A fan of mine asked the question above. In an attempt to come to his level and make him understand my answers, I used a personal experience that happened in 2013 as an illustration. “It was lunch time in 2013 then working with Concourse group, I went downstairs the Concourse towers were my office was
By Our Correspondent Cross River State governor, Senator Ben Ayade, has disclosed that the construction of the Calabar garment factory will be completed in two months. The governor who disclosed this to news men during the inspection of the project site along Goodluck Jonathan Bypass, said the garment factory is one of the projects earmarked
By CrossRiverWatch admin Cross River State governor, Senator Ben Ayade, has said that the proposed state owned seaport in Calabar, when completed, will generate in excess of three hundred billion Naira for the State annually. The Governor who promised to appoint a transaction adviser for the project after his return from his oversea trip added
I met Princewill Odidi on Facebook in 2014. Our interaction developed from a strong emotional affinity created by our intellectual passions for similar questions. Odidi is a brilliant scholar and professional who writes intelligently and shares regularly, ideas that I find very insightful. That I am compelled to read, re-read, and respond to his article
Cocoa which belongs to the family Steruliacaea and genus Theobroma was discovered in 18th century at the Amazon basin and later spread to other tropical areas of South and Central America, and West Africa. Since the end of the First World War, West Africa has been the highest producer of cocoa. The crop was eventually
Upon resuming office as Executive Governor Cross River State, it is widely assumed that Ayade’s proposed signature projects would be the Highway and the Seaport, but from a developmental projection, I would rather opine, that the proposed garment factory if properly executed would outshine every other initiative, and would be termed “The real signature”. This
By Solomon Asha Renowned Calabar based entrepreneur, Richard Akinaka has advocated the need for the Senator Ben Ayade led administration in Cross River State to organize an Investors Summit to chart the right course for the development of the state. Akinaka who is the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of Abitto Global Services Limited, a multi-dimensional company
16 years ago I attended a conference at York University in Canada, we conducted a field survey on black kids in Rexdale and Regent Park Toronto. In the survey, we asked them a straight question: what comes to your mind if the word “Africa” is mentioned? Their answers centered mostly on hungry looking children with