By Magnus Effiong The Palace of the Obong of Calabar at Efanga Nsa Street, Calabar South, was agog on Friday as the First Class Monarch, His Eminence Edidem Ekpo Okon Abasi-Otu V, inducted HRH Etubom Ekong Esu Effa as the Etubom of Adiabo Okutikang House in Western Calabar. Others also inducted as Otuekongs were ace…
By Our Reporter It was a gathering of who is who at the Christian Central Chapel Int’l, aka Faith Mansion World Centre in 8 miles, Calabar on Saturday, October 26, 2024 as the political class, Christian and traditional leaders and indeed unprecedented crowd of worshippers flooded the Church to witness the elevation of the then…
By Our Reporter It was a gathering of who is who at the Christian Central Chapel Int’l, aka Faith Mansion World Centre in 8 miles, Calabar on Saturday, October 26, 2024 as the political class, Christian and traditional leaders and indeed unprecedented crowd of worshippers flooded the Church to witness the elevation of the then…
By Magnus Effiong Gov. Bassey Otu of Cross River State has presented a budget estimates of N498 billion, christened ‘Budget of Sustainable Growth,’ to the State House of Assembly for 2025. Otu said the sum of N328 billion, representing about 68 per cent of the total budget size, was allocated to capital expenditures while N170…
By Joseph Kingston William Shakespeare once said that ‘the heavens themselves blaze forth the birth of kings.’ This postulation emphasizes that each time an extra-ordinary personality is born into the earth planet, even the planetary systems react in a special way to announce the entry of that child into the sphere of human. The Holy…
By Edet-Honesty Effiong This is my second theme on the 64th Independence anniversary of Nigeria. And just as I did in the first piece, I am still tempted to ask the same question whether we have cause to celebrate at 64. Placed side by side her contemporaries in South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and even China,…