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Real Reason I Will Not Stop Criticizing Governor Ayade BY AGBA JALINGO

Criticism isn’t such a difficult word to comprehend literary, but it’s meaning is often mentally misunderstood as hatred. Particularly in acquiesced societies like Cross River State where passivity is considered as virtue. While hatred is the very toxic feeling of intense dislike for someone or something, criticism on the other hand is the expression of

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Leaders Build Systems, Systems Solve Problems BY AGBA JALINGO

As we continue to broaden the conversation around leadership in the age of personalization, it is trite to remember as, Karl Popper, one of the most influential 20th century philosophers of science, once eloquently stated that, “All life is problem-solving.” I’ve often contended that the best leaders are the ones who know how to solve

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Elections Cometh, Are You A Student ? BY AGBA JALINGO

Your lecture room is an eyesore. With students sitting on the floor. 500 students stuffed in a lecture hall built for 50. No additional facilities. No public address system. No ventilation other than the broken 4×4 windows. Students sitting by window rails and hanging along the corridor, stretching their necks to try to hear what

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You Need To Sin, To Live BY AGBA JALINGO

Just like the astronaut requires a space jacket before going to space, one of the most important requirements to come and live on planet Earth, apart from Oxygen, is SIN. Without sin, no soul can incarnate on Earth. The moment your spirit accepts to take up flesh and come to live on planet Earth, it

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Why I Am Against Zoning In Cross River State BY ISO BASSEY

The political season has come around full swing in Cross River State, and no other subject is dominating the headlines more than the subject of zoning. Arguments around zoning have been so predominant that very little mention is given to the suitability and competence of those aspiring to govern four million people. Let me give

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Bye-Bye To Governance, Welcome To Politics BY AGBA JALINGO

2022 has arrived with the expected political declarations to take power to next year, and aspirants are all hitting the roads and combing the rusty clefts they abandoned in the last four years and oiling them for power grab. The people too are making a kill, feasting from the spoils of the quadrennial rendezvous of

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Of Political ‘Capacity’ And Other Political Lingo BY VENATIUS IKEM

One of the latest entrants in the political lingo of Cross River State is “capacity”. It came not too far after “digital,” and has been more or less running concurrently with it. I don’t know their etymology, but I know their history is intrinsically linked with the joke that governance in Cross River State has

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The Concept Of Zoning And Cross River State Polity BY USANI UGURU USANI

I am conscious of the various interpretations that will arise from this contribution as a consequence of whom the author is. If on this account, I fail to offer an opinion, then I will be morally unfit for the very insinuations that should have dissuaded me from putting forward this account. Background It is necessary

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