Monday, May 13, 2024
By Robert Jerus Your reputation is crucial to generating opportunities and achieving your targeted objectives. But to build a solid reputation, you need to undertake deliberate work, both within yourself and with others. Reputations are often created accidently, by rumor, gossip and unexpected publicity. They are influenced by exaggerations, misinformation and...

Do You Remember This Time?

By Rarzark Olaegbe Do you remember that fifteen years ago it was impossible to make a phone call in your bedroom? For you to make an international call then, you needed two things: A dial tone. And the ‘operator’s’ approval. For a local call, you needed three things: you have...
Mobolaji Caxton-Martins I have noticed with keen attention the sudden interest from a lot of organizations in Digital Marketing. It has to be said that this is indeed great news to the extent that at least these organizations can now see the need to digitize their customer engagement and journey....
Valentine Achum Calabar, the beautiful capital city of Cross River State, is arguably Nigeria’s tourism capital as well. A very good friend of mine who happens to be a Calabar indigene puts it with such prideful finality: ‘’Calabar is the Washington of Nigerian tourism, the Aso rock of tourism in...
It is over a month since the official announcement of the country’s economic recession. Economics experts have given basic definitions of what economic recession means; It is defined as a period of decline in the Nation’s economic activities; expansively, a decline in the Gross Domestic Product for two or...
By Achum, Tobechukwu Valentine   We must start to place the interest and plights of our suffering people high on top of our action agenda- J. J Rawlings In chapter four of his book Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation written in 1789, Jeremy Bentham proposed a method of working...
By Uzoma Ngozi “How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.” – Benjamin Disraeli, one-time British Prime Minister. “When your success hovers from one person to the other, it will definitely get to someone who will regard it as failure.”  – Michael Bassey Johnson, an uncommon Nigerian...
By Dr. Grace Achum The Evil of Religious bigotry in at alarming Rate in Nigeria, in recent times the Christian religion is going through theatres of the absurd. Nigeria has descended to the Hobbesian state of nature, where life is “short, nasty and brutish. Nigeria is a nation of two great...
BY YOMI BADEJO-OKUSANYA Recently I had to take a trip to the United Kingdom and was faced with the challenge of which airline to fly based on my schedule and pricing. Eventually, largely swayed by the renewed sentiment of ‘Buy Nigeria, I settle for Arik Airline, the self-professed ‘Wings of...
BY: GRACE EKPOANWAN ACHUM Cross River Capital city has come under threats of an epidemic, and security threats no, apology to failure of the relevant authorities to clear heaps of refuse on most of the metropolitan busy roads. Checks revealed that overflowing of refuse dumps and blocked drainages as well as...