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FG urges use of local content in power projects execution   

Ihesiulo Grace 11 March 2020 0

The Federal Government has urged Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to ensure the use of local content in the execution of power projects. The Minister of State for Power, Mr. Goddy Jedy-Agba said this at the inauguration of the African Development Bank (AfDB) 200 million dollars

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2023 and Tinubu’s rumoured interest

Ihesiulo Grace 5 March 2020 0

Rumours are rumours! But, if, indeed, there is any substance or element of truth in the rumoured presidential ambition of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, then, he will have to take some serious steps for it to become a reality. Charity, they say, begins at home! For him to be sellable to the majority of Nigerians, Tinubu must metamorphose into that […]

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Sirens, convoys and the madding crowd

Ihesiulo Grace 3 March 2020 0

There is a certain apprehension when one encounters the many wailing convoys of ‘big men’, especially governors, in this country. It leaves one with gut-wrenching anger, powerlessness and, or awe, if one is the pliant and vainglorious type. It seems, despite several avowals by the police and Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), that the bawling […]

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TETFund: Beyond suspension of confab sponsorship for lecturers

Ihesiulo Grace 3 March 2020 0

Most Nigerians were shocked to hear recently that lecturers across the nation’s public tertiary institutions were diverting research grants made available to them by the Tertiary Education Fund (TETFund) to build homes, purchase cars, and engage in other frivolous activities. TETFund, which made the allegation through its director of research and development, Salihu

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Winning the battle against Sickle Cell Anaemia

Ihesiulo Grace 25 February 2020 0

The disclosure by the Coalition of Sickle Cell Non-governmental Organisations in Nigeria that at least 150,000 children are born with sickle cell disease in Nigeria every year, while about 40 million Nigerians are healthy carriers of the sickle cell gene, has heightened the need for all hands to be on deck to checkmate the disease. […]

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The increasing cases of drug abuse among Young Nigerians

Ihesiulo Grace 25 February 2020 0

Despite the campaign against drug abuse by government at all level, non-governmental organisations and individuals, Nigerian youths are getting neck deeper into the vice. The devastating consequences of drug use know no geographic, economic, social, or ethnic boundaries. Each year hundreds of thousands of people around the globe – rich, poor, educated, illiterate, male,

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Agency for rehabilitation of insurgents unnecessary

Ihesiulo Grace 24 February 2020 0

One unfortunate legacy that the bill for the establishment of an agency for rehabilitation of members of the terrorist group, Boko Haram, will bequeath Nigeria and Nigerians if it eventually passes at the Senate and House of Representatives and gets presidential assent, is an unending reign of terror by insurgent/criminal gangs who will compete in […]

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Insecurity: Buhari, Service chiefs and matters arising

Ihesiulo Grace 17 February 2020 0

In less than a month, the Senate has had cause to come hard on the Service chiefs over the exacerbating insecurity in several parts of the country. Irked by the increased insecurity across the country, the Senators had on Wednesday, January 29, 2020, called for the sack of the Service chiefs on grounds that they […]

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States and un-accessed UBEC matching grants

Ihesiulo Grace 13 February 2020 0

Not a few Nigerians were shocked to hear on Monday that a whooping sum of N73 billion set aside by the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) as matching grants remain un-accessed by state governments across the country. This is coming at a time when decayed infrastructure and dearth of adequate manpower in Nigeria’s basic education […]

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Deregistration of parties, a step in the right direction

Ihesiulo Grace 10 February 2020 0

When the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday announced the deregistration of 74 registered political parties out of the 92 parties in the country, it came as a rude shock to many Nigerians who are not well informed about the rules guiding political parties registration and operation in the country. But to those who […]

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WORLD CANCER DAY: WHAT ARE WE DOING AGAINST THIS MONSTER?

Ihesiulo Grace 4 February 2020 0

Yesterday was another international Cancer Day, when people around the world gather in different countries and cities to discuss the scrooge and create awareness on its causations, proffer remedies and how those that are in need can be assisted to get treatment or management tips. It is a thing of concern that while death from […]

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Buhari, let the Service Chiefs go

Ihesiulo Grace 31 January 2020 0

The passion with which National Assembly members debated the worsening security situation in the country on the floors of the Senate and House of Representatives on Wednesday clearly aligns with the feelings of majority of Nigerians. It is a clear indication that time is up for the service chiefs appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari since […]

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Why FG Should Scrap FERMA and Similar Agencies

Ihesiulo Grace 30 January 2020 0

The Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA) was established by Act No.7 of 2002 which was assented to by President Olusegun Obasanjo. The Agency was established to monitor and maintain all existing Federal roads in the country. The first Governing Board of FERMA was chaired by Engineer Guy Otobo and was inaugurated by then Minister for […]

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As Ihedioha returns to Supreme Court for justice

Ihesiulo Grace 28 January 2020 0

It has been confirmed that Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha, of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is approaching the Supreme Court for a review of the apex court’s judgment of January 14, 2020 which sacked him from office as governor of Imo State is a welcome development. The Supreme Court, in its ruling said the Independent […]

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On Nigeria’s Rising Judgment Debt Profile

Ihesiulo Grace 22 January 2020 0

The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), and Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami (SAN) recently said that the ministry is battling with unpaid staggering sum of N150 billion as judgment debts. He revealed this while defending the ministry of Justice’s 2020 budgetary allocation before the Senate committee on judiciary, Human Rights and legal matters. According

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Decongesting Nigeria’s Correctional facilities

Ihesiulo Grace 14 January 2020 0

To say that the decongestion of Nigerian Correctional facilities is intractable is to state the obvious. Since late 90s when the problem of overcrowding surfaced in the country prisons, efforts by various committees and successive ministers of Interior and Attorney Generals of the Federation toward decongesting the prisons are yet to yield the desire result. […]

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That Mbaka’s Reckless ‘Prophecy’ On Imo

Ihesiulo Grace 13 January 2020 0

That criticisms have continued to follow the so called prophecy by Rev. Ejike Camillus Mbaka of the adoration ministry Enugu concerning the leadership of Imo State nearly two weeks after, is clear evidence that the clergy’s action is both reckless and condemnable. Mbaka had, in a New Year message stated that the governorship candidate of […]

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Poor regulation and the Kaduna gas explosion

Ihesiulo Grace 9 January 2020 0

Last Saturday, not less than five persons died while others sustained various degrees of injury as a result of gas explosion at Sabon Tasha, Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Among those that died was professor Simon Mallam, Chairman of the Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission, NAEC. In addition, valuable properties valued at millions of […]

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The True Essence of Christmas

Ihesiulo Grace 23 December 2019 0

It is so palpable you can feel it everywhere. Another Christmas is here with us. Across the world, the birth of Jesus is being celebrated, even days before the D-Day, December 25. In China, Japan and India where majority of their citizens are not Christians, Christmas is being celebrated in big way, same with Middle […]

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EFCC’s hammer on The Sun newspapers

Ihesiulo Grace 17 December 2019 0

***The action of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in sealing-off the premises of the Sun Publishing Limited, publishers of The Sun newspaper titles, last Saturday, had jolted many Nigerians from their weekend relaxations.     A statement issued by management of the media company, after recovering from the inevitable shock from the sudden action, narrated