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  • #JariCares Health Insurance Scheme Yields Result As Beneficiary Delivers And Named Baby, Jarigbe Aliyu

    #JariCares Health Insurance Scheme Yields Result As Beneficiary Delivers And Named Baby, Jarigbe Aliyu

     

    The impacts of JARI CARES Insurance Scheme has started yielding results as one of the beneficiaries of the scheme who resides in Ogoja, Mrs Munira Mohammed Aliyu, delivers a baby boy yesterday 5th May, 2025 at the General Hospital, Ogoja.

    Mrs Aliyu is one of the 500 constituents who benefited from the JariCare Health Insurance Policy, financed by Sen Jarigbe Agom.

    According obtained from the JariCare Health Insurance Scheme, Mrs Aliyu is one of the 90 female beneficiaries of #Jaricare who are pregnant.

    The excited Mrs Aliyu commended the goodwill of Sen Jarigbe Agom to have initiated the health insurance scheme considering the high cost of medical bills, wondered how she will have raised the money to pay the hospital bills.

    She used the opportunity and prayed God to grant the heart desires of Sen Jarigbe Agom, even as he extend his magnanimity to others who are in need, and named her child, Jarigbe Aliyu.

    Reacting to the development, the Director General of the Cross River State Health Insurance Agency, Chief Godwin Iyala, expressed satisfaction with the development and hinted that Mrs Aliyu should be discharged from the hospital without paying any money as her billed has been paid for and covered in the JariCare Health Insurance Scheme.

    A right activist and promoter of #JariCare Health Insurance Scheme, Agba Jalingo, has insisted that Health Insurance Scheme is the best way to go as medical outreaches remedial remedial measures.

    Commenting on the development, Sen Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe, represented by his Constituency Officer, Mr Egar Mgbantu, thanked God for the safe delivery of new baby and noted that JariCare Health Insurance Scheme, is not a means to repay or settle political allies, but targeted at the most vulnerable population.

    He welcomed the new baby named after him and stressed that he is more interested in providing the needed representation to his people.

  • Jarigbe Felicitates Nigerian Workers On 2025 International Worker’s Day

    Jarigbe Felicitates Nigerian Workers On 2025 International Worker’s Day

    Nigerian workers, as we celebrate International Workers’ Day with the rest of the world, I would like to use this opportunity to remind you of how you represent the excellence of our country.

    Today, Nigerians have to contend with an inflation rate of 24.23%. This spike has led to a significant increase in transportation, feeding, housing and the general cost of living in the country.

    In spite of this, you, our dear Nigerian workers, have continued to contribute your quota to the development of our country, Nigeria.

    From the keke napep riders, cab and bus drivers that take hardworking Nigerians to their workplaces. To the civil servants that ensure our ministries and parastatals run smoothly. To the restaurant owners that feed our workforce.

    I assure you, your resilience, dedication and sacrifice will be inevitably rewarded.

    Until that day comes, I, Distinguished Senator Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe, would like to say ‘thank you’ for all you do for this nation.

    Happy Workers’ Day.

    Yours Truly,
    Senator Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe,
    Representing Cross River North Senatorial District.

  • Amukwong Community Receives Contractor Handling Bridge Construction, Facilitated By Sen Jarigbe Agom

    Amukwong Community Receives Contractor Handling Bridge Construction, Facilitated By Sen Jarigbe Agom

     

    The Clan Head of Amukwong, Dr. Godwin Ekunke, alongside chiefs, elders, and youths, have formally received the contractor handling the Amukwong bridge construction in Obudu Local Government Area of Cross River State. This project was facilitated by the Senator representing Cross River North Senatorial District, Senator Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe.

    Chief Dr. Ekunke assured the contractor of the community’s full support, ensuring the safety of workers, equipment, and materials throughout their stay. He emphasized that no well-meaning member of Alege/Ugbang would sabotage the efforts to alleviate the community’s hardship caused by the bridge’s deplorable condition.

    The proposed bridge will serve as a vital link between Amukwong and other communities in Alege/Ugbang, enhancing residents’ access to essential amenities, boosting economic activities, and improving overall quality of life for constituents.

    The community expressed gratitude to Senator Jarigbe Agom for his initiative and prompt response. They pledged their support for him and his team, acknowledging the remarkable infrastructural and human capital development in Cross River North Senatorial District.

    TEAM JARI MEDIA

  • RE: Should the people of Cross River Central Senatorial District Withdraw Senator Eteng Williams?

    RE: Should the people of Cross River Central Senatorial District Withdraw Senator Eteng Williams?

