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The Essence of Government And The Role Of The Civil Service BY VENATIUS IKEM

By CrossRiverWatch Admin Yesterday, I wrote in my piece on this platform, Our Tenured god etc, where I posited that rather than appointing useless money sharing behemoths in the name of boards of non existing government agencies , government should rather be employing fresh hands into the civil service to enhance and regenerate it for

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ITM Ugep And The Death Of A Good Vision BY OBASESAM OKOI

CrossRiverWatch Admin I have given some thoughtfulness to the suffering of students, faculty, and non-teaching staff at ITM, Ugep, before crafting this message. I write not as a public intellectual but as a man with an uncommon dream to establish a private university in the near future and develop it to a world class model

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Oh, Mountain Man Is Gone BY NANDI BETTE

By mid November, it will be one year, since “the face of Obudu Ranch” took the final bow out of planet earth. And no one seemed to have heard. Born approximately about a hundred and nineteen years ago in 1897, as guessed by close family sources, OBOH, AUGUSTINE USHAGA grew to become one of the

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Campaign Of Calumny Against Ayade A Failed Venture BY BEULAH ASUQUO

By CrossRiverWatch Admin It is natural for people to constantly criticize those in power and authority whether they be elected officials, political appointees, heads of departments and so on. Undoubtedly, It is not out of place for citizens to criticize their leaders as policies and programmes deployed by those in authority directly or indirectly affects

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Governor Ayade To The Rescue Of APC And Matters Arising BY VENATIUS IKEM

By CrossRiverWatch Admin It is interesting that as part of Governor Ayade’s survival strategy he yesterday made a presentation to one unsuspecting very senior member of the President Buhari’s government that his travails are as a result of his dogged support of APC in Cross River State which has pitched him against the Governors of

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Joe Agi vs. Ayade: PDP Cannot Approbate And Reprobate At The Same Time BY NEHEMIAH ABANG

By CrossRiverWatch admin I have read with laughter the commentaries that followed the stage performance that played out in the last Supreme Court sitting in the above case. I will not attempt to pre-empt the outcome of the case as this will be prejudicial to the administration of Justice and unprofessional. But am constrained to

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Mr. Attorney General Sir! The Court Room Is Not Firing Squad BY AGBA JALINGO

By CrossRiverWatch admin Mr. Joseph Oshie Abang, the Cross River state Attorney General is not a particularly well known man. Apart from a few reports in Vanguard newspaper, CrossRiverWatch.com and the state owned Chronicle, a simple google search has no information about him prior to his appointment apart from a paid Vconnect link to a

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Pragmatic And Charismatic Leadership With Empathy: The Ayade Style BY SOLOMON ASHA

The act of leadership and being in a position of power and authority is not all about dishing out orders and commands here and there to subordinates and expecting them to perform miracles which the leader himself could not perform. Being a leader at any position of authority takes more than exuding an air of

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