This is a column by Ken Henshaw, Executive Director of We The People. WITTY THOUGHT is a brisk review of situations in Nigeria with the intent to revive social consciousness. If they could bribe delegates to win their party primaries, then, then hire thugs to intimidate people during the election, then bribe the police to
Cross River State now has a governor-elect, Senator Prince Otu. He will be sworn-in in 68 days as Ayade will be taking his last honor as our Governor. Like other States, what I want to point out applies to all outgoing and incoming governors. The only peculiarity with our State Cross River is the hyper-active
There is a traditional Bette dialect adage in Obudu about our masquerades. “Ukwom unghio-ligie” is literally translated as the parting dance steps of the masquerade. The watchers usually discern that moment from what the talking drums are saying. That exactly is the melodrama oozing from the Ayade’s insidious orchestra. You claim I defamed you. Instead
After Nigeria unjustly used a portion of our State, Bakassi to play father-Christmas on the altar of international politics and nefariously ceded it to Cameroon over a cup of tea in a foreign land, the human beings living in what is now called Bakassi LGA in Cross River State, are still treated like SHIT! Yes,
This feeling has broken the hearts of several former governors. A litany of them who used their enormous power of incumbency to install successors in the hope that their tracks will be covered have only had to bite their fingers down the line and face the embarrassing repudiation of such prior commitments, once there is
Opportunity Statement It is on record that in the past 10 years, over N1.5 trillion has been appropriated for constituency projects in Nigeria, yet the impact of such huge spending on the lives and welfare of ordinary Nigerians can hardly be seen. Peeved by the ugly development, the ICPC in May 2020, declared that it
Opportunity Statement The Obudu Dam Resort, (Not the Ranch), is a multi-purpose facility that provides recreational as well as the essential commodity, water to communities around its environs. Located in Ukwel-Obudu, (my mother’s village), less than 10 kilometers from the Obudu central bus terminal, the dam was destroyed by flood back in 2005 according to
Opportunity Statement In February 2017, the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology and Cross River State launched a waste-to-wealth program in Calabar. The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, laid the foundation for a plant to process waste-to-wealth at the Idundu Industrial Layout in Calabar. The project was also targeted at the production