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
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
I like to thank God and rejoice with His Excellency Professor Benedict Ayade on his thanksgiving ceremony which took place in his village, Kakum, in Obudu Local Government Area. The Bible admonishes us to rejoice with those who rejoice and mourn with those who mourn. As I follower of Christ and his teachings, I want
New Yam festival (Bipam bifefe) is a common celebration among the Agba people – comprising of Bette, Bekwarra, Bendi, Alege and Igede and others due to political affiliations. ‘New Yam festival’ is an anglicized nomenclature of what was originally known as “Bewhutang”. This old name has generated a lot of arguments among Christian believers who
INTRODUCTION The ceding of Bakassi Peninsula by Nigeria to Cameroun on October 9, 2012 following the International Court of Justice judgment in 2002 and the loss of the oil wells to Akwa Ibom State through the Nigerian Supreme Court judgment of 2012 are two events that mark a turning point for Cross River State. These
The Vanguard news of 22rd August, caught my attention with this opening statement” PREGNANT Women, nursing mothers, physically challenged persons and university graduates were among the nine thousand applicants who, Saturday morning, thronged the U.J Esuene Sports Stadium to compete for one thousand job placements in the green state Police scheduled to oversee the state’s
In 2013, my company in partnership with the Cross River State Government through the Department of Mineral Resources, Governors Office, Calabar and the Calabar Chamber of Commerce and Industries, Mines and Agriculture (CALCIMA) organized the first Nigeria International Conference on Mineral Resources (NICOM 2013) in Calabar. The conference brought together experts and stakeholders in the
Recently I did an article elaborately on whether Governor Ayade can prove to be a man of his own or a surrogate imposed on the people by the conservative cabal in Cross River politics. However, as events keeps unfolding, his administrative policies have sparked the urgent need of advisers not necessarily as his cabinet members