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Sunday Musings: Who Told Humans They Are The Most Intelligent Creatures? BY AGBA JALINGO

In 2011, scientists used a technique based on patterns in the number of species at each level of biological classification to estimate that there are around 8.7 million species of plants and animals in existence, including human beings. However, only around 1.2 million species have been identified and described so far, most of which are

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Role Of The Media In The Conduct Of Peaceful Elections BY CHRIS ISIGUZO, NUJ PRESIDENT

This is a keynote presentation by the National President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Comrade Chris Isiguzo in a 2-day (7- 10 November 2022) training on Conflict Sensitive Reporting, 2023 General Elections And Countering Fake News in Port Harcourt for journalists and civic space actors. The training is organized by the Centre for Democracy and

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Putting The Record Straight And Exposing The Lies Of Gov Ayade BY SEN. JARIGBE AGOM

Governor Ayade held a meeting with APC party stakeholders and started this; That I, Senator Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe, was his Boy. Correction: I am in my 50s and Ayade is in his 50s, from the records in his preferred Age Declaration. I never heard of the name, Ayade, in Cross River State, until I turned

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N500m Stabilization Fund: The Lie From Abuja And The Silence From Calabar BY AGBA JALINGO

Barely forty days before the end of former Cross River Governor, Senator Liyel Imoke’s administration, in a petition dated April 16, 2015, Cross River lawyer and former presidential aide, Okoi Obono Obla, petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, to investigate the expenditure of allocations to the 18 local governments in Cross River State

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Where Is The Cross River State Scholarship Board? BY AGBA JALINGO

“They used to be a functional Cross River State Scholarship Board. They sourced for scholarships even outside Cross River State for students. I benefited from one of those scholarships. Board members came with scholarship forms to the University. In far away Sokoto. Went from faculty to faculty… In fact department to department to get qualified

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Now That We Have Seen Governor Ayade’s Last Budget … BY AGBA JALINGO

Yesterday Governor Ayade presented his 2023 budget proposal to the State House of Assembly, and as usual, he gave the N330 Billion proposal, which is his last budget in office, another buzz name: Budget of “Quantum Infinitum.” For the records, let’s see the budgets from the year 2016 since Governor Ayade took over: 2016, Budget

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As University Students Return To Class … BY AGBA JALINGO

There is one alarm button I won’t stop pressing mainly because of the consequences of its imminent explosion. The piling number of thousands of graduating students without any skill or ability to solve any problem is something that we must not stop to talk about. While several of our country’s most disciplined pioneers and high

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Does Nigeria Depress You Too…BY AGBA JALINGO

There are three tiers of government – Federal, State, and LGA. There are over 40 ministries and there are hundreds of MDAs and Parastatals. We also have the security services, the military, and the paramilitary as well as the foreign service. All these structures of government were specifically created to SERVE us the citizens, diligently.

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