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Pains of widowhood in Nigeria

Ihesiulo Grace 0
In every society, there are women of all age categories whose husbands are late. They constitute a significant component of every country’s population. Widows’ welfare, conditions of living and treatment vary from one society to another. Available statistics indicate that Nigeria has over eight
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The Color of Party Ideology(II)

Ihesiulo Grace 0
Political ideology is not always as intrinsically virtuous as political scientists would want us to believe. Politicians are ideologues only of the political beliefs or values that they have elected to be motivated or guided by. To partisan idealists ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ or ‘good’ and ‘bad’ are not always the same. They differ according to […]
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Ten years after Lamidi Adedibu

Ihesiulo Grace 0
It has been ten years since the self-styled “strong man of Ibadan politics”, Chief Lamidi Ariyibi Akanji Adedibu, died. He died on June 11, 2008. I do not recall seeing many tributes or advertisements in the newspapers or other media commemorating his life and legacy. There was no public lecture or any important statements from […]
Kenya
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What Happened to Mama Taraba?

Ihesiulo Grace 0
I had to read the story twice to be sure that the minister had not overdosed on the remedial political treatment she received at the hands of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Did she actually say that the APC will rule forever? Last September, the Minister of Women Affairs, […]
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Nigeria can work, but only if…

Ihesiulo Grace 0
To say Nigeria as a nation totters on the brink, is to be economical with the truth. Never in the history of Nigeria as the nation faced such deep-rooted schisms as it currently faces. Not even in the tumultuous years of the 1960s prior to the first military coup, and the tribal/ethnic motivated counter coup […]
Kenya
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APC Makes PDP Party of Saints

Ihesiulo Grace 0
Offices of the All Progressives Congress (APC) across the country are still littered with broken bones, bloodied faces and shredded tallies from the party’s ward congresses last weekend. In virtually all the states, the ward congresses were marred by violence, with special drama in Anambra where the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chris Ngige, and […]
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Bill Gates as “a wailing wailer”

Ihesiulo Grace 0
“I do not enjoy speaking to you this bluntly when you have been gracious enough to invite me here…” – Bill Gates. Mr. Bill Gates, Microsoft founder, friend of Nigeria and one of the richest men in the world was in Nigeria recently, but he ended up violating the official interpretation of “table manners” in […]
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Soyinka and Nigeria’s dinner with the devil

Ihesiulo Grace 0
By Reuben Abati Professor Wole Soyinka was keynote speaker at the maiden annual lecture of the Ripples Centre for Data and Investigative Journalism held in Lagos on March 15. Topic: “Rebuilding Trust in a Divided Nigeria: Can Nigeria be fixed?” The Nobel Laureate did not disappoint. His presentation titled “From Miyetti to Haiti: Notes from […]
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Africa: A continent without democrats

Ihesiulo Grace 0
By Reuben Abati The second wave of democratization in Africa, beginning in the 80s, and the gradual establishment of democracy as the new normal in the continent brought much hope and excitement. As we have seen in the recent intervention by the military in Zimbabwe, coup d’etats have become unpopular and unacceptable in the entire […]
Falana
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NASS lacks the power to fix election dates

Ihesiulo Grace 0
By Femi Falana Since the return to democratic rule in 1999, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has conducted the general elections on a two-tier or three-tier basis. Even though the National Assembly had attempted in the past to use the Electoral Act to alter the sequence of elections fixed by the INEC, it did […]
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Dana by road to Abuja

Ihesiulo Grace 0
I had almost overcome my fear of flying when the news broke that the door of a Dana Airline flight from Lagos to Abuja fell off on touchdown. In a pathetic back-and-forth with passengers who had shared their experiences on social media, the airline’s management did not deny that the door fell off. Instead, it […]
magu
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On EFCC’S Magu and the CCT chairman

Ihesiulo Grace 0
By Mohammed Adamu The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister for Justice Mr. Abubakar Malami recently issued a query to the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Magu asking the latter to explain why the Commission filed corruption charges against the Chairman of the Code of Conduct […]
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Judges, the law and our democracy

Ihesiulo Grace 0
To expand the democratic space in Nigeria and to ensure the legitimacy and stability of our democratic process, the rule of law, perhaps the supremacy of the law, anchored on constitutionalism and a progressive, liberal and developmental construction of the law, may be our best bargain, the latter in particular in the face of a […]
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Dynamics of managing political parties

Ihesiulo Grace 0
By Yakubu Dogara I am delighted for the opportunity to make these remarks as a Guest of Honour at this very important retreat on the Dynamics of Managing Political Parties in Nigeria. I am particularly impressed by the topics that will be covered during this Retreat. These include, Political Parties and Party administration; Membership recruitment […]
Gbenga
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What exactly is Babangida saying?

Ihesiulo Grace 0
BY Reuben Abati The drama, the controversy, the confusion, the double entendre, attended by seeming cowardice, that grew around a statement, perhaps the statements, purportedly issued by former military President Ibrahim Babangida on Sunday, February 4, is absolutely unnecessary, unfortunate and utterly avoidable. A statesman, the new role in which President Babangida has