Editorial

Sheikh Jingir, Pastor Uden and Covid-19 Pandemic

Ihesiulo Grace 3 April 2020 0

On Friday, March 27, the Chairman of the Ulama’u Council of Izalatil Bid’a Wa’ikamatis Sunnah, Sheikh Sani Yahaya Jingir, led the weekly Muslim congregational Jumu’ah prayer at the sect’s mosques in Jos in contravention of the directives given by the Plateau State Government against all forms

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COVID-19 lockdown: No to torture of citizens by security agents

Ihesiulo Grace 2 April 2020 0

Troubling videos showing policemen, military officers and other agents of the state torturing, flogging, harassing and humiliating citizens for straying outside despite the current lockdown in Lagos, Ogun and Abuja and general movement restrictions across the country have surfaced online. READ ALSO: Benue journalists threaten to boycott coronavirus coverage Section 34 of

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COVID-19: Time for homegrown approach

Ihesiulo Grace 2 April 2020 0

The number of confirmed infections of the COVID-19 virus as announced by the Federal Ministry of Health and National Centre for Decease Control (NCDC) keeps increasing exponentially. But we have also been fortunate that some of them are recovering and the death toll remains low with 2 reported as these lines are written. READ ALSO: […]

Editorial Opinion

On Nigeria’s rising judgment debt profile

Ihesiulo Grace 2 April 2020 0

The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), while defending the Ministry of Justice’s 2020 budgetary allocation before the Senate committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters late last year revealed the ministry is battling with unpaid staggering sum of N150 billion as judgment debts. According to him, […]

Editorial Featured

Is Obla SAN an EFCC prosecutor being hunted?

Ihesiulo Grace 1 April 2020 0

Journalists ask a lot of questions on their beats and a times they do not get correct answers to their questions. So it was last week’s Friday when a colleague raised this question.  Is Godwin Obla (SAN) one of the foremost EFCC prosecutor being hunted? READ ALSO: COVID19: LASUCOM embarks on production of sanitizers, spray […]

Editorial Opinion

The Nigeria Police Force should be modernised

Ihesiulo Grace 1 April 2020 0

Loius Edet House is the headquarters of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF). It is beautiful, wears a good coat of paint, elegant and has all touches of modernity, including IT infrastructure. Foreign or local visitors are awed by the seemingly smooth nature of things in the building. The officers are well kitted, well dressed and […]

Editorial Opinion

Oil theft: The revelation by NNPC

Ihesiulo Grace 1 April 2020 0

The revelation by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) that the Federal Government presently does not know the exact figure of crude stolen by oil thieves is not only disheartening but calls for urgent actions to stop criminally minded persons in the oil sector from causing more damage to the nation’s economy. READ ALSO: Uzodinma […]

Editorial Opinion

COVID-19, an opportunity to revamp Nigeria’s Health institutions

Ihesiulo Grace 30 March 2020 0

Since the entry and eventual spread of Coronavirus, otherwise called COVID-19, in Nigeria, the Federal and state governments have risen to the challenge, putting in place various measures to checkmate the pandemic. These measures, harsh as some are, have been embraced by a greater percentage of Nigerians in places like Lagos, Ogun, FCT and others […]

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Ending maternal deaths in Nigeria

Ihesiulo Grace 27 March 2020 0

Despite efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), maternal mortality rates worldwide especially in Nigeria has remained unacceptably high, heightening the need for more efforts by all and sundry to reduce the number of women dying during child birth and possibly eliminating it. We acknowledge that Nigeria had taken great strides over the years […]

Editorial Featured

Unfair restriction of media coverage at Presidential Villa

Ihesiulo Grace 26 March 2020 0

The Senior Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, yesterday announced the restriction of over 80 media organisations from direct coverage of the Presidential Villa in Abuja. He disclosed this in a circular, titled “COVID-19: Downward review of Correspondents presence in the Presidential Villa”, which was signed on his behalf […]

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COVID-19, an opportunity to revamp Nigeria’s Health institutions

Ihesiulo Grace 26 March 2020 0

Since the entry and eventual spread of Coronavirus, otherwise called COVID-19, into Nigeria, the Federal and state governments have risen to the challenge, putting in place various measures to checkmate the pandemic. These measures, restrictive as some are, have been embraced by a greater percentage of Nigerians in places like Lagos, Ogun, FCT and others […]

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TETFund: Beyond suspension of confab sponsorship for lecturers

Ihesiulo Grace 25 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

Editorial Opinion

Oil theft: The revelation by NNPC

Ihesiulo Grace 23 March 2020 0

The revelation by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) that the Federal Government presently does not know the exact figure of crude stolen by oil thieves is not only disheartening but calls for urgent actions to stop criminally minded persons in the oil sector from causing more damage to the nation’s economy. Recall that Chief […]

Editorial News

No to Elisha Abbo’s appointment as patron of AGN

Ihesiulo Grace 18 March 2020 0

The appointment of  Senator Elisha Abbo the senator representing the Adamawa North Senatorial District in Adamawa State at the Nigerian 9th National Assembly as the patron of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) has received criticism from many Nigerians The questions begging for answers will be why will an industry of great magnitude and reputation […]

Editorial Opinion

States and un-accessed UBEC matching grants

Ihesiulo Grace 17 March 2020 0

Not a few Nigerians were shocked to hear recently 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 sector […]

Editorial Opinion

Out-of-school children: Time to act is now

Ihesiulo Grace 16 March 2020 0

Though the alarm raised by President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, on the danger posed to the well-being of Nigeria by the increasing number of out-of-school children may not be new, his concern and that of other senators show that it is time for all hands to be on deck to eliminate the syndrome once […]

Editorial Opinion

Taming the cancer scourge in Nigeria

Ihesiulo Grace 13 March 2020 0

Feeding on widespread ignorance about the disease, cancer of all forms has continued to wreak havoc on humanity, prematurely cutting down destinies and dreams. It has remained the world’s number one killer disease. The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently revealed that new cancer cases and deaths in Africa are projected to double by 2040. Statistics […]

Editorial

Oil theft: The revelation by NNPC

Ihesiulo Grace 12 March 2020 0

The revelation by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) that the Federal Government presently does not know the exact figure of crude stolen by oil thieves is not only disheartening but calls for urgent actions to stop criminally minded persons in the oil sector from causing more damage to the nation’s economy. Recall that Chief […]

Editorial News

El-Rufai appoints deposed Kano emir into KADIPA board

Ihesiulo Grace 11 March 2020 0

Governor Nasiru El-Rufai has appointed the deposed Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi into the board of the Kaduna State Investment Promotion Agency (KADIPA). The appointment was announced a day after Sanusi was removed by the Kano State Government as Emir of Kano. A statement issued on Tuesday in Kaduna by Muyiwa Adekeye, Special Adviser on […]

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Anambra as pride of Nigeria Police

Ihesiulo Grace 11 March 2020 0

On Saturday, February 15, I set out from my house in Ajah in Eti-osa Local Government Area for my son’s school in Epe, also in Lagos State, to bring him home for the mid-term break. While approaching Ibeju Local Government Area, a police team on stop-and-search duty flagged down my vehicle and asked me to […]