A first time flyer who gets money to buy a flight ticket, starts feeling like he or she is important. You will feel God has elevated you to the skies where many others have not or may never get. You are eager to snap and show the world that “what God cannot do does not
in the media, conversations about the proposed state are being framed less around economic blueprints, vision and plans, and more around zoning, capital siting, and who gets what or becomes what.
This has been long in coming and in fact, long overdue- bring the 20-years of feeding bottle approach to an end and adopt a more sustainable, self-reliant strategic divestment policy to the management of the biggest street event on the continent. But in a moment that shall shimmer through the annals of Cross River’s cultural
The communal war between Obudu people in Cross River State and their Tiv neighbors in Benue State is said to be over 75 years old. Yet these two are very closely interwoven in numerous aspects of their daily lives. In recent times, they farm together, they intermarry, they buy and sell in the same markets,
What I want to write now is not new. It’s what I have been saying all along. Ogoja State may never come to pass, at least, not in my lifetime. You don’t have to believe me. Just wait and see. Those who are deceiving you will not tell you this. They want to continue spiking
Try and have a conversation about development, (not politics), with some of those people you call capacity leaders and notice somethings. The first challenge is that the followers themselves don’t even have a full grasp of what development entails. So even the people, who are mostly timid and sycophantic, can hardly have the courage or
I do not think that there is anyone who has been able to develop the ability to tell when exactly they fall sleep. We all can tell when we went to bed. But there is that moment when your eyes close by themselves and you fall asleep. No one knows that moment. That moment is
While the state government's efforts so far are commendable, more needs to be done to find a lasting solution to this challenge