With the advent of social media, marginalized and vulnerable groups all over the world found a major and veritable channel for rediscovering their voices. From dispossessed aboriginals and indigenous peoples to LGBTQ groups to gender identity groups to racial identity groups to other persons discriminated against based on age, physical disability, language, immigration status, or
Freedom House, America’s oldest think thank, devoted to the support and defense of democracy around the world, was formally established in 1941. It is founded on the core conviction that freedom flourishes in democratic nations where governments are accountable to their people. A Freedom House August 2021 Report, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic,
Immediate past Cross River Governor, Senator Liyel Imoke visited Ayade’s N8.5 Billion Vitaminized Rice Mill in Ogoja, along with his successor, three years ago. Governor Ayade took Imoke on a tour of the mill and while speaking to journalists, Imoke said: “With what I am seeing here, I believe that the quality of rice that
Every time you are able to expose evil, whether in your family or in your street, or in your community, you reduce the potential of that evil to cause further evil. Evil thrives when we talk about it in hush tones. When we continue to fear it. When we fail to challenge it and find
Manoj Jagtiani, the Chief Executive Officer of Indigo Bar Restaurant & Suites is not new to many Nigerians in government circles. They know what he is doing in Nigeria and they have reasons for associating with him. Governor Ayade is now parading him as someone who wants to build Hotel Indigo, a five-star facility with
Nigerian businessman, medical practitioner, and activist, Mahdi Shehu has narrated an event that happened 27 years ago and was significant to the turn of many other events in the country. Shehu revealed the staggering event when he answered questions on why the DSS arrested Tukur Mamu, the man who operates as an intermediary between the
In Cross River, as it is elsewhere, the government has always been the behemoth. A very large and powerful organization in our everyday life. But in every functional society where the government is responsive to the people’s demands, the behemoth must be complemented by another duo, namely, a strong and independent Media and an effective
One of the first lessons students of journalism are ingrained in the classroom is, poet John Milton’s 1644 pamphlet “Areopagitica”, written in response to the British Parliament’s passage of a law requiring the government to approve all books prior to publication. In the Areopagitica, Milton argued that truth and understanding, “are not such wares as