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Donald Duke Cuts Deal With AMCON, UBA To Save Ikoyi Property

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Former Cross River State governor Donald Duke yesterday, Monday, told a Federal High Court in Lagos that his N537, 334,360.77 debt to Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, AMCON, will be sorted out in less than 12 hours. Edoigiawerie Omoruyi, Duke’s counsel, told Justice Nicholas Oweibo that he had approached AMCON with a promise to liquidate…

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Goddie Akpama/Asuquo Ekpenyong Jr Faceoff: “You Threatened Me,… I Did Not”

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Politician and social commentator, Goddie Akpama has maintained in a widely circulated write up that Asuquo Ekpenyong Jnr, former Finance Commissioner to Cross River State governor, Ben Ayade, has threatened his life. Akpama maintains that, “… on the night of August 26, 2019 at about 9:01, 9:09 and 9:16pm my phone rang and I picked…

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Agba Jalingo’s Persecution, Cross River State And My Take!

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The unlawful arrest and persecution of Agba Jalingo, Editor-in-Chief/Publisher of CrossRiverWatch for trying to hold the Cross River State government accountable, is one that must be condemned by all well meaning citizens, we must all rise now to stand against it. No democracy anywhere in the world is taking one’s government to task a crime….

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Buhari Shocks Cross River, Appoints Goddy Agba Junior Minister

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While hopes were high in Cross River State that ministerial nominee, Goddy Jedy Agba, will be assigned a major ministerial portfolio by President Muhammadu Buhari, the President early today at the swearing in of new ministers in Abuja, appointed Agba as Minister of State, Power, widely perceived as a junior ministerial position. Widely touted to…

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Frankland Briyai’s Governorship Ambition Is Quite Shocking!

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On August 5, 2019 the immediate past Resident Electoral Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), for Cross River State, Dr. Frankland Briyai, made public his desire to contest in the upcoming governorship election in November this year in Bayelsa State. Quite shockingly, the long rumour of his ambition/interest came shore, for the first…

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OKOI OBONO-OBLA – Another Case Of Killing Our Prophets?

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When I was seeing case upon case being thrown up by Chief Okoi Obono-Obla and his Special Presidential Investigation Panel on Recovery of Public Property (SPIP) involving highly placed and connected Nigerians from the big man and woman at Petroleum Equalization Fund (PEF) who had a mere N3B in their bank accounts to the two…

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