The Deputy Governor of Cross River State, His Excellency Rt. Hon. Peter Agbe Odey, PhD, recently concluded a five-day official tour across the five Local Government Areas of Northern Cross River – Bekwarra, Obanliku, Obudu, Ogoja, and Yala. The tour, held in commemoration of their 2025 New Yam Festivals, a cherished tradition in these agrarian
Information like Certificates of Origin, Birth certificates, Death certificates, Marriage certificates, etc which are statutorily issued by LGAs, are widely needed by citizens spread far and wide, to beat so many hurdles
in the media, conversations about the proposed state are being framed less around economic blueprints, vision and plans, and more around zoning, capital siting, and who gets what or becomes what.
The communal war between Obudu people in Cross River State and their Tiv neighbors in Benue State is said to be over 75 years old. Yet these two are very closely interwoven in numerous aspects of their daily lives. In recent times, they farm together, they intermarry, they buy and sell in the same markets,
What I want to write now is not new. It’s what I have been saying all along. Ogoja State may never come to pass, at least, not in my lifetime. You don’t have to believe me. Just wait and see. Those who are deceiving you will not tell you this. They want to continue spiking
Try and have a conversation about development, (not politics), with some of those people you call capacity leaders and notice somethings. The first challenge is that the followers themselves don’t even have a full grasp of what development entails. So even the people, who are mostly timid and sycophantic, can hardly have the courage or
I do not think that there is anyone who has been able to develop the ability to tell when exactly they fall sleep. We all can tell when we went to bed. But there is that moment when your eyes close by themselves and you fall asleep. No one knows that moment. That moment is
You know we are usually forbidden from thinking in a manner that appears like you are questioning God. But matter-of-factly, God is always available for questioning, which is why he left us with so many things that we do not know and he expects us to seek to know. Besides that, if we do not