For four years, Cally Air ✈️ flew over 400 million nautical miles across the pages of social media. Taking off from Twitter and landing on Facebook and from Facebook to Instagram. And sometimes touching down in Snapchat and Tiktok. Then last year, after all the hype and propaganda, came the pomp. Two Boeing planes were
I’ve been approached several times by concerned persons who feel that as a journalist, I am supposed to stay out of politics and concentrate on investigating and writing the news. They have also been a lot of preachment about how journalism and politics are parallel. Hon. Legor Idagbo, my Rep, also insinuated this sentiment yesterday
To say the least, I was very shocked today, when I came online to see the ballistic rejoinder my MP in the Nigeria House of Representatives, Barrister Legor Idagbo aimed at Agba Jalingo and myself. Speaking for me, my shock stemmed from the fact that in the last couple of years, I’ve had a cordial
The year has been a very peculiar one. A tough one for everyone. For that reason alone, I’ve been very careful or should I say, deliberately stayed away from being too critical of the local politicians and politically exposed (in my home State). Well, today is boxing 🥊 day 2020. A good day to throw
I read your reasons for delisting the 2,000 Civil Servants from the payroll – they were valid. By choosing to reinstate them in light of that, you did noble. Very commendable. I owe you one bottle of Jacob’s tonic wine 🍾 for that … to be delivered/redeemed when next I’m in Calabar. You should also
Cross River State birthed Akwa Ibom some 30 years ago. As someone who moved to Calabar at about that time, I have been opportuned to watch the gradual weaning and subsequent growth process of Akwa Ibom State in the years that followed and I must confess that it has been commendable especially from the turn
As far as I’m concerned, Barrister Okoi Obono-Obla’s ordeal has more to to with persecution by vindictive powerful forces than anything else. What he is going through has little to do with corruption and more to do with vendetta. He has been detained for several weeks without trial and this is subsequent to being given
Being the second of a three-part series by the author… The year has all but come to an end. I have decided to do a tripartite series on the politicians who deserve carrots and those who need sticks based on their outputs in 2019. The Carrot… There has been a lot of politicking this year