Cross River State Governor, Bassey Edet Otu, has a message of goodwill to the former leader of Nigeria’s 7th Senate, Victor Ndoma Egba, s Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, on his 69th birthday. Otu, in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Nsa Gill, described the former Senate leader as a distinguished scholar and…
A few days ago I watched a video posted by Agba Jalingo of the iconic and historic High Court of Justice, Ogoja, engulfed by fire. Since its establishment in about 1971 with Justice Inyang who passed on in Ogoja, as pioneer Judge, the court has told stories and has been a story itself. This Court,…
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11 years after work on the Faculty of Law building in the University of Calabar began, the Federal Government, FG, over the weekend, commissioned the building. While commissioning the project, facilitated by Victor Ndoma-Egba, former Leader of Nigeria’s 7th Senate, who represented Cross River Central from 2003 to 2015, President Buhari said his administration had…
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In a particular month in 1965, I can’t remember which month exactly now, two major events happened in our young lives for those of us who were in the Catholic Church owned and run St. Martin’s Primary School, Ikom, my hometown. The Headmaster, Mr. K.E. Bassey the burly, strict, cane loving Efik man announced at…
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How time flies. In our time you knew your peer, even if by reputation, not only in your school but in other schools. Secondary schools were few as were students. We had inter school sports, debates and quiz competitions and these attracted huge audiences and spectators from the public as these events were the major…
Nigeria’s former Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba, has on the second anniversary of the death of his wife, late Amaka Ndoma-Egba, taken to his verified Facebook page, to pen words in remembrance of the deceased. Writing under the caption, “AMAKA LAURETTA NDOMA-EGBA, JUST LIKE YESTERDAY”, the widower said; “it is two years since you became an…
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