     

    We have taken note of Henry Tanya’s article, which attempts to draw comparisons between Distinguished Sen Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe and Senator Eteng Jonah Williams. This article is a clear attempt to stir up controversy and create unnecessary tension.

    By solely focusing on Senators Eteng and Jarigbe, the author ignores that there are three senators representing Cross River State. This comparison is unfair and designed to drive a wedge between the two senators. It is utterly absurd to compare someone with a decade of experience in the National Assembly, like Senator Jarigbe, to someone with only two years of experience in the Senate.

    The intent behind this analysis reeks of bias, and it is wrong to single out one legislator from a group of 11 for such negative focus. Henry’s comparison also overlooks the broader picture of how our state and country are governed. It is inappropriate to bring internal party politics into this, and Sen. Jarigbe wants no part in fueling such divisiveness.

    If the focus is on service to the people, then all the lawmakers should be judged fairly based on their collective work and impact, not on divisive narratives. We advise Henry to avoid using Senator Jarigbe ‘s performance index to fuel personal ambitions or incite unnecessary conflicts and the Senator should be excused from the APC’s internal politics.

    In conclusion, instead of perpetuating divisive Rhetorics, we should focus on promoting unity and constructive dialogue. The people of Cross River State deserve fair representation, and it’s our responsibility to ensure that our leaders are held accountable for their actions, not their party affiliations or personal connections.

    TEAM JARI MEDIA

  • The Furor in Northern Cross River BY SYLVANUS USHIE

    The Furor in Northern Cross River BY SYLVANUS USHIE

    In the last 2 weeks, the political barometer in Northern Cross River has been on the rise!

    There has been agitations and permutations all linked to 2027 politics. The salvo started with the formation or rebirth of NORTHCO! A group which claims to represent the North. Practically all its members have been in office more or less continuously since 1999, yet the North of Cross River has nothing to show for their countless years in power! Yet, they have resurfaced with a claim to loving the north! Can a vulture turn into a dove?

    All their years in power, they didn’t remember the North. Is it now, for the first time that a Senator is working for the north, that these forces are trying to realign. Is it now that members of the HOR from the North are meritoriously serving the people of their various constituencies that these expired fellows want to come and spoil the flow of development in the North!

    In all their years in office, most of these prodigal politicians never went near home. They operated in Calabar. Their politics was in calabar. Even when the government of Liyel sent them home with goodies for the people, they never went home. They took rooms in hotels in Calabar where they lavished the people’s money! Those of them that were in Abuja returned only to Calabar where they stayed until they went back to Abuja. They never cared for the north then!

    These same folks were part and parcel of the rapacious Ayade Administration. An Administration that left the North worse than it met it. It is during Ayade that the ranch collapsed. It is during Ayade that the Obudu international marathon was scrapped. It is during Ayade that many roads that the people were managing were scrapped but never repaired. Yet billions were siphoned off in the name of the North!

    These men ganging up now were mostly part and parcel of that regime that destroyed the North. That very regine that set the North back. They didn’t rise then. Instead they feasted on the carcasses of their own people.

    Today that Jarigbe and co are beginning to make our people have a taste of government amenities and facilities, they are now rising so that they can once again set the North back.

    Anyway, there is nothing to worry about. We know them, they are ganging up to see how they can deceive Prince Otu so they can engage in another round of choppings. They can go ahead, but we the people, we know them.

    They cannot win anything politically. They think that the people have forgotten! The people are waiting for them. We will advice Otu to look well. If these are the people who wants to use to win elections in the North, then he has a hard road in front of him.

    We, the people of the North, we are wiser than this. And we will send them back to sender when the time comes!

    Sylvanus Ushie
    Writes from Calabar!

    Disclaimer: The opinion expressed in this article is strictly that of the author, Sylvanus Ushie, and does not represent TheLumineNews, its agent or the organization the author works for.

  • NORTHCCO, A Utopian Dream That Will Soon Blow Away BY AGBA JALINGO

    NORTHCCO, A Utopian Dream That Will Soon Blow Away BY AGBA JALINGO

     

    Ordinarily, who will not like the coming together of his people to initiate ideas that will bring good to his or her place? That person must be a retard. And retards are despicable. But how do you claim to lead people in the dark?

    The coterie of friends, strange bed fellows, acolytes, apparachiks, former this and former that, and even recent failures, who are now coalescing under the name of CROSS RIVER NORTHERN Coalition NORTHCCO, have not disclosed what their real goal is. But I can tell you for free that, it is all about politics and how to grab power, without telling us yet, what they intend to do with the power, which most of them have held at one time or the other, and left Cross River North in the bad shape it is today.

