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The Killings Continue

Ihesiulo Grace 0
Six hundred and twenty nine people were reported to have been killed during the 2019 election cycle. Such number of deaths should have caused a state of emergency to be declared and every possible action taken to ensure that such never happens again but alas there seem to be a rabid love for blood of citizens […]
Nigeria can feed other African countries through FG’s Anchor Borrowers’ Programme – Institute
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The Magical Farm

Ihesiulo Grace 0
On the 17th of October 2019 the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Professor Yemi Osinbajo tweeted from his Twitter handle about a farm he had visited. According to the Vice President the farm was started by Reston Tedheke with a loan of 1.5m naira and today the farm is worth 1bn naira. […]
#SexForMarks: What Next?
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#SexForMarks: What Next?

Ihesiulo Grace 0
The President in a statement released after the #SexForMarks investigation that forced the Nation to focus on the prevalent sexual abuses in our institutions of learning, acknowledged the need to do more to protect women against sexual abuse and all form of discrimination that they face. He directed the law enforcement agencies to take up […]
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MONDAY X-RAY: Reinventing The Polity

Ihesiulo Grace 0
To meet the global seventeen Sustainable Development Goals envisioned by 2030, the polity requires reinvention, and by extension the economy requires structural adjustment. It would be recalled that “in September 2015, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda that includes seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (un.org).” The Goals which are
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A Picture That Brought a Thousand Worries!

Ihesiulo Grace 0
Credit: KC Nwakalor As I looked through Connected Development’s array of remarkable pictures that document the Organisation’s work, this picture instantly brought me a thousand worries. The picture of children, probably under 5, drawing water from a poorly constructed, widely gaping water-well.  The thoughts that ran through my mind were; what if the children fell […]
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#ChibokGirls: 2004 days in Captivity

Ihesiulo Grace 0
Imagine the phone ringing in the dead of the night. Imagine picking up the phone and hearing the frightened voice of your daughter telling you that they have come. Imagine asking her who have come? Then again imagine your daughter telling you that it is those whose names cannot be mentioned. For you, it is […]
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I WEEP FOR OUR COUNTRY!

Ihesiulo Grace 0
Politics is unusual in Nigeria. Democracy is crazy is Nigeria. Corruption is our albatross. The media is becoming ‘the fourth Estate of the wreck’ because of its complicity.  Bad governance is our nemesis. Indeed, things have fallen apart (apologies to late Chinua Achebe). But, good governance is our salvation. Generally, as a concept, politics is […]
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The Hypocrisy of the Nigerian Government

Ihesiulo Grace 0
President Muhammadu Buhari at the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly reiterated his government’s respect for the rule of law. He said to the general assembly, “In Nigeria, we have made significant strides to put our own house in order. We will work tirelessly to uphold due process. The rule of law remains […]
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See who is 59!

Ihesiulo Grace 0
Mathematically, Nigeria is said to be 59 years of post-independence in the sense that it was on October 1st 1960 that some foreign occupying forces (Great Britain) retreated by general consensus of both the occupier and the occupied. It was on that day that political scholars reckon that Nigeria gained flag independence with the lowering […]
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MONDAY X-RAY: National security and Sowore

Ihesiulo Grace 0
OMOYELE Sowore, owner of USA-based Sahara Reporters is reported to be in conflict or having infraction with national security. He is alleged to be leading a group called #RevolutionNow, an act which by government’s interpretation amounts to treasonable felony. Since the end of the World War I, national security had been used and still is […]
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The Invisible Curtain

Ihesiulo Grace 0
The quality of education a child gets in Nigeria today is dependent on the economic status of the child’s family and increasingly there is an invisible curtain separating children based on the economic status of their families. Once upon a time in Nigeria, children met freely across economic status. They lived in the same neighbourhoods, […]
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P&ID: Why flog a dead horse?

Ihesiulo Grace 0
Good governance can be proverbially likened to the act of striking a lightning rod when it is still as hot as ever.  This simply means that the wisdom expected from persons exercising authority over a political entity is judged by the decisive nature of judgment that is adopted at the tipping points of our national […]