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Dele Giwa: So, Yesterday Was October 19! BY NANDI BETTE

As the decades roll by Memories tend to fade away Yesterday was October 19 Yet no newspaper headlines Recalled the terrorist event But, Deep down their hearts In the cozy opulence Of their “fortified” abodes Their consciences prick As the BOMB MEN Tin gods of yesteryears Await judgment day On 19 October, 32 years ago

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We Cant ‘Reinvent The Wheel’ To Publish Budgets But… Cross River Assembly Speaker, John Lebo

By Jonathan Ugbal The Speaker of the Cross River House of Assembly, Mr. John Gaul Lebo (PDP, Abi) has said that the 8th Assembly cannot go against the norms to publish budgets of the Cross River State government. The 2016 and 2017 budgets have not been accessed by anyone outside a few state actors while

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School Feeding Program And Ghost Vendors – The Case Of Sacred Heart Primary School, Buanchor BY NANDI BETTE

By CrossRiverWatch Admin Since the commencement of the Federal government-sponsored School Feeding Programme in Cross River State, pupils of Sacred Heart Primary School, Buanchor, Boki are yet to be fed. This is because one FLORENCE OBIOCHI BIKOM ABANG, the supposed Vendor assigned to the school is yet to show up. Investigations reveal that, contrary to

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Travelogue: The Tortuous Road To Borum In Boki BY NANDI BETTE

By CrossRiverWatch Admin In 1962, the Eastern Nigeria Regional government, under the premiership of Dr. Michael I. Okpara, acquired land from Irruan, Osokom, Okundi and Borum communities and established the Boki Farm Settlement in Borum. Later, the farm settlement metamorphosed into what is now known as the Boki Oil Palm Estate, that generates a lot

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If Only Tomorrow Comes BY NANDI BETTE

By Nandi Bette   YESTERDAY Behind close doors they decided our fate. Pawns on their Chess Board. we became.   YESTERDAY In our absence, our heads got shaven. Behind our backs They gave us a king.   YESTERDAY From the opulence of their comfort abodes amidst popping of Champagne and clicking of glasses they toyed

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Cross River SUBEB, NUT And Fake Teachers BY NANDI BETTE

After several months of staff verification, the Cross River State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) has announced that there are over seven hundred (700) teachers with fake certificates on her payroll. The Board Chairman, Dr. Stephen Odey further disclosed that various tertiary institutions across the country were contacted to verify the certificates and it was

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Reactivating The Afi Forest Canopy Walkway By NANDI BETTE

By CrossRiverWatch Admin Seventeen years ago, in the strive to support conservation and promote eco-tourism in Cross River State , the government engaged the services of the Green Heart Conservation Company of Canada to construct a Canopy Walkway in the Afi Mountain Forest. Considered at the time of its construction in 2006 as the longest

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Oh, Mountain Man Is Gone BY NANDI BETTE

By mid November, it will be one year, since “the face of Obudu Ranch” took the final bow out of planet earth. And no one seemed to have heard. Born approximately about a hundred and nineteen years ago in 1897, as guessed by close family sources, OBOH, AUGUSTINE USHAGA grew to become one of the

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