    Manifestos come before elections. Plans come before programs and implementation. Questions come before answers are given. The vision must be written down before it can be executed. Horses go in front of the carts. What is the driving force of NORTHCCO beyond politics and power grab? Someone should dare to answer that question and allow us to interrogate their answers.

    In case you don’t get me right, politics involves the processes and activities, and decisions that are made to organize and distribute power and resources in society. Politics involves interactions and competitions among individuals, groups, and institutions in order to amicably distribute power. Politics is mostly focused on the acquisition and distribution of power. Here, the elites control the levers and their intentions may not necessarily be good or pro people.

    Governance on the other hand refers to the methods, processes, and mechanisms through which decisions and policies are implemented. Governance includes managing resources, monitoring the implementation of programs and laws, and ensuring justice and efficiency in the management of public affairs. Governance focuses more on how to manage and implement decisions and policies in society and includes managerial, administrative, and supervisory processes. Unlike politics, governance deals more with expertise and measures progress not by how many polling units are won but by how society is progressing, regardless of who wins.

    Both concepts are however related because they both dwell on decision-making in society. Nevertheless, the real qualms, is the continued preference of our elites for politics far and above governance. The insatiable desire of people who have held several political positions and failed to help Cross River North progress, continuing to scramble for power, merely to oil their financial sinews.

    Why are we avoiding the governance conversation? Why do we get bored, agitated and angry once the issue of how to govern our space comes up? Why do we flare up anytime well meaning people demand a governance agenda that is clear, achievable and time bound? I repeat that, most of those parading themselves in NORTHCCO as those who want to rescue Northern Cross River, have all held important political positions in the distant or recent past, yet Northern Cross River remains the least developed in the State. Their only projects were their beautiful mansions in their villages and their SUVs. People we should be holding responsible for our underdevelopment are gathering to deceive us that they want to salvage us, yet they don’t have a salvation program that we can see.

    My joy is that there are more strange bed fellows in the NORTHCCO I saw in pictures that day in Ogoja than there are people who mean well for Northern Cross River. Many of them are only still looking for where to anchor and get some bucks. When the seeming privileges are finally shared and dusted, and they fail to get the pecuniary pecks they were anticipating, their true colors will be revealed. When infiltrators throw kites in their midst, they will poach quite a handful and set their fragile accord into turmoil. When the diverse 2027 political interests begin to tumble in, their stomachs will drive the vision of most of them who gathered there and the winds will blow the utopia away, and that will be in no time.

    Yours sincerely,
    Citizen Agba Jalingo.

  • PDP Cross River Northern Senatorial Holds Reconciliatory Meeting

    PDP Cross River Northern Senatorial Holds Reconciliatory Meeting

     

    It was a moment of ease for members of the People’s Democratic Party PDP, as leaders of the party in Northern Senatorial District, converged at the residence of Sen Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe, today Thursday 6th March 2025, to chat a way forward for the party.

    The meeting which was conveyed by the leader of the party in the state, Sen Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe, to reconcile all arrived members of the party that led to the suspension of the state party chairman, Mr Venatius Ikem.

    The leader of the party, Sen Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe, acknowledged the fact that the suspension of the party chairman had some leaders played pivotal role, was however reversed by the National Working Committee of the party. A decision which has been accepted by the executive committee members of the party from northern senatorial district. He enjoined party leaders to embrace peace and charged them to put the collective interest of the party above personal interest.

    He averred that no meaningful development can be achieved when the party is divided, called on stakeholders to bury whatever grievances that may have culminated into the disagreement that had ensued that led to the suspension of the state chairman.

    He used the opportunity to thank party faithfuls for the continuous support and charged them to be more united now than ever.

    The members representing Ogoja/Yala and Obudu/Bekwarra/Obanliku federal constituencies, Hon Godwin Offiono and Hon Peter Akpanke took turns to encourage party members to embrace peace as all the leaders have seen the need to summon them for the reconciliatory meeting.

    Akpanke used the opportunity to demiss insinuation of his defection to the All Progressive Party.

    He admonished party faithfuls to remain resolute in their support for the party as there nothing happening in the APC in the northern senatorial district of the state.

    Leaders from the five local government areas took turn to commend the party leadership in its wisdom to return the state party chairman and pledged their support for the betterment of the party.

    On his part, the state party chairman, Mr Venatius Ikem, thanked Sen Jarigbe Agom, for making it possible to convey the crowd for the all important meeting the reconciliation.

