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JARIGBE AGOM JARIGBE: The 10th Senate Scorecard, 365 Days After!

June 13, 2024 Admin No Comments

On the 13th day of June, 2023, Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe was inaugurated as Distinguished Senator of the 10th Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. After surmounting the herculean task of going past an incumbent governor, in the polls, to become the senator, representing Cross River North Senatorial District, he was hugely distracted with post-election…

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Our ‘New’ National Anthem Is Profoundly Misguided

June 9, 2024 Admin No Comments

The recent legislative decision to resurrect the archaic anthem “Nigeria, We Hail Thee,” with the subsequent presidential assent, represents a profoundly misguided and retrogressive move. This decision, cloaked in a veneer of nostalgia, fails to appreciate the nuanced and complex identity of contemporary Nigeria. The anthem’s lyrics, replete with archaic terminology such as “tribe” and…

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BETTA EDU: Jungle Justice And Where Is Her Father & Mentor President Tinubu?

April 11, 2024 Admin 5 Comments

A few days ago I wrote an article entitled “Betta Edu; the continuity of the President’s courage”. Where I stated, inter alia, that there must be continuity in the President’s courage. It takes courage to suspend your minister, it takes courage to investigate her, it takes courage to declare what the investigation has found with…

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When The Clan Gathers For A Member!

April 3, 2024 Admin No Comments

Among my indigenous Ugep, Yakurr people, ‘Foundation ké-nöi’, is an integral communal activity that members of the paternal clan compulsorily take part in. ‘Foundation ké-nöi’, is simply the gathering of paternal clan members, at the insistence of one clan member, to inform them that the building of a house is about to be embarked on….

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Time to Bury Joseph Wayas!

March 8, 2024March 8, 2024 Admin No Comments

I read a pathetic report last weekend of how the family of the late Second Republic Senate President, Joseph Wayas, was made to pay the sum of £6,710 (more than N13 million) before being allowed to sight his body in a London morgue. Wayas died on 30th November 2021, so I assumed he had been…

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“I Am Working Hard To Reposition Unical” – Florence Obi

February 20, 2024 Admin No Comments

FLORENCE BANKU OBI, a Professor of Education, is the first female Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Nigeria. Recently, she had a radio conversation on HIT 95.9 FM, Calabar, with ace journalist, IWARA U. IWARA, dwelling on issues that are helping to define her term in office as Unical VC. Excerpts: You broke the…

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