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My Stewardship So Far BY HON PETER AKPANKE

Together, we shall demolish all the mountains and refill all the valleys that dare to stand between us and the attainment of our collective desires.

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Sunday Musings: Things You Shouldn’t Be Praying For… BY AGBA JALINGO

Nigerians today boast of the biggest churches in the world. For the members of those ministries, it is a huge achievement. For many who understand the dynamics, it is a sign of endemic poverty, deprivation and bad governance. Let me try to explain. Some of the most pressing things that force our people to churches

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Don’t Be Like Him… BY AGBA JALINGO

Inside Afokang Prison in Calabar, the place I spent my time the most was in the welfare department where we make phone calls, receive counseling and where the prison library is. I was always borrowing their books. I had a favorite counselor, Madam Nancy. A wonderful Ikom woman that was so kind and generous to

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Have We Lost Our Community? BY AGBA JALINGO

How did our cousins, nieces, nephews, aunties, and friends, who used to visit us without notice when there was no phone or mail, and elicit so much joy, become witches and burdens, that must now call to inform us before coming? How did family and marital disputes that used to be resolved by close family

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In Memoriam – Tikare Akan: Three Years And Counting BY CHRISTIAN ULEM

Dear Tikare Akan Today I remembered you as a great person, whose memory will accompany me forever, through love, friendship and the moments we had the opportunity to share together. In the tapestry of life, there are threads woven with brilliance, kindness, and innovation. Among them, shines the radiant presence of TK, a beacon of

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Why Are You Unhappy? BY AGBA JALNGO

When you watch a movie that makes you cry, or watch a game that makes you excited or moody, or sight an enemy that causes you anxiety and a faster heartbeat, or perceive a smell that makes you cover your nose, or hear a sound that makes you cringe or exclaim, or remember a thought

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Wetin Our Roundabouts Do Na? BY AGBA JALINGO

After the demolition of the vaults at the Eleven-Eleven roundabout in Calabar, Cross River State, which was named after the Armistice Day when World War I (1914-1918) ended at the 11th hour on the morning of the 11th day in the 11th month of 1918, and replacing same with a statue of the Holy Bible,

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Weaponization Of Poverty… BY AGBA JALINGO

Once, I attended an ANPP campaign event in Maiduguri as a journalist and was privileged to be in the Governor’s convoy. The Governor then was ANPP. He was in company of a former National Chairman of the party, who was also from the North. (I want to withhold their names). While the governor’s convoy was

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