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Understanding Ayadesian Theory Of Expanded Government BY LINUS OBOGO

By CrossRiverWatch Admin During recessions, the public gets frightened and holds back on spending, resulting in more layoffs, which in turn produces less spending in a vicious circle of economic decline”. The above quote from one of British most influential economists of the 20th century, John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), was a warning about the danger

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The Essence of Government And The Role Of The Civil Service BY VENATIUS IKEM

By CrossRiverWatch Admin Yesterday, I wrote in my piece on this platform, Our Tenured god etc, where I posited that rather than appointing useless money sharing behemoths in the name of boards of non existing government agencies , government should rather be employing fresh hands into the civil service to enhance and regenerate it for

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Joe Agi vs. Ayade: PDP Cannot Approbate And Reprobate At The Same Time BY NEHEMIAH ABANG

By CrossRiverWatch admin I have read with laughter the commentaries that followed the stage performance that played out in the last Supreme Court sitting in the above case. I will not attempt to pre-empt the outcome of the case as this will be prejudicial to the administration of Justice and unprofessional. But am constrained to

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The Senator Ndoma Egba That I Know BY IFERE PAUL

By CrossRiverWatch admin My attention has been drawn to a publication on “The Nation Newspaper” of August 3rd, 2016 by a group that called itself Niger Delta Volunteers (NDV). It was signed by Commander Ekpo Ekpo, who is the group spokesperson. Others signatories are Commander Henry Etete, who is the spokesperson NDPLF, Commander Asuquo Henshaw,

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Innovativeness In Designing National Solutions To Constituency Development BY VICTOR NDOMA–EGBA

Being the text of a paper presented by Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba OFR CON SAN, at the National Summit on political representation and constituency and zonal intervention service organized by the House of Representatives and Conference of Speakers. Facilitated by National Institute for Legislative Studies. INTRODUCTION: Section 47 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of

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Globalizing Cross River State Economy: A Strategic Pathway Out Of The Economic Challenges Nigeria Faces BY EMMANUEL ETIM

“In recognizing the challenges that we as a country face, and of course, with the meltdown in the global economy, it is evident that only states that globalize their economy can move forward.” These were the words of the Executive Governor of Cross River State, Nigeria, Sen. Prof Benedict Ayade while briefing newsmen at the

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The Day Cross River Diaspora Governor Visited The State BY INYALI PETER

Tuesday, March 30, 2016 is a day Cross Riverians especially residents of Calabar, the capital city of Cross River State will not forget in a hurry as the long awaited diaspora governor of the state, Senator Ben Ayade visited the state. In fact, the city was agog for the triumphant entry of the governor who

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Ayade’s Super Highway Is On Course BY TONY UNDIANDEYE

The 260km super highway project popularly called “signature project’’ is one of the infrastructural development initiatives of the Governor of Cross River State, Senator (Prof.) Ben Ayade. In his inaugural speech as Governor of the state, on the 29th of May, 2015, with the entire world as his witness, he announced the conceptualization of two

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