In 2019, despite being the only State out of the 36 states of the Federation that exceeded the borrowing ceiling due to a high debt burden, Cross River State Government went on to acquire loans including an unapproved foreign loan of N1.4 billion for what it tagged “AFD CRS National Program for Food Security”. The
Throughout history, loyalty has been more a virtue demanded by the strong than a spontaneous act on the part of an individual or a segment of society. In the strictest sense, allegiance which is demanded, or purchased, is not really loyalty and is an unpredictable factor in human relationships. The allegiance of armies, of workers,
Obubra still holds the gold medal for the highest number of communal clashes in Cross River State. Apart from the ongoing clash between Ofatura and Ovunum communities which has blocked the highway, in Obubra alone, there are active or hibernating communal clashes between: Iyamitet and Ababene. Iyamitet and Adun. Ofatura and Apiapum. Onyadama and neighboring
Someone tells you he has appointed you into Government office as Commissioner or SA or PA, and waits until the end of the administration, then invites you to come and do documentation to be given your appointment letters? For a new job or for the job you have finished doing? (that’s if you did any
As a bevy of persons queues up to lobby for the position of Chief Press Secretary CPS to the Governor-Elect of Cross River State, Prince Otu, I am inclined to make a few suggestions that I think may help in his consideration of who the cap fits. Let me start by clearing the doubt if
Hittites, Canaanites, Girgashites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, are the seven nations that Israel defeated, destroyed, and took over their lands which their God Jehovah had promised them. That land of Canaan, today geographically covers Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, and the southern portions of Syria and Lebanon. All seven nations were descendants
PREAMBLE This paper is provoked by the sad discovery that a vast majority of Cross Riverians appear to have lost faith and or given up on the fact that, we are an oil-bearing state with all the potential to become an oil-producing state, if and when all the politics/issues holding us captive are addressed. Having
Cross River State began the construction of the Obudu Airport a few months before the Ebonyi Airport in Abakaliki, in 2019. Cross River State and Ebonyi State, are at per at the bottom of earnings from the federal allocation FAAC, in Nigeria. Governor Ayade vowed before red cap chiefs in Obudu that if he doesn’t