Tag: Latest Cross River News

Today, at the Executive Council Chambers, Governor’s Office, Calabar, Cross River State, Senator Liyel Imoke, state governor, will swear-in 14 new permanent secretaries, recently appointed and announced in a release signed by Mike Aniah, Secretary to the State Government. The swearing-in initially scheduled to take place tomorrow, January 14, 2014, was brought forward because of…

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Three persons, Ezubuche Paulinus, Tobias Ekwonwa and Ebenezer Okafor, are to remain in prison custody at the Afokang Prison, Calabar, on the orders of a Chief Magistrate in Cross River State. Chief Magistrate Adomi E. Adomi of Magistrate Court 1, remanded the three for willfully and unlawfully conspiring to destroy a government seal at the…

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There was a mild drama lasting three hours, this past Wednesday, at the Cross River State High Court No. 5, said to be presided over by the Hon. Justice Obojor Ogar. Calitown.com sources say, Joe Agi, SAN, had arrived the Court to attend to a matter but put his matter temporarily on hold, when he…

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Sorrow, tears and blood were the name of the game early this morning as two commercial vehicles, one bound for Calabar and the other, headed in the opposite direction, had a head on collision which left scores of commuters either dead or seriously wounded. Calitown.com on the ground sources say the driver of the Calabar…

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It has emerged that the decision of the Chairman of Obudu Local Government Area, Emmanuel Ugbe, to spend the Christmas and New Year holidays in Calabar instead of in Obudu, has not gone down well with his constituents. On condition of anonymity, one source told calitown.com that “he was not elected to stay in Calabar,…

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The following have been appointed Permanent Secretaries in the Cross River State Civil Service. 1. Freedom Edward Ejom 2. Perpetua Samuel Aji 3. Clement Eta Ntui 4. Susan Nyong Bassey 5. Inaku Emeka 6. John Osang Odock 7. Edem Edem Ita 8. Geraldine Akpet-Ekanem 9. Igbe Simeon Aruku 10. Ikong Akwaji Ogbang 11. Helen Brown…

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