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Death Sentence And Political Economy Of Kidnapping In Cross River: Contradictions And Possibilities BY OBASESAM OKOI

The recent law prescribing death penalty for perpetrators of kidnapping in Cross River emerged as a dominant, mainstream thriller that shocked the conscience of society. While I condemn kidnapping in its entirety, I would argue however that the new law is not human rights compliant especially when mirrored against the nature of crime and its

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Reality Of A Non-Oil Economy In Cross River State: Prospects And Challenges – Part 2 BY EMMANUEL ETIM

This is the concluding part of a two part treatise started last week. BEING TEXT OF SPEECH DELIVERED AT THE CROSSRIVERWATCH 3RD ANNIVERSARY LECTURE ON THE THEME “REALITY OF A NON-OIL ECONOMY IN CROSS RIVER STATE; PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES” PART 2 Beyond the effort to develop the different sectors of the state economy to serve

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100 Days In Office: Obono Obla’s Jaundiced Assessment Of Governor Ayade BY CHRISTIAN ITA

A few days ago, precisely on September 1, Okoi Obono Obla was on air, this time on Channels Television, where his outing on the station’s breakfast show, Sunrise Daily, offered a glum study in self-contradiction. If his aim on that fateful morning was to offer further explanations to those who have wrongly or otherwise accused

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Right Of Reply: The Skewed Comparison Between Ayade And Wike – A Smoke Screen BY EVAL ASIKONG

I was busy attending to state’s matters of pressing concern, when my attention was drawn to an article written by one of these social media touts who, like a few others, is looking for recognition in Governor Ayade’s government. The article, being so flawed in grammar and content, is intended to make a mockery of

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Why You Should Consider Dating A Calabar Girl BY SHERIFF

Alright, I know what you all are thinking and that’s definitely one of the reasons why you should date a Calabar girl. My last writeup regarding why Yoruba Boys should be top of your list of guys to date got quite a few knocks but I guess people generally agreed they are the best (I’m

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Governor Ayade’s 100 Days In Office, An Appraisal BY OKOI OBONO OBLA

On the 29th May 2015, in a pomp ceremony held in the so called Calabar International Conference Center, the Honourable Chief Judge of the High Court of Cross River State, honourable Justice Okoi Ikpi Itam, administered the mandatory Oath of Office and Oath of Allegiance on Senator Ben Ayade to become the 4th elected Governor

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100 Days In Office: Governor Ben Ayade Of Cross River Vs Governor Nyesom Wike Of Rivers BY IFERE PAUL

The hype that occasioned the emergence of the Professor, Senator, and now Governor of Cross River State has died down. What looks like scepticism has replaced enthusiasm. Online media propagandists of the governor have since withered like dead leaves carried by wind down the bottom of the mother tree. Their impatience to hit the ground

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Una See This Road? BY JONATHAN UGBAL

I told CrossRiverWatch Ukung’s Alawa on telephone after reading her piece titled ‘Who owns these roads’ that unless a visionary takes the mantle of leadership and Cross Riverians take charge of the electoral process as well as the evaluation, implementation and monitoring of projects, we will continuously see a microscopic few with a bourgeois mentality

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