Today’s town hall meeting in Cross River North Senatorial District by the PDP’s Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe, who represents the district in the Senate, all but confirmed rumours carried by the winds, all week, that Peter Akpanke, who represents Obudu/Bekwarra/Obanliku Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives on the platform of the PDP, has broken ranks…
Former Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Unical, Zana Itiunbe Akpagu, has suspended his campaign and ambition to contest the Cross River North Senatorial election in 2023 . Akpagu in a signed terse statement sighted by www.calitown.com, maintained that “…after careful consideration of the prevailing circumstances and after wide consultations with family,friends and associates,…
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By Judex Okoro The Cross River North senatorial district is in the eye of the storm. The old Ogoja province made of five local government areas of Ogoja, Yala, Bekwarra, Obudu and Obanliku once noted for its political sophistry and rich cultural heritage has been turned into another political theatre. Presently, the Northern senatorial district occupies…
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By Emma Unah The University of Calabar will during her thirty-second convocation ceremony scheduled for this Saturday award degrees to nine thousand, one hundred and seventy four graduates and also confer honourary degrees on three eminent Nigerians. Zana Akpagu, Professor and Vice Chancellor of the University who disclosed this stated that fifty one students bagged…
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By Idagu Michael Freedom of speech is a beautiful thing; but freedom of careless speech births conspicuous irrational elements that constantly subject us to ritualized false judgments and the award of penalties, long conceived and then applied wrongly. While they are likely to be significant differences in how we apply careless speech freedom, what we…
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Authorities of the University of Calabar, Unical, have terminated the appointment of Peter Agi, the embattled Bursar of the institution, seemingly putting to rest speculations about Agi’s fate in a bitter and protracted conflict that pitched him against the Vice-Chancellor of Unical, Zana Akpagu and invisible individuals within and outside the institution. The termination of…