After begging the people of Akpabuyo to lead me through their peaceful protest, After swimming through a pool of thick mud and finding my way to dry land, After missing our way and ending up in the dead end of another Bakassi, After trekking long distance because the motorcycle chose a bushy area of all
Empowerment is not the occasional display of items to party men and women to collect, but the full engagement with programs that have the potentials to transform lives and foster new circumstances. Three(3) years of qualitative representation and meaningful Job Empowerment to job seekers in my Constituency with University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, UCTH, Federal
I was really amused when I read in CrossRiverWatch On line what Senator Mathew Mbu said about Governor Liyel Imoke while addressing a cross section of Boki people last week. Senator Mbu has dismissed Governor Imoke as a “Dictator and Emperor” who wants to impose his will, whims and caprices concerning those to lead us
The other day some of my friends were praising President Good luck Jonathan and Liyel Imoke because of the fact that the Minister of Transport, Idris Umar visited Calabar to commission the contract awarded for the commencement of the dredging of the Calabar channel last week. However my investigation has established that President Jonathan and
It was a pathetic state that needed a saviour.. It was a black hole that needed to be washed and allowed to sparkle… She wasn’t a NIGERIA yet, just a young maiden with a lot of dreams, ambitions and potentials that laid helplessly in the hands of lords. She was crowded with people who traded
For me the mantra of CHANGE is not new. Some believe it passionately and others hate it and me for even the thought. The truth is, like it or hate it, or even hate me, the idea that there is a likelihood of change in the Cross River State political environment is a given. The
The title of this article is a localized or rather indigenized version of Walter Rodney’s classic ‘’how Europe underdeveloped Africa’’ written in the 1972 in an effort to explain Africa’s’ continuous deprivation and the role colonialism, nay the world capitalist system has to play in it. This article draws from Rodney’s knowledge of the concept
It was a sunny afternoon! Calabar sun was having its regular competition with only God knows who. Human and every other living thing seemed to wither under the intense sun. Trust me, it wasn’t a weather to smile at. But I found myself in a cab along Marian by Ekong Ita road. Just when the