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Time to stop Medical brain drain

Ihesiulo Grace 0
The recent report of about 5,405 Nigerian- trained doctors and nurses working in the United Kingdom hospitals represents a frightening dimension of brain drain in the country. Incidentally, the health sector has witnessed increasing migration of the best brain including many medical personnel trooping out of the country in search of greener pastures. This brain-drain […]
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CJN and hearing of cases

Ihesiulo Grace 0
In an effort to speed up the dispensation of justice, the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, recently directed that any case fixed for hearing before the Supreme Court must be heard and determined one way or the other on that date. The policy, as announced by the CJN, is deliberately targeted at […]
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FG’s N22.68bn to Nigeria Airways retirees

Ihesiulo Grace 0
On Monday September 24, 2018 the Supervising Minister of Finance, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, announced that President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the immediate release of N22.68 billion for the payment of outstanding retirement benefits due to the ex-workers of the defunct Nigeria Airways. It is painful that the approval came 15 years after the Nigeria Airways […]
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Interim ex-parte orders and 2019 elections

Ihesiulo Grace 0
The admonition by the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Adamu Abdul-Kafarati, to judges, asking them to refrain from granting interim ex-parte orders on political matters, appears to be the crucial directive that will shape political events in due course as we approach the 2019 polls. The CJ had disclosed on Monday at […]
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2019 polls, incumbency and surprises

Ihesiulo Grace 0
As Nigerians look forward to 2019, the year that the nation will go to the polls to either elect a new set of political leaders or re-elect those currently holding the office, the year promises to really be interesting, as current political development already gives a pointer to what to expect in the election year. […]
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Bianca Ojukwu and right to contest

Ihesiulo Grace 0
The recent attack by leadership of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) against Iyom Bianca Ojukwu, widow of late Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu , should condemned by all and sundry. This is even as the claim that the children of the late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu have resolved not to […]
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2019 polls and Electoral Act impasse

Ihesiulo Grace 0
Ahead of the 2019 general elections, political activities have picked up with political parties and aspirants for the various elective positions at the state, and federal levels putting finishing touches to their strategies to emerge victorious in the elections. But we are worried that the ground norm which will regulate the conduct of next year’s […]
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Osinbajo’s revelations and oil revenues

Ihesiulo Grace 0
In line with the declaration of the visiting British Prime Minister, Mrs. Theresa May, that Nigerians are poorest in the world, questions of the whereabouts of the Nigerian oil revenues during past administrations have come to the fore. It is noteworthy that Nigeria as the sixth largest oil producing nation presumably would stand the test […]
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Direct primary, an idea whose time has come

Ihesiulo Grace 0
The Nigerian political space is daily evolving with new ideas, development and initiative by key players aimed at making things better, yet daily people have reasons to complain about things in the practice of politics in the country that gives them concern. Why many believe that things will get better with time, it is a […]
Mutiat Alli
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Ajimobi, Ayefele’s FM house and rule of law

Ihesiulo Grace 0
The demolition of Yinka Ayefele’s property housing Fresh FM station located along Ring Road in Ibadan, Oyo State, will continue to attract public condemnation and odium for some obvious reasons. Oyo State government has claimed responsibility for the ungodly act carried out at the hour of a Sabbath Day when the matter is already before […]
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NASS, INEC Budget and 2019 polls

Ihesiulo Grace 0
For the past two weeks, uncertainty has trailed the prospect of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to adequately prepare for the smooth and hitch-free conduct of the 2019 general election based on the war-of-words and brick-bats between the executive and the National Assembly on the one hand, and between the ruling All Progressives Congress […]
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Impeachment gale: Stop this madness now

Ihesiulo Grace 0
The Monday’s impeachment of the Imo State Deputy Governor, Prince Eze Madumere, by the state House of Assembly was not only condemnable but illegal and unconstitutional. Madumere, for a long time now, has been having a running battle with Governor Rochas Okorocha, his boss, over succession bid in 2019 election. Okorocha had favoured his son-in-law […]
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Poor performance of Telcoms networks operations

Ihesiulo Grace 0
The poor performance of the telecommunication networks in the country has come to the fore again. At the recent 81st telecoms consumers parliament organisation organised by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) in Lagos, participants deplored the dismal performance of the telecommunication networks in recent time. Participants implored telecommunications consumers
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Time to revamp the textile industry

Ihesiulo Grace 0
Recent news report that the Kaduna Textile Mills, the New Nigeria Development Company (NNDC), in partnership with a Turkish firm and in collaboration with the federal government will invest $15 million to reactivate the collapsed Kaduna Textile Company is a welcomed development. The move is in line with President Muhammadu Buhari administration’s policy of resuscitating
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Return of national carrier

Ihesiulo Grace 0
The federal government has begun efforts to re-establish the national carrier, some 13 years after it liquidated the former national carrier, Nigeria Airways. The former national carrier was liquidated following its mismanagement, government control and undue interference in its affairs, resulting in huge debts and depletion of its fleet. This time around, the government