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The Ben Ayade We Think We Know BY TOM OSHIE

There came a time in the Cross River State Political ecosystem particularly in the northern prairie when there was a need to go outside the usual dogs, moose, pronghorns, and other known biotic features. There was the need to test a rookie. More so, like an elk, he has branches of certificates in his head.

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The Oil Thieves Of Nigeria BY JAMES BARNETT

How a violent conflict in the resource-rich Niger Delta has wrought ecological and economic devastation for a generation. Listen to this story Play 00:00:0001:12:34 As the three women from Otuabagi tell it, the Niger Delta’s woes began with a simple yet consequential misunderstanding. The European engineers came to the village in 1956, four years before

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They Are Out For War… BY AGBA JALINGO

All the marriage haters on my timeline have gathered in my inbox and they are trolling me. They are advising me back and forth. They have even created a messenger group and added me so they can nurture me. I am not fighting with anyone. I just don’t want you people to enjoy the party

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Marriage: Blame Yourselves And Save The Future… BY AGBA JALINGO

We came to meet this Earth here. Whether we love to hear it or not, we will DIE one moment and others will enter and the Earth will remain. We have a duty to nurture and preserve the planet for those who are coming after us, in like manner that those who came before us

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I Hear So Much About ‘Ancestral Curses’ These Days – WITTY THOUGHT WITH KEN HENSHAW

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. I hear so much about ‘ancestral curses’ these days. It has become the basis of Pentecostal Christian teaching. For this doctrine, breaking away from our

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Obudu German Hospital… BY AGBA JALINGO

It’s not OK to keep deceiving your people consistently with videos and pictures. If any governor deserves a huge award for optics, it’s our governor. Deliberately, this video was done mostly at night and under very beautiful lighting carefully arranged for the shooting. The most important thing missing in the video is where patients are

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Ayade And Imoke Camps Should Allow Us To Look Forward To Restoration Of Good Governance BY EYO EKPO

Frankly, the broadside from Governor Liyel Imoke at Governor Ayade was a distraction that Cross Riverians do not need. It did not advance the case for “Atiku for President” a single centimeter, it did not help the case of the PDP candidate, Senator Sandy Onor, and it did very little if anything for Governor Imoke’s

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Liyel Imoke, The Greediest Of Them All BY ELDER P. OSIM

If being greedy had another meaning, it would  Liyel. If self-serving has an apt synonym, it would be Imoke. Over the years Liyel Imoke has been very deliberate in building a messianic image of himself as the ever-perfect leader. For many who aren’t in tune with facts, he was a great governor and a marvelous

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