PART I: HEALTHFUL-Words This week’s Healthful Words on CrossRiverWatch is a sequel of a previous quote drawn from World Health Report 1995 by the World Health Organization. “I was hungry and you formed a committee to investigate my hunger. I was homeless and you filed a report on my plight. I was sick and you
“It’s possible to have a community radio and TV station transmitting news to Yakurr communities at home and in the diaspora, specifically on governance and development issues. And it’s possible to expand it across Cross River State and use space technology to break the monopoly of CRBC. The sad reality is that when you take
They all laid with hope radiating from their eye balls.. I walked in of course with my strength. Good afternoon mam.. You are welcome my dear.. She replied rapidly.. I was quietly led to a room whose temperature was rather heartbreaking. As I walked in, little voices of sincerity kept crying from different angles. Little
HEALTH-Watch By Dr. Osim (EPISODE V) Our recent past as a nation has easily been marred by events that leave chapters of puckered stories that many would rather wish expunged from the catalogues of history. At the time when the nation was faced with a call to battle by the EBOLA virus challenging the right-to-life
By CrossRiverWatch admin To vote in the ongoing CrossRiverWatch online governorship election poll, every interested voter must have a Facebook, Twitter or Google ID. The voter will click on the picture on the home page and it will automatically direct you to another display page like the one below. On the page above, the names
First week of February. It scares the hell out of me that February 14th is around the corner. It wouldn’t be the usual tradition of sleeping at home all day or taking a loved one to see movies. It will be more serious… Having time alone with your thoughts, choices and votes. Looking back at
I strongly admire Donald Duke despite the fact when he was Governor I was one of his fiercest critics. He is awesomely handsome, bold, courageous, visionary but dictatorial. I also alleged that his government was corrupt. I did not like some of the white elephants projects (such as Tinapa) he embarked on during his time.
CHOLERA: the Death-Dealing Disease, Our Life-Saving Choices. The year was 1854, and London was in the grip of yet another outbreak of cholera—an intestinal ailment characterized by severe diarrhea and dehydration. The disease struck with alarming speed. Many who awoke in good health were dead by nightfall. There was no known cure. Some thought cholera