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MONDAY X-RAY: Nigeria And Elections Miscellany (II)

Ihesiulo Grace 23 September 2019 0

This is the concluding part of the piece started last week. Unemployment is one issue that has made a mockery of efforts of successive administrations towards ameliorating poverty and insecurity. Unfortunately, the solution does not appear in sight. None of the political parties was able to

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‘East or West, Home Is Best’

Ihesiulo Grace 20 September 2019 0

As staff of the late MKO Abiola’s defunct ‘Concord Press of Nigeria, CPN, I was one of 13 State House Correspondents on the advance team of General Ibrahim Babangida’s State Visit to Germany in 1992. And that was barely two years after the historic fall of the ‘Berlin Wall’ and the reunification of the two […]

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Great Green Wall: Rethinking Climate Change in Nigeria

Ihesiulo Grace 19 September 2019 0

The Great Green Wall project, led by the African Union, is an audacious call to rethinking Climate Change. The African-led initiative aims to grow an 8000km new world wonder across the entire width of the Continent to transform the lives of millions living on the frontline of climate change. With the increasing global concerns about […]

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#JusticeForFUOYE

Ihesiulo Grace 18 September 2019 0

The video of Policemen shooting at fleeing citizens is enough to send shivers down anyone’s spine. That the shooting was at defenceless students protesting lack of electricity makes one heartbroken. Is it a crime to be a Nigerian? Is it a crime to be law abiding? The students of Federal University OyeEkiti embarked on a […]

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We must fix education to fix Nigeria (II)

Ihesiulo Grace 17 September 2019 0

At the foremost university of Nigeria, the female hostels within the campus do not have functional toilet facilities just as other equally key amenities like water and electricity supply are very poor. The same can be seen from the University of Abuja which is just a stone throw from the seat of power. Also, appointments […]

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Why winning the UN SDGs Global Award is important to Nigeria

Ihesiulo Grace 12 September 2019 0

On a sunny day in 2015, global leaders gathered at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, to review and adopt a more comprehensive and transformational development agenda that outlines a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aimed at eradicating poverty in all its forms and ensuring that no one is left behind in […]

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Mohammed Adoke Writes Back…

Ihesiulo Grace 11 September 2019 0

The Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Administration in Nigeria (2010 – 2015) has generated quite a number of post-tenure publications which significantly, in varying degrees of articulation, veracity and delivery shed light on key developments during that momentous phase in Nigerian politics. The books under reference offer accounts of individual experiences or outsider

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Reflection on the Future of Public Broadcasting in Africa and Asia

Ihesiulo Grace 11 September 2019 0

Are state and public broadcasters in Africa and Asia, nay most of the developing countries including ours not losing their essence and values? I am forced to embark on this rhetoric because of the discernible shrinking audience base, unappealing content, weak financial backbone and doubtful credibility of state and public broadcasters in many development countries. […]

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Has the President Spoken?

Ihesiulo Grace 11 September 2019 0

The President and Commander-in-chief of the Federal republic of Nigeria is the one who swore to devote himself to the service and well-being of the people of Nigeria. The President as head of government has the primary responsibility of ensuring that lives and properties of every Nigerian citizen are protected both home and abroad. When […]

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We must fix education to fix Nigeria

Ihesiulo Grace 10 September 2019 0

Few days back, I had a brief stopover at the premises of the Imo state university in Owerri, and the sights and sounds that yours faithfully perceived and heard were frightening and disappointing at the same time. The first shocking phenomenon I noticed was the rapidly declining standards of physical infrastructures and the near- total […]

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What’s with the word Revolution?

Ihesiulo Grace 4 September 2019 0

What is with the word REVOLUTION that gets many worked up and agitated? Is it the picture of death and anguish it conveys? Is it the stench of blood and scattered limbs it evokes? Can there be a different revolution from the one that evokes such feelings? Is it possible to have a bloodless revolution? […]

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Peter Drucker And The Things That Changed

Ihesiulo Grace 3 September 2019 0

My favorite passage from the many essays by the 20th Century management theorist, prophet of customer-centricism, and dialectician, Peter F. Drucker, on the subject of change and innovation has to be his argument that we now live in a modern era where everything changes at the speed of light. To be able to cope in […]

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IDPs connote leadership failure

Ihesiulo Grace 3 September 2019 0

Nigeria is one place that is both fascinating and intriguing.  Nigeria my Country is fascinating because of the large number of human beings inhabiting the geographical space that at given time are some of the best people to govern anywhere in the World. Nigerians are mostly worshippers in organised religious groups whereby they are indoctrinated […]

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Remembering Adebowale Adefuye (1947 -2015)

Ihesiulo Grace 29 August 2019 0

On August 27, 2015, that is four years ago, Nigeria lost Professor Adebowale Adefuye, one of our most dedicated public servants, a fiercely patriotic, loyal and hardworking diplomat and an accomplished academic who brought to every assignment such level of energy and panache that won him the admiration of all and sundry including his critics. […]

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Africa’s History and the perils of degrading the Rule of Law

Ihesiulo Grace 26 August 2019 0

The rule of law is undergoing chastening times in many African countries as rulers and their parties – struggling to hang on to power – look for convenient devices to eliminate the uncertainties associated with democratic competition, kettle their opponents (both real and imagined), disrupt vocal civics and dismantle legal constraints to the abuse of […]

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RANDOM MUSING ON ‘REVOLUTION’ (II)

Ihesiulo Grace 14 August 2019 0

By Mohammed Adamu The law –for all its vaunted rectitude- has not always strictly been about what is ‘right’ or what is ‘wrong’. It has always been about what is permissible from what is not. Nor are the conventional norms regulating electoral democracy some kind of Mosaic tablet hauled down from Mount Sinai unto the […]

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PENCIL’S CORNER: Then Stop Ruminating

Ihesiulo Grace 17 July 2019 0

So I noticed that when people get me upset, the first thing I do is to squeeze my face and bury myself in my writing. Whether it is my husband, family members, working staff, people on the street or even my dogs. When I get mad, I tend to run a slight fever, get extremely […]

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Nduka Obaigbena at 60: reading the heart of his art

Ihesiulo Grace 16 July 2019 0

Only few Nigerians have earned a national acclaim with their first names. Those who are old enough still will remember the late Nigeria’s former Head of State, General Ramat Mohammed. He was popularly known by his first name, Murtala. Even after he was assassinated in an abortive military coup in 1976, the name Murtala has […]

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The conscience of a nation

Ihesiulo Grace 12 July 2019 0

Louis Odion The cell-phone beeped frantically. With the caller ID with-held, it was easy to surmise that it was either a foreign call or someone preferring anonymity. Pressing the receive button, my hunch was dead right. The baritone voice was unmistakable: it was the literary lion himself roaring from his den on the other side […]

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Pencils Corner with OMENESA: THE ROAD

Ihesiulo Grace 3 July 2019 0

I woke up from a dream this morning, that I titled, ” Expectation”. In this dream, many of my needs were not met. As I stood stranded in the woods, waiting for ‘Expectation’ to rescue me, I gave the benefit of the doubt, that ‘Expectation’ may not even know the way to save me. So […]