16 years ago I attended a conference at York University in Canada, we conducted a field survey on black kids in Rexdale and Regent Park Toronto. In the survey, we asked them a straight question: what comes to your mind if the word “Africa” is mentioned? Their answers centered mostly on hungry looking children with
Feeling Home Again 1 I remember what it was like growing up around my grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. Going home to the village every holiday was a trip I looked forward to in anticipation. The drive through the different towns and the various stops to refuel and to snack on either pears and corn or
If I were to generate what we refer to as impact assessment in process evaluation on the effect of Governor Ben Ayade’s actions and inaction’s in government house barely 96 hours, or 40 work hours, to be objective and without biase, I would definitely grade him excellent. If I had graded him earlier before he
As the 7th Assembly winds up, an enigma wraps up an endearing three-term sojourn in the Senate of the National Assembly. This, indeed, is a time of reckoning and stock taking. For me, my Senator with whom l share the Nkpanjen and Ekpache ancestry as well as a common profession, did well in the 12
Twelve years ago this month, the 5th Senate was inaugurated with Senator Adolphus Wabara as Senate President and I was sworn in as Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, after my election to represent the Central Senatorial District of Cross River State. I was assigned Committees and made Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Solid
I really mused over the caption of this piece for a couple of nights before finally settling for it. The alternative could have been the “The beginning of the end” but I felt this might not captivate readers better than the chosen one above. This was a guy who burst into the political scene from
The poverty of bourgeoisie mentality is like a canker-worm that has eaten deep into the Nigerian development concept. How do we explain a 6 billion naira specialist hospital built in Yenogua almost a decade ago, never used, today the building is said to be sinking? We have not addressed basic primary health care, yet we
Cross River State is rich in solid minerals, which is presently largely unexploited. Of note are limestones, barytes, clay, salt, tin, granite basalt, quartzite, kaolin, feldspar to mention a few. In spite of the rich mineral endowments, mining activities at a commercial level have been restricted only to limestone. The solid mineral sector has the