Village people are still contributing money to build small bridges across communities without the help of the government. Village people are still contributing their small money to build community health centers. Village people are still contributing money and building materials to construct community schools. Village people are still contributing their pennies to build worship centers.
Hate is in part what keeps us going when our lives have been put on hold. Every time there are severe disruptions in our lives, the stronger the hate we have for everything around us. Hate avails a major form of catharsis for releasing, and providing relief from such repressed emotions. Hate is also an
It’s a Monday morning and most of us are hitting the roads again with numerous burdens in our fragile hearts. The existential challenges relating to managing our debts, school fees, paying rents, feeding families, sustaining small businesses, and how to increase household income, has bequeath aches to the carapace of our minds. And I have
Continuum in life is nature’s way of taking a huge risk and hoping it will pay off. Everything in life is a continuum. Things happen in perpetuity. Nothing in life ever really dies or comes to an end. Things only change forms. We learned that in elementary science. That matter exists in different forms. Solid,
When the house has people, we crave privacy but when the house is empty, we desire company. When food is cold, we request that it should be heated and when it is served, we fan it to cool. We celebrate the dead. We even borrow to contribute to their ‘befitting’ burials and travel distances to
Not even Ben Ayade himself believed that the smooth ride he enjoyed during the past eight years could have come to a total halt in this manner – against his own wish. Yet there was absolutely nothing he could conjure in order for him to keep his smooth ride, which seemed like a birthright in
I personally think that moving forward, it should be clear to those going into office from 2023-2027, that the so-called automatic second term is now based on performance. If you don’t perform, you get fired! If the incoming Governor puts Cross River on the path of tangible development within the period, he will get