By Jonathan Ugbal and Patrick Obia The serene Ukalibe’s compound in Ukwel-Obudu village of Obudu Local Government Area came alive on Friday and Saturday as the funeral rites of Mama Mary Andokie Ikwen (nee Ushie) the grandmother of CrossRiverWatch publisher, Agba Jalingo were carried out. Fondly referred to as “Ama Bebuatsuan,” her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren,
Regardless of how scary it may sound, it is axiomatic that life was longer when it was slower, and as life gets faster with technological leaps, life will continue to get shorter. I don’t know the calendar or the lunar cycle that was in place at the time, but we are told in the Bible
With the advent of social media, marginalized and vulnerable groups all over the world found a major and veritable channel for rediscovering their voices. From dispossessed aboriginals and indigenous peoples to LGBTQ groups to gender identity groups to racial identity groups to other persons discriminated against based on age, physical disability, language, immigration status, or
Freedom House, America’s oldest think thank, devoted to the support and defense of democracy around the world, was formally established in 1941. It is founded on the core conviction that freedom flourishes in democratic nations where governments are accountable to their people. A Freedom House August 2021 Report, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic,
By Jonathan Ugbal The grandmother of CrossRiverWatch publisher, Agba Jalingo, Mrs. Mary Andokie Ikwen (née Ushie) has died aged 121. “Ama-Bebuatsuan (Mama Bebuatsuan)” as she was popularly referred to, died in the early hours of Saturday in Udigie, Obudu Local Government Area. A native of Begiaba community, she was married first in Ukwel-Obudu where she
Immediate past Cross River Governor, Senator Liyel Imoke visited Ayade’s N8.5 Billion Vitaminized Rice Mill in Ogoja, along with his successor, three years ago. Governor Ayade took Imoke on a tour of the mill and while speaking to journalists, Imoke said: “With what I am seeing here, I believe that the quality of rice that
Every time you are able to expose evil, whether in your family or in your street, or in your community, you reduce the potential of that evil to cause further evil. Evil thrives when we talk about it in hush tones. When we continue to fear it. When we fail to challenge it and find
In Cross River, as it is elsewhere, the government has always been the behemoth. A very large and powerful organization in our everyday life. But in every functional society where the government is responsive to the people’s demands, the behemoth must be complemented by another duo, namely, a strong and independent Media and an effective