The former Governor of Cross River State, Mr. Donald Duke said something startling yesterday at the campaign reception for Mr. Goddy Jedy Agba in Calabar. In an uncharacteristic bluntness, Donald Duke said there are only two monkeys in Cross River State. He revealed these two monkeys to be two companies. These two companies are namely
“What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honourable than teaching?” – Harriet Martinaeu. The facts are no longer in dispute that Cross River State stands at the vicissitude of this juncture and at the pinnacle of decision making. Granted that everybody is fully
The conduct of the PDP congresses last Saturday to elect three delegates from the electoral wards in the state is a pointer to the wicked plans of some of our political leaders to consign known political crowd pullers to the background. It shows that Cross River State political opportunists harbor sinister schemes to explode the
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