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What Exactly Is Wrong With Our Own Subsidies? BY AGBA JALINGO

I’ve been racking my head for some time now to really decipher what exactly is wrong with the Nigerian subsidy on fuel that it should be removed. I have also seen people who together, we vehemently rejected and protested against the removal of fuel subsidies, now defending the same thing we resisted some years ago,

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Discover The Incredible Powers Within You… BY AGBA JALINGO

Far and above what we already know about creation and its breathtaking characteristics, every creature has been endowed with incredible powers beyond whatever you can imagine or what we may have discovered. Man prides himself in supremacy amongst all creation because he has invented diverse means of dominating his environment. Yet there are other creatures

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Response To Agba Jalingo’s Article On Cross River State Scandalous Debt Burden: What Would Sen. Prince Otu Do Differently? BY RICHARD DUKE

The article by my friend Agba Jalingo raises concerns about Cross River State’s increasing debt burden and questions the strategies that Sen. Bassey Otu, the incoming governor, plans to adopt to address this issue.  Agba highlights key statistics from the National Bureau of Statistics and the Debt Management Office, indicating the growth of both external

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You Want Money Right? Come With Me … BY AGBA JALINGO

Getting money cannot be disconnected from a skill, a product, a service or value addition. Unless you want to live on alms or charity. Even if it is inherited fortune, someone must have used a skill, sold a product or offered a service or added value, in the past, to earn that which you have

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Cross River’s Scandalous Debt Burdens: What Will Prince Otu, Do Differently? BY AGBA JALINGO

According to figures from the National Bureau of Statistics NBS and the Debt Management Office DMO, Cross River’s external debt grew from $184.6 million in June 2021 to $279.71million (N129,640,000000. current official exchange rate), in December 2021. While our internal debt has also risen from N159 billion to N197.2 billion at the end of December

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Are You Loyal? BY AGBA JALINGO

Throughout history, loyalty has been more a virtue demanded by the strong than a spontaneous act on the part of an individual or a segment of society. In the strictest sense, allegiance which is demanded, or purchased, is not really loyalty and is an unpredictable factor in human relationships. The allegiance of armies, of workers,

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Mistakes Prince Otu, Must Not Make With The Press … BY AGBA JALINGO

As a bevy of persons queues up to lobby for the position of Chief Press Secretary CPS to the Governor-Elect of Cross River State, Prince Otu, I am inclined to make a few suggestions that I think may help in his consideration of who the cap fits. Let me start by clearing the doubt if

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Lessons From The Ants Colony… BY AGBA JALINGO

Western Exterminator is an American company that offers pest control services and they know their onions. I receive their regular bulletin which they share by mail and they recently gave us an article about the ant colony that should be a huge tenet for us. It encompasses nearly everything and leaves me wondering if we

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