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Calabar, The City Where The Criminals Are Confident BY RICHARD INOYO

Just last month , June 2024, the street adjacent to Ibom Close known as Iso Qua, a new Toyota Corolla car was stolen. The owner had parked his car briefly to see a friend, by the time he came out, the car was gone. That car is still at large just like my organization’s car

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Sunday Musings: Your Happiness Depends On Others… BY AGBA JALINGO 

Even if you are atheist, you relate with and contemplate on other creatures to derive happiness. Your happiness depends on others. Even if you are the most pious introvert or monk, you still meditate or pray to a superior intelligence or God, to find inner peace. So your happiness depends on others. If it is

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Sunday Musings: A Day Will Never Come When I Will Need You? BY AGBA JALINGO 

I imagine that I released a footage here where I was addressing members of my small organization, CrossRiverWatch, that, “a day will never come when I will need you. You need me. If you don’t want to dry up, you need me for your race.” I imagine the kind of bashing I will receive. Even

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Re- Chairmanship Of The Cross River State Traditional Council: How Not To Treat Our Royal Fathers BY EFFIONG NYONG

 It is interesting and worrisome, the way we have  continually  desecrated the traditional institution in Nigeria and in Cross River State. Worrisome because of the persons involved, to them everything is politics and it doesn’t really matter, after all the government pays and whoever pays the piper dictates the tune and that is where we

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Young Man And Woman, These 9 Things Will Not Sustain You… BY AGBA JALINGO

1. You cannot in all honesty be using a phone that costs over 1 Million or even half a million, when you are still a student or dependent, and not be a thief or wayward. You have to have very rich parents, lavish relations or sugar daddies or sugar mummies, to be able to sustain

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The Girl, Blessing Iripia Alims, New UNICAL SUG President BY AGBA JALINGO

The new President of the Students Union Government SUG of the University of Calabar UNICAL, Blessing Alims, who has now made the record as the first-ever female SUG President of the school, 49 years after it was founded, is from Gakem, in Bekwarra LGA, Cross River State. She’s studying Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution with

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Africa Is Monotheistic… BY AGBA JALINGO

Like many other lies that foreigners told us about Africa and we swallowed them hook, line and sinker; lies like, it was Mungo Park who discovered River Niger, we also bought into the lie that Africa is Pantheistic. Meaning African religions have multiple gods. Those who accept and romanticize that lie are doing so because

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Open Letter To Governor Bassey Otu: Request To Reconsider The Monthly Environmental Sanitation Exercise In Cross River State BY ISO BASSEY 

His Excellency, Senator Prince Bassey Otu, Governor of Cross River State, Nigeria Your Excellency, I hope this letter finds you in good health and high spirits. I am writing to you as a concerned citizen and representative of the Cross River Movement, an organization dedicated to improving the quality of governance and promoting sustainable development

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