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APC In Need Of Rebranding BY OKOI OBONO-OBLA

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

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UNICAL Vice Chancellorship Race: Professor Joseph Ele Asor – The Perfect Man For The Job

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

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Dear Governor Ben Ayade, What Will You Be Remembered For? BY ELIAS OZIKPU

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

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UNICAL Vice Chancellorship Race: Professor Joseph Ele Asor – An Ode To The Man Who Perfectly Fits The Bill BY MISSANG OYAMA

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

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Bakassi Returnees: How Ayade Wept, Promised, Delivered On Housing Estate BY LINUS OBOGO

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

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‘Bakassi’ Widow In Photo Op With Governor Ayade Was Not Given A House – Hear Her On Video

By CrossRiverWatch Admin The woman in the Photo op with Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River shared by his aides during the commissioning of 52 housing units has not been given a house. Findings by CrossRiverWatch reveal that contrary to the earlier reported 400 housing units, only 52 were built. Two of those units are

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EDITORIAL: This Administration Must Move Beyond Emotions

May 29, 2020 The current administration in Cross River state has just 1,095 days left in office before its statutory four year tenure elapses yet Cross Riverians have always been regaled with comical acts from elected and appointed office holders in the past one year; a situation that has placed a people once known for

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Sir Arthur Jarvis Archibong: The Man Who Sees Beyond Tomorrow BY FRANK EDIMA

If education is expensive, ignorance is still more costly… P. B. de La Bruère – 1903 All around continental Africa, most of the countries appear to be in a state of uncertainty as there seems to be some form of identity crisis following the inability to properly define nationalist goals and holistic approaches to achieving

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