Your lecture room is an eyesore. With students sitting on the floor. 500 students stuffed in a lecture hall built for 50. No additional facilities. No public address system. No ventilation other than the broken 4×4 windows. Students sitting by window rails and hanging along the corridor, stretching their necks to try to hear what
Just like the astronaut requires a space jacket before going to space, one of the most important requirements to come and live on planet Earth, apart from Oxygen, is SIN. Without sin, no soul can incarnate on Earth. The moment your spirit accepts to take up flesh and come to live on planet Earth, it
The political season has come around full swing in Cross River State, and no other subject is dominating the headlines more than the subject of zoning. Arguments around zoning have been so predominant that very little mention is given to the suitability and competence of those aspiring to govern four million people. Let me give
This is a column by Ken Henshaw, Executive Director of We The People. WITTY THOUGHT is a brisk review of situations in Nigeria with intent to revive social consciousness. They will insist they are different, but remember, they made the promises together, they worked together, they failed Nigerians together. NOTE: Opinions expressed in this article
#CRSLeadership Goals is a column by Wofai Ewa focused on the #CRSConversation. It is aimed at improving social consciousness. ECONOMY In 2017, the Cross River State economy produced a Gross State Product (GSP) of around N890 Billion, forming 0.78% of Nigeria’s GDP, with CRS ranking as the 24th largest economy in Nigeria, 12th in Southern Nigeria
2022 has arrived with the expected political declarations to take power to next year, and aspirants are all hitting the roads and combing the rusty clefts they abandoned in the last four years and oiling them for power grab. The people too are making a kill, feasting from the spoils of the quadrennial rendezvous of
The inevitability of power struggles in the State as the 2023 elections draw near is certainly unveiling jokers. The consciousness amongst the people, particularly the electorates calls for concern for those whose desire is to lead the State. There are many jokers masquerading as contestants and, while they may be seen as noise makers, it
In your late twenties and thirties, you rose majestically to power in our State. Our State holds the record of having had the youngest of almost every public office at all levels in the country including notable ones like, youngest Senator ever in Nigeria (Senator Liyel Imoke @30). Youngest elected Governor ever in Nigeria (Donald