Cross River North: The Carrot And Stick BY SIMON UTSU
Being the first of a three-part series by the author… The year has all but come to an end. I have decided to do a tripartite series on the politicians who deserve carrots and those who need sticks...
View ArticleCross River Central: Carrot And Stick BY SIMON UTSU
Being the second of a three-part series by the author… The year has all but come to an end. I have decided to do a tripartite series on the politicians who deserve carrots and those who need sticks...
View Article‘Efiks Are Not Bastards Nor Spoils Of War’ – Victor Bassey Writes Methodist...
An Efik native and crane operator, Victor Bassey Ackwonu has written the Archbishop of the Methodist Archdiocese of Calabar, Most Reverend Emmanuel Udofia over comments alleged to have been made by the...
View ArticleUCTH : A Death Trap Or Hospital? BY INYALI PETER
For many years, the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH) has come under serious public scrutiny over its failure to live up to its responsibility as the only tertiary health institution in...
View ArticleSir Arthur Jarvis Archibong: The Man Who Sees Beyond Tomorrow BY FRANK EDIMA
If education is expensive, ignorance is still more costly… P. B. de La Bruère – 1903 All around continental Africa, most of the countries appear to be in a state of uncertainty as there seems to be...
View ArticleEDITORIAL: This Administration Must Move Beyond Emotions
May 29, 2020 The current administration in Cross River state has just 1,095 days left in office before its statutory four year tenure elapses yet Cross Riverians have always been regaled with comical...
View Article‘Bakassi’ Widow In Photo Op With Governor Ayade Was Not Given A House – Hear...
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The woman in the Photo op with Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River shared by his aides during the commissioning of 52 housing units has not been given a house. Findings by...
View ArticleBakassi Returnees: How Ayade Wept, Promised, Delivered On Housing Estate BY...
He came as a leader whose fate was inextricably intertwined with the displaced and dispossessed people of Bakassi. At every forum, Governor Ben Ayade wrenched quite a volume of tears enough to form a...
View ArticleUnveiling Efem Ubi: The Man The Cap Fits At The Helm Of NIIA BY MISSANG OYAMA
Drawing from communal living in ancient South Africa, there was a popular expression that has remained evergreen in human interactions. It is, “Umntu, ngumntu ngabantu”, meaning a person is person...
View ArticleUNICAL Vice Chancellorship Race: Professor Joseph Ele Asor – An Ode To The...
The University of Calabar (fondly called UNICAL) was first established as the Calabar campus of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN). It was in 1975 that the Federal Military Government announced...
View ArticleDear Governor Ben Ayade, What Will You Be Remembered For? BY ELIAS OZIKPU
You may have been tired of reading my essays about your uninspiring leadership as governor of our state, but you should be prepared to read tons of them, not just from me but from other Cross Riverians...
View ArticleUNICAL Vice Chancellorship Race: Professor Joseph Ele Asor – The Perfect Man...
The University of Calabar situated in Cross River State, South-south Nigeria, is one of Nigeria’s second generation and foremost Federal Universities. The University of Calabar was a campus of the...
View ArticleThoughts On Nigeria’s Development Journey And The Fallacy Of Hopelessness BY...
Being a paper presented at the second distinguished public lecture of the Department of Educational Administration and Planning, University of Calabar by Venatius Ikem Esq. on Tuesday, May 14, 2019....
View ArticleAPC In Need Of Rebranding BY OKOI OBONO-OBLA
Out of concern for the not too encouraging current state of our dear party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, I will be sharing my personal experience in the proper management of a political party...
View ArticleNow That Ayade Earmarks N24 Billion For COVID-19 BY AGBA JALINGO
Governor Ayade of Cross River state has earmarked N24billion for COVID-19 relief and recovery. The figure was contained in the reviewed 2020 Budget of Olympotic Merristemasis sent to the State House of...
View ArticleThe Result Of PDP Congress In Cross River State Is Not The End Of The World...
Listening to people talk about the upcoming State Congress of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Cross River State, one would think that it is armageddon or the flip side of epiphany, or even D –...
View ArticleBetween FG, NDAF And The Odukpani – Ikot Ekpene Road BY OTU OTU ITA
The deplorable condition of Odukpani – Itu – Ikot Ekpene road have brought untold hardship to commuters plying that road. The impassable state of the road is responsible for the public outcry in recent...
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