The deplorable condition of Odukpani – Itu – Ikot Ekpene road have brought untold hardship to commuters plying that road. The impassable state of the road is responsible for the public outcry in recent time. It is very painful that a trip on that road which used to be less than two hours drive now
Listening to people talk about the upcoming State Congress of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Cross River State, one would think that it is armageddon or the flip side of epiphany, or even D – DAY in Normandy. Like the whole world was possibly coming to a definite end following the result of the
Governor Ayade of Cross River state has earmarked N24billion for COVID-19 relief and recovery. The figure was contained in the reviewed 2020 Budget of Olympotic Merristemasis sent to the State House of Assembly, yesterday for consideration. The initial budget of 1.1trillion which the governor signed in January 2020 was reviewed downward to N147,130,166,996 and 16.3
Out of concern for the not too encouraging current state of our dear party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, I will be sharing my personal experience in the proper management of a political party and will also attempt to proffer some workable solutions to these issues bedeviling the Party. I gathered this experience as a
The University of Calabar situated in Cross River State, South-south Nigeria, is one of Nigeria’s second generation and foremost Federal Universities. The University of Calabar was a campus of the University of Nigeria until 1975. The architecture was designed by John Elliott. It was established by decree to fulfill this traditional mandate, its motto, “Knowledge
You may have been tired of reading my essays about your uninspiring leadership as governor of our state, but you should be prepared to read tons of them, not just from me but from other Cross Riverians who are of the view that your burdensome leadership and policies are not in the best interest of
The University of Calabar (fondly called UNICAL) was first established as the Calabar campus of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN). It was in 1975 that the Federal Military Government announced Unical as a full-fledged academic institution. On that note, the university started operating as an autonomous institution without affiliation to UNN. Unical is ranked
He came as a leader whose fate was inextricably intertwined with the displaced and dispossessed people of Bakassi. At every forum, Governor Ben Ayade wrenched quite a volume of tears enough to form a lake or drown a community, while speaking about the level of crass insensitivity on the part of the federal authorities who orchestrated