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EDITORIAL: Happy Eid-el-Maulud

Ihesiulo Grace 29 October 2020 0

(Eid-el-Maulud) Today, October 29, which is equivalent to 12th Rabi’al-Awwal in the Islamic calendar, Sunni Muslims all over the world are observing and celebrating the birth of their leader, Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W), who, they believe, is the last prophet of Allah. Even though Shia Muslims

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OPINION: Nigeria’s #EndSARS protest as a revolutionary moment

Ihesiulo Grace 28 October 2020 0

Prof Tunji Olaopa It’s sad that strategic intelligence option outside of force played out in the EndSARS crisis. Nigeria must learn to raise its game in national resilience and crisis management. Recent killing was avoidable with better strategic thinking and tactical intelligence. Protest is a fundamental part of any democratic experiment. Indeed, protest represents the

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OPINION: #EndSARS and the rise of a new Nigeria

Ihesiulo Grace 28 October 2020 0

By Dakuku Peterside The drama, arson, destruction, looting and death witnessed in the past two weeks are unfortunate. The resultant loss in GDP and adverse effect on the common man and the economy as many states impose curfews and restrictions to stem the orgy of violence is very regrettable. There have been attempts by some […]

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OPINION: #ENDSARS – What’s ethnicity got to do with it?

Ihesiulo Grace 28 October 2020 0

By Promise Adiele Tina Turner, the ageless American – Swiss-born singer electrified global music scene in 1984 with her hit song “What’s Love Got to Do with It”. The title of the song provides the creative impulse for the title of my essay this week. My analysis of the song and subsequent deployment as a […]

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Editorial: John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo (1935-2020)

Ihesiulo Grace 28 October 2020 0

On Tuesday, October 13, 20202, one of Nigeria’s literary giants, the iconic John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo (FNAL, NNOM) passed into the ancestral world which he had so poignantly captured in his creative works. In compliance with his wish ‘If Moslems can do it in a day/You certainly can do it in three/ as expressed in the […]

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OPINION: EndSARS: Twelve take-aways

Ihesiulo Grace 27 October 2020 0

By Ray Ekpu For thirteen days the youths of Nigeria took to the social media and the streets to ventilate their anger against a notoriously callous wing of the Nigeria Police called Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). They piled the complaints with eye witness accounts, victims’ accounts and accounts of their relations concerning extortion and violence […]

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OPINION: Do schools kill creativity?

Ihesiulo Grace 27 October 2020 0

By Rameez MAHESAR I must state from the outset that the title of my current article is derived from an opinion entitled “Creative thinking and our school system” by Leo Lgwe which was published some days ago in The Daily Times newspaper of Nigeria. The writer refers to the speech of Sir Ken Robinson – […]

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OPINION: END SARS protest (2): The real trouble ahead

Ihesiulo Grace 27 October 2020 0

By Isaac Chii Nwaogwugwu As I said last week, and I quote, “the build-up to #ENDSARS protest started long ago. We designed it by default. And as it were, what we are seeing now is just one tiny hole in a very big keg of gunpowder. We should be ready for the real trouble ahead. […]

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OPINION: EndSARS: The big picture

Ihesiulo Grace 20 October 2020 0

By Ray Ekpu Since 1992 when the Special AntiRobbery Squad (SARS) was established its modus operandi has been basically kill-and-go. This was during the military era where a military ruler arrogantly told Nigerians during a peaceful protest that they were trained experts in the domination of their environment. When a leader says that in the […]

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OPINION: #EndSARS protest and need for radical politics in Nigeria

Ihesiulo Grace 20 October 2020 0

By Salihu Moh. LUKEMAN Radical politics defined by commitment to principles of social change was a feature of opposition Nigerian politics. Associated mainly with Action Group (AG), Northern Element Progressive Union (NEPU), to some extent National Council of Nigeria and Cameroun (NCNC) and their alliance partners under United Progressive Grand Alliance (UPGA) in the First

