Tag: Latest Cross River News

Just when residents of Calabar, capital of Cross River State were warming up to the sudden  disappearance of street kids who had taken up residence at the Atekong junction section of the Marian road, some of the kids made a bold statement this morning by escaping from where officials of the state had relocated them…

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His Excellency, Sen Liyel Imoke, this evening in a press release signed by Secretary to the State Government, Mike Aniah, announced the reinstatement of the Commissioners and Special Advisers, suspended without pay since early December, 2013. Below is the list of those re-instated. COMMISSIONERS: Attah Ochinke Takis Caiafas Edak Iwuchukwu Patricia Endeley Elemi Etowa  SPECIAL…

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The Cross River State University of Technology, CRUTECH, has a student population of 10, 996 (ten thousand, nine hundred and ninety six), scattered across her four campuses; Calabar, Obubra, Ogoja and Okuku, and catered to by 498 academic staff, it has been disclosed to calitown.com. Vice Chancellor of the institution, Prof Eneobong Effiom Eneobong, made…

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It has been revealed to calitown.com that there is a new wave of armed robbery being perpetrated by armed robbers in Calabar and its environs. Using the cover of darkness, in most cases, the robbers attack individuals and families, demanding in the process, the Automated Teller Machine, ATM card(s) of their victims. “When they collected…

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Confirmed prison sources within Nigeria’s prison system have revealed to calitown.com that flamboyant Calabar pastor, VAL ALOYSIUS, is not in Afokang Prison, Calabar, but is presently cooling his heels at the Kuje Maximum Security Prison in Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital. Better known within Calabar and beyond as Pastor Val of the  “MY FATHER, MY FATHER”…

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