The billboards have lit up the Calabar, landscape, announcing with gusto that the “Jesus Or Nothing” crusade is coming to Calabar, Cross River State, on September 12, 2025, at The Dome, Municipal Garden, courtesy of Kingdom Stars Gospel Centre. Peter Inyang, who pastors this upscale church which recently built and handed over a bungalow to…
The road to Ugep, in better-governed countries, should have been a ten-hour love affair between man and landscape, a smooth, lazy dance of asphalt from Abuja’s orderly chaos into the green bosom of home. But this is Nigeria, my friend, where even a simple road trip can audition for a Nollywood tragedy. Mine became a…
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In Yoruba mythology, Abiku is the tragic spirit-child—born only to die, again and again, returning with cruel persistence to the wombs of grieving mothers. It is a child whose fate is not to live but to haunt, to mock hope with a cycle of futile rebirths. The saga of Cross River’s 76 oil wells—snatched, ceded,…
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ABSTRACT: This paper offers a reasoned rejoinder to criticisms surrounding the appointment of Nentawe Goshwe Yilwatda as the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Contrary to prevailing allegations that his prior service in the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) jeopardizes the neutrality of the Commission, this analysis contends that his emergence as party…
In the past few weeks, I’ve been inundated with calls from Political Leaders in Obubra/Etung Federal Constituency, across Political divides, following my assessment of Mike Etaba’s abysmal and grasping 10 years in office. In the course of these conversations, there is always a convergence in the fact that the people are tired of the kind…
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In Law it is correct to say that the Judgment of the Nigerian Supreme Court is FINAL . However, where a Judgment was procured by error of Facts, misrepresentation of critical information and data, the court inclusive of the Supreme Court has the powers and duty to overule itself. The decision of the Supreme Court…