On Sunday, 6th December, 2015 I woke up to check some updates on facebook as I usually do on a daily basis. As the notification page popped up, my eyes were opened to the saddest and soberest realization of that fateful day. My very good friend and brother, Barr Max Ogar had posted a message
INTRODUCTION Climate change is defined as a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is, in addition to natural climate variability, observed over comparable time periods (United Nations, 1992; IPCC, 2007). Threat of global climate change is one of the
John Dewey, an influential American psychologist in the 19th Century said Democracy begins in conversation. In other words talking together is a radical act. Democracy is participation and deliberation. It is about people learning to think together, talk about issues and take action. It is a process of constant conversation amongst stakeholders on matters affecting
Simply unfathomable but that is life… It is flighty and a mist! I never knew Barrister Matthew Ojua was ill at all. It was only about Wednesday last week that Ambassador Akpang Obi Odu told me when he visited me in my office that Barrister Ojua was gravely ill in a hospital in South Africa.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Bakassi Deep Sea Port is one of two signature projects of the Sen. Prof. Ben. Ayade’s administration, the other being the 260 km Bakassi Katsina-ala super highway which will serve as the evacuation corridor for the sea port. The Bakkassi Deep Sea Port is planned to be located at the shore of
Traveling recently on transit through Accra airport, gave me hope Africa would get it right someday. One thing I have come to learn over time is that the society has a way of shaping her peoples degree of integrity. Arriving Accra, I needed to make a call, I found a young boy selling recharge cards,
First, it was Senator Donald Dick Etiebet, Senator in the Second Republic, 1979 to 1983,Governor of old Cross River State (now Cross River and Akwa Ibom States) in July. Then Dr. Mathaias Oko Offoboche, renowned academic, outstanding Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, respected politician, Deputy Governor of the old Cross River State on the same ticket with
There is this saying “jack of all trade, master of none.” This has been the case in Cross River state. The policy “direction less-ness” of the Cross River state government. The Cross River state educational sector has consistently been fundamentally misdirected, suffering mostly from misleads of our poorly considered educational policy especially in this present