CROSS KOPA YAKURR

In this whole national conundrum, one would rather think it would be impossible to see anyone associating with it. It’s then surprising to see those who are happy and even celebrate these acts of economic terrorism. They see all these atrocities through ethno-political spectacles. They’re still bitter their candidate lost in the polls last year and have consequently been on an auto-criticism mode. Any positive feat by this administration saddens them while a travesty of that gladdens them. Therefore, these attacks are solaceful to their weary hearts! In another category are those who have set out to exploit the situation to their advantage. In a recent news report that came to the consternation of many Nigerians, some South South Governors sans those of Edo and Cross River states allegedly, and shamelessly so, offered to ‘end' the escalations citing the drop of investigations into the corrupt activities of the bigwigs in the region as the criterion. How preposterous!...

UGEP New Yam festival (LEBOKU New Yam Festival) is held every year in the month of August, to honour the earth goddess and the ancestral spirits of the land. Nobody eats new yam until same had first been offered to these powers. New yam festival celebration differs in name and structure from one community to another. It takes the coloration of the very community it is celebrated at any given time. It is not surprising neither is it out of place because Cross River is a melting pot of culture and languages. This, merely lends credence to the fact that many communities in the state speak different dialects, hence the diverse culture. “Umor Otutu” Ugep, with an approximate landmass of 141/2 square kilometers, accommodating a sizeable, number of 148 villages and a population of about 205,823, before the 21 century. ‘Umor Otutu” christened Ugep by the early demographers and anthropologists like G.I. Jones Pitchard among others, is the largest native town east of the ...

Italian champions Juventus have confirmed the big money arrival of Gonzalo Higuain from Napoli. “Juventus Football Club can today confirm that it has purchased the registration rights of Gonzalo Higuain for €90 million, payable in two financial years,” the 2014/2015 UEFA Champions League losing finalists announced on their official website on Tuesday. “The player has agreed a five-year contract with the club.” The Argentina striker, 28, scored a record 36 Serie A goals last season for Napoli. Higuain has been subject to a lot of speculations and rumors all along and will definitely be delighted to wear the famous black and white Jersey for the 'Old lady' this coming season.

The local government inspector for corps members serving in yakurr local government area,  Mr Dominic Brown has picked a date for the monthly clearance.  The clearance for the month of august will hold on the 1st day of august,  2016. It'll be the first time that clearance will hold on a Monday as the LI gets set to oversee his 3rd clearance with the serving corps members. The time is of course from 9am at the Yakurr LG council, Ugep.

Chelsea midfielder John Mikel Obi has been named in Nigeria's final 18-man squad for the 2016 Olympics in Rio. The 29-year-old Nigeria captain is one of the squad's permitted quota of three players over the age limit of 23. Watford's Odion Ighalo, Kelechi Iheanacho of Manchester City and Arsenal's Alex Iwobi miss out having not been released by their clubs. The men's tournament - won by Mexico at London 2012 - begins on 3 August, two days before the opening ceremony. Those selected for the Games would miss much of the English pre-season and potentially the start of the Premier League and this has proved a sticking point between clubs and country. With many teams not releasing players goalkeeper Daniel Akpeyi, who plays in South Africa, is the only other overaged player on the Nigeria list for The Games. However, Mikel is excited by the prospect of playing in Brazil, posting on his Instagram page: "First part of Chelsea pre-season done. Off to Atlanta to j...

Times have changed. Human beings, understanding the regularly renewed time-induced imperative for civilisation, have always developed, with ingenuity, coping cum adaptive strategies for survival while concurrently adopting sophisticated methods and technologies to surpass the environment. We erect structures wherein we put our kids and call them schools, we put some adults on our payroll and name them teachers, we even create various platforms for unbounded networking and socialisation and we pigeonhole them social media. In essence, we have over the years and more particularly in this information age, Century the 21st, built systems and institutions that regularly acquaint us with appropriate rules of engagement together with standardised and acceptable socio-behavioural scripts and patterns. However, and understandably so, there are people who deviate from and even fight this social order. Their actions and demands hinge them on a long, crowded and motley continuum whose both extre...

The local government inspector of Yakurr local government area, cross river state,  Mr Dominic Brown has made his intentions clear to corps members that strict measures will be taken against those who fail to avail themselves from the weekly CDS meetings which hold every Thursday.  Speaking before the commencement of the July Clearance exercise,  he stressed that he won't tolerate indiscipline among corps members especially in terms of development to their communities which is of course one of the three cardinal points on the NYSC Scheme. Query letters were issued to defalters having failed to comply by the attendance rule. He also welcomed all batch A corps members fully into the local government and encouraged them to be of good conduct and emulate  how the good crop of batch B members behave so as to get accustomed to the system.