When I think of this course, I imagine 1,000 McDonald’s double cheeseburgers in America; 76 premier league tickets in England; two pet kangaroos in Australia; and 5,000sqm of land in Nigeria. All of these can be bought with 2,200 American dollars, the same amount required to take a Public Narrative course at Harvard Kennedy School’s
Exactly twenty years after Nigeria supposedly got rid of men in camouflage, the country’s democracy is experiencing a nosedive in ways that words alone cannot adequately capture. Ironically, members of the judiciary appear to be aiding the attack against Nigeria’s democracy. An example is the recent ruling in Agba Jalingo’s case in Calabar, where the
His style of journalism has always stirred my mind. Before he got arrested by the Police in August this year, I was an ardent reader of his regular posts that served as reminders of the number of days that are left for Senator Ben Ayade to serve as Governor of Cross River State. Those posts
It’s interesting to find that media institutions appear salutary of those in Government more than hold a position of dispassionate role-play, at least in my recent estimation. While it is important to be patriots in a skewed globalised order, of importance is to stand firm and fight where one’s oxen are repeatedly gored and death
“In the long history of the world; only a few generations have been given the role of defending freedom, in its hour of maximum danger, I do not shrink from that responsibility; I welcome it” – J.F. Kennedy The stakes are really high in Cross River State. Yet, make no mistake about her, Cross River
For those interested in politics for the passion of it’s fundamental value to society’s growth and development, it’s potentials to enrich and improve the quality of the lives we and our people live, this is a time to speak up and act. A time to fashion out workable solutions to the problems created over a
Before you appoint a man to a position of talking, you must make sure he has mastered the art of silence. Most of Governor Ayade’s aides who were appointed into “talking positions” like press, communication, new media, etc don’t know that silence is an integral part of effective communication. These guys are in love with
Please take a look at the first picture. That is Agba Jalingo, a journalist and publisher of CrossRiverWatch. The other man is Governor Benedict Bengioushuye Ayade (Ben Ayade for short). He is the current 2nd term Governor of Cross River State. He was a member of the 7th Senate and in terms of academic qualification,