The minority people of the former Eastern Region of Nigeria are today found in Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Rivers and Bayelsa States. The regional system that was abolished on the 27th May 1967, when the then Federal Military Government under the leadership of General Yakubu Gowon created 12 States to effectively end regionalism introduced by
AN ADDRESS PRESENTED BY SENATOR BEN AYADE, GOVERNOR OF CROSS RIVER STATE ON THE OCCASION OF NIGERIA’S 55TH INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION HELD ON 1ST OCTOBER, 2015 IN CALABAR Fellow Cross Riverians, Today offers us another opportunity to celebrate our nation’s Independence from her Colonial Masters. It is therefore with much delight and honour that I
This write up was prompted as a comment to a post from one of my Facebook friends this morning to the effect that Cross River State is not an oil producing state. Of a truth, Cross River State is not an oil producing state but that doesn’t mean that the state is not an oil
Experts posit that the solid minerals sector has the greatest potentials for investors as Nigeria seeks to diversify from the mono-sector to a multi-sector economy. The sector presents bigger opportunities and greater return on investment as it is still largely unexplored and unexploited. Cross River State is blessed with various solid minerals in abundant quantities
Okuni, a village barely 13 km to Ikom shares boundary with some villages in Akampka Local government. This sounds like a surprise? Yes. Why then do one need to go through Apiapum Ugep, Adim Akpet to get to Akampka? It is within this context you can now understand Ben Ayade’s Super Highway that would shorten
By Solomon Asha/Emmanuel Ulayi The main idea of government is not just to run an organized society with civilized laws to guide human conduct and man’s relationship with his fellow man but also to ensure the provision of the right environment for the expression of the full potentials of the citizenry and services that will
This is not a topic that on a normal day I would have written about, but because of certain misconceptions floating all over the internet, some blaming the Governor, some blaming his aides, others blaming petition writers as being unpatriotic and others blaming Mr. President as heeding to politics in cancelling the trip, made me
I was going through a Facebook narration by John Offiong of his experience with litter, yesterday in Union Station, Washington DC and he concluded his article thus: ‘’Truth is, our people are mostly very dirty people living in a filthy country and our cities can bear witness to this assertion. Even my beloved Calabar