Sunday Musings: Who Told Humans They Are The Most Intelligent Creatures?
In 2011, scientists used a technique based on patterns in the number of species at each level of biological classification to estimate that there are around 8.7 million species of plants and animals in existence, including the human being. However,…
N500m Stabilization Fund: The Lie From Abuja And The Silence From Calabar
Barely forty days to the end of former Cross River Governor, Senator Liyel Imoke’s administration, in a petition dated April 16, 2015, Cross River lawyer and former presidential aide, Okoi Obono Obla, petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,…
Where Is The Cross River State Scholarship Board?
“They used to be a functional Cross River State Scholarship Board. They sourced for scholarships even outside Cross River State for students. I benefited from one of those scholarships. Board members came with scholarship forms to the University. In far…
Dear Thief, Kindly Steal With A Human Face…
Regardless of how scary it may sound, it is axiomatic that life was longer when it was slower, and as life gets faster with technological leaps, life will continue to get shorter. I don’t know the calendar or the lunar…
Sunday Musings: Social Media And The Resurgence Of African Spirituality
With the advent of social media, marginalized and vulnerable groups all over the world found a major and veritable channel of rediscovering their voices. From dispossessed aboriginals and indigenous peoples, to LGBTQ groups to gender identity groups to racial identity…
After The Commendations, When Will Ogoja Rice Mill And German Hospital Become Functional?
Immediate past Cross River State Governor, Senator Liyel Imoke visited the Ayade’s N8.5Billion Vitaminzed Rice Mill in Ogoja, along with his successor, three years ago. Governor Ayade took Imoke on a tour of the mill and while speaking to journalists,…
Tony Adinye, Cross River Pollution Control Agency And The Brutalized Orange Seller
It is no lie that Governor Ayade has created confusion in our State by giving people undeserving titles in the name of appointments and they are all hussling to create revenue points where they can survive. Tony Adinye, the so…
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…
