Obo Effanga is multi-talented as a lawyer, journalist and human rights activist. He holds a National Diploma in Mass Communications from The Polytechnic Calabar; LL.B (Hons), University of Calabar; called to the Nigerian Bar in March 1995 and obtained MA in Human Rights from the University of Sussex, UK.
Just after dusk yesterdayThe news filtered inThat Sadiq Daba had passed awayNever again to hear the birds sing in the morningOr even the cock crow at dawn. I first thought it might be another fake newsBut alas, I woke up this dawnTo the sound of a...
ValentineValentine’sValentine’s dayValentine’s seasonValentine’s giftAnd what else have you heard?Oh, that love is in the air, right? Yeah right!And so is COVIDHa! That one too? Since when?Since COVID-19 started.But last year...
Food is ready Scratch that, the table is set Come one, come all Come cross the river Skate the mountains and traverse the rainforest For long before now Thy adherents have had their fill And filled the church pews with belly filled Now is the time...
Following the success of the governorship election in Edo State conducted over the weekend by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), much has been said about the election as a new high recorded by the election management body. It is...
I found another treasure from my family archives. It’s a book gift from the Calabar Improvement League to my grandfather on his transfer from Port Harcourt to Lagos in 1947. My grandfather, Mr Effiom Obo Effanga worked with the Custom Service...
Gladys Mae West This is Gladys Mae West (née Brown) an American mathematician born in 1930. What is today known as Global Positioning System (GPS) is linked to her work through the mathematical modeling of the shape of the Earth, and her work on the...
Afrika, my AfrikaUna no go kee person shaWetin I dey hear so?Dem say awa Cup don answer mississippi?As in, the trophy loss goInside Cairo of EgyptThe cup just take wakaJust laidat?Ehn, just laidat!Say who die?The cup don turn to children of Israel...
To you our beloved SS3 Class of 2020 These will I say and pray about you all You began secondary school with fear of Ebola And ended with the fear of Corona. May the Good Lord bless and keep you May your anxiety transform to hope And the long period...
Undaunted by ChelseaThey spited CoronaAnd spotted a fresh CrownTo become the ChampionsAnd take home the huge CupTo give joy to J KloppAnd laughter to Liverpool
In those daysLong before the coro daysLagos was always for showAnd on point.We used to dine and wineAnd laugh and shoutBy the lagoon or the seaWe used to chop o, ehen.We used to chop Naija,Chop continentalAnd even chop the world.Let this coro just...
