In Part V, Section 30 of the Cross River State Traditional Rulers Law, it is illegal for our revered Traditional Rulers to participate in partisan politics. Take Particular Note Of Sub-section 1C And Sub-Section 3. Following those provisions, the Speaker of the State Assembly should either amend the law to allow our monarchs to play
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. People who support the Twitter ban in Nigeria generally fall into two categories. The first are principally of Northern Nigeria extraction and die hard supporters of
Weeks ago, a BBC Africa Eye documentary about corruption in the pension system in Cross River State went viral. The twenty-six-minute documentary showed the plight of pensioners in the State and exposed some unsavoury practices of government officials in the management of pensions. The plight of our pensioners shows that when greed-fueled corruption enters the
For months, speculations of his defection to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, dominated discourse in the new and traditional media. Like others before him, Professor Ben Ayade, twice elected Governor of Cross River State on the platform of the PDP, played the ostrich, in a fashion that was
Can we organize at least, community town hall meetings, one for the very representatives who hitherto buy motorcycles, sewing machines and deep freezers to empower the people in communities where electricity has never been seen, and youths lack the technical capacity to compete with their counterparts in other States, women lack the capacity to sew.
Hardly anyone in today’s world can dispute the value technology brings to service delivery. Whether it is a simple email or SMS (Short Messaging Service) that informs you that your application has been received and is being processed or a more complex system that enables you to pay for a service online, technology can make
To a lay person, the term ‘theory’ sounds technical but in reality it simply refers to the idea of giving a title or name to an observable phenomenon for the purpose of explaining the relationships between concepts. More pointedly, theory allows people to explain what they see and to figure out how to bring about
‘‘We need leaders of inspired idealism, leaders to who are granted great visions, who dream greatly and strive to make their dreams come true; who can kindle the people with the fire from their burning souls’’ – Theodore Roosevelt The practice of liberal and constitutional democracy in Nigeria is getting increasingly fraught with the clamor