With only 46 days to elections, Governor Ayade is either reluctant or afraid of going to campaign in the communities he wants votes from, to return to the Senate. Cross River Northern senatorial district, where he aspires to represent again has 51 political wards. Since the commencement of campaign activities officially, he has only been
Torrents of prayers and new year’s resolutions have gone out as they do every year. The majority of them are certainly asking for money in the new year. But in the prevailing world capitalist calligraphy, while the government often monetizes debts and other financial instruments to generate revenue, individuals and businesses also monetize products and
Before now, a simple online search for the Carnival Calabar Festival will pop up the beautiful array of colors and beaded waists of maidens adorning the regaled and lightened streets of the ancient city of Calabar. But since the past 48 hours, all that has changed. A search for the same festival anywhere now returns
By Jonathan Ugbal Nigerian journalist and activist, Citizen Agba Jalingo has said that those preventing presidential candidates in the 2023 general elections from partaking in debates and shielding them from asking questions should be viewed as enemies of democracy. Jalingo, who is the Editor-in-Chief of CrossRiverWatch stated this while speaking on Arise Television’s flagship program,
In Nigeria, most of the veterans of our struggle for independence were all young journalists who later transformed into politicians and joined political movements to seek office. I’ve been approached several times by concerned persons who feel that as a journalist, I am supposed to stay out of politics and concentrate on investigating and writing
It is left with 75 days to the general elections and 167 days to the end of this present administration in Cross River State and the rest of Nigeria.After about eight years in power, it is important that we continue to remind our governor, Senator Ben Ayade, of the many promises he gave to Cross
Populism in its most basic definition is simply a political approach that strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups. That seems to be the favorite path for governor Ayade as his days in office pan into the very last lap. Having self-evidently accepted his outright
Barely forty days before the end of former Cross River Governor, Senator Liyel Imoke’s administration, in a petition dated April 16, 2015, Cross River lawyer and former presidential aide, Okoi Obono Obla, petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, to investigate the expenditure of allocations to the 18 local governments in Cross River State