In politics it is often said that perception is reality. In street wisdom similarly it is said that there is no smoke without fire. The last six months of Gov Ayade’s daring steps in effecting what in his mind must be revolutionary changes in approach to governance has left many a citizen in my view…
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From a shortlist of ten movies in the Short Films Category, the movie, “Awaiting Lazarus”, directed by Cross River State native, Orok Otu Duke Jnr, has won the Best Film and Best Actor (Foreign) at the 2015 Eko International Film Festival, held at the Siverbirds Cinema, Victoria Island, Lagos, November 21, 2015. Described in film…
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Edith Newman Amadi, the Abi Local Government Council boss has expressed excitement over the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the Canadian University Services Overseas, CUSO, International to train and empower Abi youths and women. Signing the MoU recently in Calabar on behalf of Abi Local Government Area, the Council boss observed that the…
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While I appreciate your concerns in the above titled letter (on Facebook) to the Speaker and members of the Cross River State House of Assembly, I am still not aware if this letter was formally sent to the House of Assembly before it became public on the social media. I sincerely find it disturbing that…
It has been revealed that the Cross River Geographic Information Agency, CRGIA, over a period of one year, increased the annual internally generated revenue of the state through land transactions from N300 million to N1.8 billion. This disclosure was by the Director-General, CRGIA, Clement Oshaka, while making a paper presentation on “GIS Application in Land…
No modern democracy is completely devoid of elements that constitute a reactionary mechanism. These reactionary mechanisms are balms created by the system to spice up itself for preservation else, the system will, either, fall into ruins or change into a monster that cannot be controlled. Most times, these reactionary elements come in form of critics…
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