Between Heresy And Blasphemy, Blame Father Abraham
In Christianity, the church from the start has always regarded itself as the custodian of a divine revelation which the church alone was authorized to expound under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Any interpretation that differed from the official…
Cross River And The Inevitability Of A Democratic Tripod
In Cross River, as it is elsewhere, the government has always been the behemoth. A very large and powerful organization in our everyday life. But in every functional society where the government is responsive to the people’s demands, the behemoth…
Ruminations: If Only The Emperor Had Known…
You locked me up in jail the first time for six months for doing nothing to you. You put me on a three years trial for horrible crimes like terrorism, treasonable felony, cultism and attempt to overthrow government. My younger…
Obudu New Yam Festival, Bette Vernacular And The Threat Of Extinction
Bette is the major language of the Obudu people (of Cross River State). But today in my sojourn, I have met children born in Obudu villages, who went to primary, secondary and tertiary schools in the State and even did…
Miserable Shall Remain The Reins Of Power Who Don’t Understand The Pen…
One of the first lessons students of journalism are ingrained in the classroom is, poet John Milton’s 1644 pamphlet “Areopagitica”, written in response to the British Parliament’s passage of a law requiring the government to approve all books prior to…
Obudu German Hospital – The Untold Truth…
Biostadt is a science based technology company founded by the owner of Coscharis, Mr. Cosmas Maduka. It started business in Nigeria in 1964 as CIBA–GEIGY and metamorphosed to Swiss Biostadt Limited in 2010. In 2016, Swiss Biostadt Limited, signed a…
Baby Lawyer And The Audacity Of Impunity…
The danger about copy and paste, in anything we do is that, it always ends you in big problems. Because Ayade, a sitting governor, succeeded in locking me up in prison for six months, even his younger brother, Franko and…
Still On The Cross River Rice City
(I expressed this concern three years ago, I was called names…) The excellent positive reviews and responses that have flooded the Cross River social media space for the first delivery of seedlings from the Cross River Rice City to Bayelsa,…
Sunday Musings: I Wish The Criers Were Christians And Muslims…
Nigeria is in very serious crises. Very very serious crises staring us in the face. Handlers of the State who have annexed power are working against the Nigerian State from within. The State is committing treason against itself. Working with…
Inibehe Effiong: The Vibes Smack Of Envy…
Inibehe Effiong was called to bar just over 5 years ago and his name is everywhere. He is young, hardworking, single and expected to still be cutting his teeth in the legal profession, where seniority and hierarchy is inviolable. But…
Inibehe Effiong: When The Bench Is Intimidated By The Popularity Of The Bar…
January 5, 1990, legendary Comrade Richard Akinnola, one of Nigeria’s most prolific judicial encyclopedia, did a report in the Vanguard Newspaper with the headline: “Gani Goes To Jail For Contempt.” Justice Ligali Ayorinde, then Acting Chief Judge of Lagos State,…
