Students of various Schools across Ugep, Yakurr LGA came out in mass today to support their 'gallant' marchers in the nationwide celebration of Children's day. See pictures.
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 ...
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 Education CDS group, on Thursday March 2nd, 2017, organised an inter-school mathematics competition for Junior Secondary school students in Yakurr Local Government. According to Mr Awonuga Oluwaseun, the group’s president, the last time such event was organised in the Local Government “by any CDS group or single Corps member was in 2005." The competition which had five schools in attendance was aimed at promoting academic excellence in Secondary schools. At the end of the contest, All Saints Presbyterian Academy came first with 15 points. They were closely followed by Girls Secondary School, Ugep which had 12 points. The third position was taken by Government Secondary School, Ijiman with 9 points. The winners were presented with certificates endorsed by the National Youth Service Corps. Present at the event were the Yakurr LGA Local Government Inspector, Mr Dominic Brown, the C.L.O of Yakurr LGA, Mr Michael, the president of Publicity CDS group, Mr Lawal Temitayo and member...
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