. Vena Ikem political feud, bringing to light painful truths in an unbiased essay. There often will be very little innocence in the fistful desire of two fighting brothers; one strong, the other stronger. Amazingly, the strength they…
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