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Before Basic Needs Became Luxuries… BY AGBA JALINGO 

The person who built the first car surely did not have luxury in mind. The idea was to facilitate the faster movement of things and persons from place to place. To replace the use of carts and animals with a faster means of transportation. The first self propelled steam engine cart, built by Frenchman, Nicholas

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Sunday Musings: Your Happiness Depends On Others… BY AGBA JALINGO 

Even if you are atheist, you relate with and contemplate on other creatures to derive happiness. Your happiness depends on others. Even if you are the most pious introvert or monk, you still meditate or pray to a superior intelligence or God, to find inner peace. So your happiness depends on others. If it is

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JUST IN: Gunshots Rain Along Vandikya- Obudu Borders

By CrossRiverWatch Admin Information reaching our newsroom has it that there is a rain of gunshots along the borders between Vandikya Local Government Area of Benue State and Obudu Local Government Area of Cross River State. A traveller who is stocked along the route informed CrossRiverWatch. “Please urgently inform our people to suspend traveling through

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VIDEO: We Want Them Out – Women Protest Cattle Herders Farmland Destruction In Cross River 

By Godwin Ajom  Women in Ukpada Community of Bekwarra Local Government Area in Northern Cross River State, have staged a peaceful protest against the activities of cattle herders who they alleged are destroying farmlands and crops. In an amateur video obtained by CrossRiverWatch, the women are seen waving fresh tree branches and leaves protesting the

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Why We Seek Women’s Rights – Stakeholders, Frown At SGBV

By Godwin Ajom Nigeria’s female population, estimated at over 108 million, faces significant hardships, with a poverty rate around 69 percent. Women, particularly those in remote or underrepresented areas, endure the brunt of these challenges, according to the Women’s Rights Advancement and Protection Alternative (WRAPA). During a one-day strategic dialogue in Calabar aimed at bolstering

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UNICROSS Prof. Babson’s 5-year Invention Puts Nigeria On The Map With Award-Winning Ventilator

By Patrick Obia A locally made BMV-6 medical ventilator has been recognized as the third-best innovation in Nigeria at the prestigious Annual Technology Dinner, Innovations Exhibition, and Award Night hosted by the Academy. The ventilator, invented by Prof. Babson Ajibade, a Professor of African Visual Art at the University of Cross River State (UNICROSS), is

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High Court Discard Prayers To Remove Obong Of Calabar, Restraining Governor Otu

By Godwin Ajom The High Court sitting in Calabar, Cross River State, presided by Justice Elias Abua, has thrown out a suit which sought an order of interlocutory injunction to restrain and remove the Obong of Calabar, Edidem Ekpo Okon Abasi-Otu V. Justice Abua held that giving such orders without any tangible reason would do

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