The views expressed underneath are those of the author Shortly before Ayade’s Supreme Court judgment, I was on a short visit to Calabar when my Archbishop asked that I represent him during the opening of an ultra-modern diagnostic centre built by General Ukpo, the brother of emeritus Archbishop Joseph Edra Ukpo. General Abdulsalami Abubakar…
Your Excellency, We, the representatives of the Catholic Bishops of Nigeria, bring you our cordial greetings and blessings. We desired this meeting, in order to continue the dialogue we initiated with you even before your election as President. We therefore thank you for granting us this audience, which affords us the opportunity to share with…
In 2005, former Cross River State governor, Donald Duke, successfully implemented and commissioned the Second National Urban Water Sector Reform Project, that gave Cross Riverians access to pipe-borne water and enhanced the commercial viability of CRSWBL. The cost was 198.2 million dollars, financed by the World Bank and French Development Agency. This is 2018 and…
As the build-up to the 2019 general elections continue, vocal social critic, Ray Ugba Murphy, has in a terse ten points, outlined what will be the political reality that will largely play out in 2019. See the points; In 2019, more Nigerians will vote than ever before. This is rather obvious since more Nigerians now…
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In most rural communities around us right now, day breaks stealthily and the wee hours of the morning are mostly cold, dry and cloudy. In the afternoons, the sun bakes our skins while dust is majestically wrapped around the humid blowing wind. It is of course the month of December, the gateway month to another…
Only a few weeks ago the Cross River State governor, Prof. BEN Ayade presented what was considered unprecedented in the history budget making with a whooping N1.3trillion to the state house of assembly. The size of the budget no doubt triggered a healthy debate across a broad spectrum of the society. For those well versed…
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