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Before Basic Needs Became Luxuries… BY AGBA JALINGO 

The person who built the first car surely did not have luxury in mind. The idea was to facilitate the faster movement of things and persons from place to place. To replace the use of carts and animals with a faster means of transportation. The first self propelled steam engine cart, built by Frenchman, Nicholas

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Young Man And Woman, These 9 Things Will Not Sustain You… BY AGBA JALINGO

1. You cannot in all honesty be using a phone that costs over 1 Million or even half a million, when you are still a student or dependent, and not be a thief or wayward. You have to have very rich parents, lavish relations or sugar daddies or sugar mummies, to be able to sustain

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Survival Tips For These Hard Times… BY AGBA JALINGO

No one can deny how hot it is out there economically. I think that is one area where all the divides agree on. That country hard! Surviving here is made more excruciating daily. There are no off-the-shelf prescriptions for a panacea but you can consider making some adjustments to enable you to swim through the

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Hypertension And The Rest Of Us BY JENNIFER OGOR

Hypertension or High Blood Pressure (HBP) refers to the phenomenon where one’s blood pressure is too high and chronic. Blood pressure, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), is the force exerted by circulating blood against the walls of the body’s arteries, the major blood vessels in the body. In simple terms, blood flows through

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Let’s Sign The Divorce Papers BY FIRST BABA ISA

How can I say this to sink in right away? “I amnot doing again, I want to sign the divorce papers.” “Tell him to bring the divorce papers, let me sign, let’s end this marriage.” “We have signed the divorce papers. It’s over.” “The marriage is over. We signed the divorce papers.” Calm down. I

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Jarigbe Agom, Mathias Uyouyo Hail Jedy-Agba At 60

By Obeten Godfrey Federal lawmaker, Honorable Jarigbe Agom (PDP, Ogoja/Yala) and the co-author of the book, ‘Stepping Forward Eith Uti J.D Agba’ have several other notable personalities to celebrate a former guber aspirant, Prince Goddy Jedy-Agba on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday celebration. Mr. Agba was born on August 20, 1958 and turned 60

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Donald Duke’s Daughter Xerona Gets Engaged To Disc Jockey

By Jonathan Ugbal Xerona Duke, the eldest daughter of former Cross River Governor, Donald Duke has gotten engaged to Beat 99.9 FM Disc Jockey, Derin Phillips. Mr. Philips better known by his stage name, DJ Caise is the grandson of the late Antonio Deinde Fernandez, a businessman and diplomat who at one time served as

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The Hausas of Ikom

by crossriverwatch admin The ready help of a famous elephant hunter led to the rise of the Hausa quarters in Ikom, Cross River State. The great hunt. It began as a hunt for Elephants. Today, 160 years on, one cannot see elephants in the area, but the story itself is elephantine in many ways. In

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