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Betta Edu: Celebrating The Foot Soldier, Poster Girl Of The Renewed Hope Agenda BY RASHEED OLANREWAJU

In all the places she has visited, Dr. Edu spread the message of hope, mingled and empathized with the vulnerable, and distributed relief items.  Her message of hope is clear and succinct:  “The goal is to get everybody wherever they are out of poverty and humanitarian crises… We will close all gaps to ensure Nigerians

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The Ladder Has Two Ends… BY AGBA JALINGO

Continuum in life is nature’s way of taking a huge risk and hoping it will pay off. Everything in life is a continuum. Things happen in perpetuity. Nothing in life ever really dies or comes to an end. Things only change forms. We learned that in elementary science. That matter exists in different forms. Solid,

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Who Will Bell The Cat? BY Agba Jalingo

National Assembly records show that from 1999 to the 8th National Assembly (2015-2019), the 469 seats at both the Senate and House of Reps have been occupied by 2,345 persons. This includes those who weren’t re-elected and the freshers who displaced them. In the 9th National Assembly, 64 Senators and 151 Reps, were not re-elected.

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You Own Nothing, You Lose Nothing… BY AGBA JALINGO 

If you buy land or buy a house, you have only paid rent for the remaining years you have on Earth. None of them belong to you. If you buy a car, you have only paid for your transport for the period the car will last or for the period you will last. It doesn’t

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Calabar Eleven Eleven Roundabout And The Politics Of Remodeling… BY AGBA JALINGO

The Eleven-Eleven roundabout in Calabar, Cross River State was named after Armistice Day when World War I (1914-1918) ended at the 11th hour on the morning of the 11th day in the 11th month of 1918. The Eleven Eleven Roundabout which was built by the Mr. Donald Duke administration and had on its sides features

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Thank You Is Not Enough Dear Agba Jalingo BY ELIJAH UGANI

Today is not your birth anniversary, but I choose to use this day to celebrate what, who you’re and meant to me. You berthed CrossRiverWatch and gave many of us the opportunity to expand our horizons in the online media. You gave me the platform to build myself and the opportunity for further training. In

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We Can Co-Exist If We Don’t Encroach… BY AGBA JALINGO

In 1543, three Portuguese travelers aboard a Chinese ship arrived in Japan and became the first Europeans to visit the country. That was 58 years after Portuguese missionaries and slave traders arrived in Nigeria. Five years later, in 1548, Francis Xavier, a Portuguese Jesuit, arrived from Goa to introduce Christianity to the Japanese. As it

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It’s Getting Worse, But We Will All Be Responsible… BY AGBA JALINGO

Democracy is a good system of government. We have seen democracy lead to rapid development and economic progress across the West, but the same democracy appears to have extinguished its taste for progression when it arrived in Nigeria. Generally speaking from 1999 at least, many will agree with me that, the more leaders we have

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