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OPINION: #ENDSARS protest (1): The buildup

Ihesiulo Grace 20 October 2020 0

By Isaac Chii Nwaogwugwu The fragile state of the Nigerian social, political and economic stronghold is being challenged by a generation that has shocked everyone including themselves in confronting the very primary instrument of operation of the internal colonisers. Interestingly the signs of the impending crisis were conspicuous even to the blind. The political ‘dealers’

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EDITORIAL: Yet another unending ASUU strike

Ihesiulo Grace 20 October 2020 0

With the lifting of the COVID-19 pandemic-induced lockdown, the trouble with the Nigerian university system is now in full public glare. The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) commenced its latest industrial strike on 16th of March, 2020, about two weeks ahead of the lockdown. With the lockdown affecting virtually all of society, it was […]

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OPINION: Professor J.P. Clark: Tribute to departed poet

Ihesiulo Grace 19 October 2020 0

By Hope O’Rukevbe Eghagha Eminent and foremost Nigerian poet, Professor John Pepper Clark recently danced into the night of his life at the ripe age of 85 years. His was a rich and fulfilled life, having impacted generations of writers on the African continent. In obedience to his final wish, he was laid to rest […]

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OPINION: The nexus between research and teaching

Ihesiulo Grace 19 October 2020 0

By Rameez MAHESAR Some days ago, I discovered by chance an Urdu article of Waseem Khattak entitled “Asaatza kay tahqeeqi maqalay taleem ko tabah kar rahy hen”, which in English means “research papers of the teachers are destroying education”. Before going deep into what he has focused on in his article, it is indispensable to […]

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OPINION: What JP Clark means to me

Ihesiulo Grace 19 October 2020 0

By Tanure OJAIDE How does one respond to the loss of an icon such as JP and more so one as close? After I received the dawn call from Nigeria, I wrote Dawn has brought chilling news— what the tide did at night has come to light. The tide takes away what it has brought […]

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EDITORIAL: The Ondo governorship poll

Ihesiulo Grace 19 October 2020 0

The Ondo State governorship election held October 10 has come and gone. A clear winner by a wide margin, Rotimi Akeredolu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has been declared. The lessons that arise from the conduct of the poll will, however, remain with us for a long time to come. This was an election […]

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OPINION: ASUU and our president’s ‘democratic’ destiny

Ihesiulo Grace 16 October 2020 0

By Tony Afejuku Let me begin with an apology: last Friday I told dear, dear ASUU people and comrades and all readers of this column to read Second Kings Chapter Six for the story of Jehu. It was an error from a failed enthusiastic pen. The chapter I actually meant was/is Chapter Nine. Of course […]

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OPINION: On Donald Trump’s certain win in US

Ihesiulo Grace 16 October 2020 0

By Dan Mou I was pleasantly amused when my former Personal Assistant, Major Kator, sent me Dr. Femi Aribisala’s article on President Donald J. Trump. It is clearly a hatchet job! While it appears to be an objective scholarly article, it is so one-sided and so deliberately fraudulently biased against Trump. Consequently, the article is […]

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OPINION: SARS, youth and power of initiative

Ihesiulo Grace 16 October 2020 0

By Akindotun MERINO “Initiative is doing the right thing without being told” Nigerian youth have taken to the streets of Lagos and other states, which cumulated in the dissolving of the police malware SARS. For the sake of clarity, SARS is the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), a branch of the Nigeria Police Force under the […]

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EDITORIAL: Emir Shehu Idris of Zazzau: 1936-2020

Ihesiulo Grace 16 October 2020 0

One of the icons of the traditional royal institutions in northern Nigeria, Alhaji Shehu Idris 18th Emir of Zazzau recently answered the final call of nature when he passed on on September 20 2020 at the age of eighty-four years. His was a long reign, having ascended the throne of his forbears on 8th February […]