Opinion
Breaking News Opinion

Retrace For Redress… BY AGBA JALINGO

This December, the people who own the biggest mansions in our home towns and drive the most expensive cars with security convoys, will be returning back to multi billion Naira country homes they inhabit once in a year. Yes, they own the biggest mansions. They are the only ones that can burst big bundles now.

Read More
Breaking News Health Opinion

Pray With Me, Oh Lord Don’t Allow Me Fall Sick… BY AGBA JALINGO

The Orthodox way of responding to signs of ill health is to first go and take a laboratory test of what the issue is. Secondly, you go to a health facility and the first person you see there is the nurse. The nurse takes your information and your vitals and prepares you to see the

Read More
Breaking News Civic Space Opinion

If You Don’t Like, Go To Court… BY AGBA JALINGO

Every election cycle, Nigerians go to the polls to vote for: President. Vice President. 109 Senators. 360 House of Reps members. 36 Governors. (36 Deputy Governors) 940 State Houses of Assembly members. 774 LGA Chairmen. (774 Vice Chairmen) 8,806 Ward Councilors. But since after the 1999 elections, it is the courts that have been selecting

Read More
Breaking News Business & Economy Opinion

Are You Traveling Home This December? BY AGBA JALINGO

In 51 days from today we will be in December. We all know what happens in December. Most people want to go home to their villages and hometowns. It’s the holiday season. But if you are planning to go to the village, kindly take note of the following: So if you ask me, unless you

Read More
Breaking News Opinion

UNICROSS: The Absence Of Hostel Accommodation In Obubra And Ogoja Campuses, Implication For Rating And The Call On Governor Bassey Otu And Others To Act Today BY RICHARD INOYO

Cross River is a State blessed with a panoply of uniqueness. It is a place that has several climate zones with extraordinary biodiversity that can’t be matched by any State in Nigeria and across the West African sub-region, and its greatest asset has been the good people of Cross River State spread across a network

Read More
Breaking News Opinion

Sunday Musings: Why We Must Not Keep Quiet… BY AGBA JALINGO

There is a reason why we must not keep quiet. Most of us are very comfortable when people call out politicians who mismanage our public finances and tax the poor to share amongst themselves. You must be blind in Nigeria today not to have noticed that, there is a cartel of crooks across all strata

Read More
Breaking News Opinion

Go Back Home… BY AGBA JALINGO

A young couple married for barely 2 years, separated recently because the wife complained about the husband’s snoring. But it was more than that. She had been complaining about the snoring and asking her husband to do something about it. “Didn’t you know he snores when you were dating?” I asked her.  “I was visiting

Read More
Breaking News National News Opinion

64th Independence Anniversary – There Is No Light In This Tunnel… BY AGBA JALINGO

Congratulations to Nigeria and Nigerians today as we celebrate the 64th anniversary of our independence from the British crown. According to many credible sources listed at the end of this article, electricity generation in Nigeria began in the Lagos province in 1886, with the use of generators to provide 60kW of electricity to light up

Read More