    He used the opportunity to apologized for whatever ills he may have done in the course of administering the party and pledged to be more committed to the party as he forged ahead.

  • Jarigbe Facilitates Bridge Construction In Amukwong, Obudu LGA

    Jarigbe Facilitates Bridge Construction In Amukwong, Obudu LGA

    In a bid to enhance connectivity and boost economic growth, the Senator representing Cross River North Senatorial District, Senator Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe, has facilitated the construction of a bridge in Amukwong, Alege-Ubang, Obudu Local Government Area of Cross River State.

    The old bridge, which had become a source of concern for the communities, was not only a hazard to commuters but also a significant obstacle to the socio-economic development of the area. Its deplorable condition made life difficult for residents, commuters, and farmers, who struggled to access markets, schools, and healthcare facilities.

    The proposed bridge will serve as a vital link between Amukwong, Okikwor, Ngor-Kpu, and other agrarian communities in Obudu, as well as, improve residents’ access to essential amenities, boost economic activities, and enhance the overall quality of life.

    At the handover ceremony, Senator Jarigbe’s constituency officer, Mr. Egar Mgbantul, represented the Senator and tasked JRB Construction Company, the project’s contractors, to deliver a quality and durable job that meets the local communities’ expectations and demands.

    This project is part of Senator Jarigbe’s efforts to drive development and improve his constituents’ lives, building on his track record of facilitating infrastructural projects, including roads, bridges, classroom blocks, boreholes, sports and fitness facilities, amongst others.

    Residents and stakeholders had appealed to Senator Jarigbe to rebuild the collapsed bridge, and they appreciated his prompt response. They promised to support the contractor in ensuring quality service delivery.

    TEAM JARI MEDIA

  • Jarigbe Calls On Elected Officials To Concentrate On Delivering On Their Subsisting Mandates

    Jarigbe Calls On Elected Officials To Concentrate On Delivering On Their Subsisting Mandates

     

    The senator representing Cross River Northern Senatorial District, Sen Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe, has called on all elected officials to concentrate on their subsisting mandates and noted that it was preposterous to waste so much time on conversations about 2027 general elections.

    Sen Jarigbe was reacting to the cacophony of voices that surrounds the recent controversy in the political landscape of Cross River State, with many pundits analyzing and permutating the 2027 general elections.

    Sen Jarigbe who acknowledged the sufferings of the people in the rural communities across the state, posited that those of them with various mandates, have a greater task in their hands. He stated that the major task is delivering on their social contract with their people and ameliorating the hardship being experienced by the people who voted for them.

    The law maker who took to his verified Facebook page, @Sen Jarigbe Agom, noted that “I strongly think it’s preposterous to waste so much time on conversations about 2027, when our people are suffering so much in our rural communities across the State. We should concentrate on delivering on the subsisting mandates.

    “For those who have ambitions for 2027, we should know that they have inalienable rights to express themselves. For those of us who hold various mandates, we have a greater task in our hands. The major task is delivering on our social contract with our people and ameliorating the hardship being experienced by the people who voted for us.

    “Let’s get busy! No one knows the next minute. The time is now! I refer us again to Lamentations 3:36 & 37”.

  • Jarigbe Facilitates Installation of Six Solar Powered Boreholes in Obudu, Bekwarra & Yala LGAs

    Jarigbe Facilitates Installation of Six Solar Powered Boreholes in Obudu, Bekwarra & Yala LGAs

     

    In a bid to increase access to clean water and improve living standards, the Senator representing Cross River North Senatorial District, Senator Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe, has facilitated the installation of six solar-powered boreholes in Obudu, Bekwarra, and Yala Local Government Areas of Cross River State.

    Located at Bebuagbong and Betukwel in Obudu, Ichogodo-Nyanya and Anyikang in Bekwarra, and Itega-Okpame and Nfuma Ntrigom in Yala LGA, these boreholes are expected to provide clean drinking water for thousands of residents, reducing the risk of water-borne diseases and improving overall health and wellbeing.

    According to Senator Jarigbe, this project is a direct response to his call for universal access to safe, clean, and drinkable water in Cross River North Senatorial District. “I urged constituents to report communities without access to drinkable water, and this project is a direct response,” he explained. “While not all listed communities will receive boreholes simultaneously, I remain committed to doing my best for our people”.

    Senator Jarigbe emphasized the need for a fast, durable, and quality project, particularly during the dry season. Upon completion, the projects will be handed over to the communities.

    This initiative aligns with the lawmaker’s efforts to enhance rural communities through human capital and infrastructural development projects in the Senatorial District.

    TEAM JARI MEDIA