Opinion

Failure: What options for Nigeria?

Ihesiulo Grace 3 March 2021 0

Promise Adiele Nigeria is presently hovering on a precipice. By the foregoing, no pessimism is intended. It is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth – so help us, God. Danger ominously lurks around our psychological and physical environment. It is palpable and threatening. The

Opinion

Stumbling blocks on a thorny part

Ihesiulo Grace 2 March 2021 0

By Dame Julie Okah Donli Have you ever experienced stumbling blocks while walking on a thorny part? If you have, then you will understand what “double wahala” in local Nigerian parlance means. I have spent quite a great deal of time taking us on an expository voyage along the road of the dimensions of human […]

Columnist Opinion

Media reporting of Educational excellence and matters arising

Ihesiulo Grace 1 March 2021 0

Prof. Tunji Olaopa It is now axiomatic that Nigeria embodies fundamental contradictions that define the extent of her predicament. This predicament is a multidimensional one that revolves around the inability of Nigeria to make developmental headway of her existence since 1960. For sixty-one years of statehood, Nigeria is still to make headway with her development […]

Opinion

‘I bought a third Jet during COVID-19’

Ihesiulo Grace 1 March 2021 0

Hope O’Rukevbe Eghagha It was with great happiness, infinite joy, and a Christian spirit of generous charity that I watched a video of a jet-set Nigerian born-again, very holy and rambunctious businessman, even controversial Pentecostal pastor recently who boasted in the Lord in a garishly vainglorious manner that he bought his third jet during the […]

Opinion

The actionability of sustainable development and social change: A rural community perspective

Ihesiulo Grace 1 March 2021 0

Evans Jakpa-Johns After six hours journey across the rough, stony ground from Accra to the Ashanti Region in Ghana, I sat quietly under the sunshade in a social distance setting in adherence to the tenet of the Covid-19 protocols. On this bright sunny day, I looked vacantly at local dancers, wearing fanciful apparel, handmade jewellery […]

Opinion

Sheik Gummi: The Elephant in the room

Ihesiulo Grace 26 February 2021 0

By Abdullahi Yelwa The efforts of the Kaduna Islamic cleric, Sheik Gummi have continued to elicit reactions from all across the country. As usual, opinions are divided. On one side are those who believe that the cleric is God-sent in opening channels of communication with the bandits that would eventually lead to peace. Other Nigerians […]

Opinion

Buhari is not the only problem, we all are!

Ihesiulo Grace 23 February 2021 0

Dele Olawanle Having spent the last 31 years in the United Kingdom (UK) and having been visiting Nigeria, at least, twice a year for the last 21 years, I decided to host a leadership programme recently in Lagos. I was to do it last year, but it was postponed due to Covid-19. It was looking […]

Opinion

The need for National Resilience Policy and Standard

Ihesiulo Grace 22 February 2021 0

Tunji Olaopa We live in a VUCA world—vulnerable, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. And it takes little reflection for anyone to see how this is immediately so. While the idea of a VUCA world was introduced into the lexicon by reflection on strategy and leadership, the COVID-19 pandemic has added an aggravated dimension to how vulnerable, […]

Opinion

Covid-19 pandemic and human trafficking: A double barrel gun

Ihesiulo Grace 16 February 2021 0

By Dame Julie Okah Donli Previously, I wrote about sports trafficking and all its cons. Today, we deal with something that almost succeeded in wrecking the world and bringing it to a halt. Your guess is as good as mine, COVID-19! The Covid-19 pandemic came with its attendant challenges cutting across all sectors of human […]

Opinion

Resolving malnutrition challenge amid Covid-19

Ihesiulo Grace 16 February 2021 0

Reginald Onabu The year 2020 was an unusual one in every sense of the word. The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic made sure of this. To remove any doubt about the threat that the virus posed to every country in the world, the World Health Organisations (WHO) recognised the COVID-19 as a global pandemic. Today, the impact […]

Opinion

Global action is the only way to get ahead of COVID-19

Ihesiulo Grace 12 February 2021 0

Mark Suzman This week, we learned that the COVID-19 vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca appears to provide no measurable effect on mild or moderate disease caused by the variant of the virus first identified in South Africa, known as B.1.351. This is deeply disappointing news. People the world over are understandably […]

Opinion

The policy implications of 2021’s low growth projections

Ihesiulo Grace 12 February 2021 0

Uddin Ifeanyi It is no longer news that both the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank have reduced their expectations for economic growth in Nigeria this year. While the IMF pared 0.2 percentage points off its October 2020 World Economic Outlook projections, the World Bank shaved 0.6 percentage points off its June 2020 […]

Opinion

2023: That Uche Secondus commentary on Goodluck Jonathan

Ihesiulo Grace 12 February 2021 0

Bonaventure Melah I read with disbelief and shock, an article obviously written by the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus which carried the byline of his media adviser, Ike Abonyi and published recently. I waited for these few days before responding to the publication to see whether Secondus would reprimand […]

Opinion

Uprooting the stronghold of sports trafficking in Nigeria

Ihesiulo Grace 10 February 2021 0

By Dame Julie Okah Donli In the previous editions of my diary, I wrote about the general overview of human trafficking and its attendant societal ills. Let me once again reiterate that human trafficking is a return of the indignity of human slavery. In fact, it is a form of modernized slavery that has undergone […]

Opinion

Ijaw youths Vs NDDC

Ihesiulo Grace 2 February 2021 0

Ray Ekpu A couple of weeks ago, a faction of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) based in Abuja invaded the office of the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Chief Godswill Akpabio and disrupted the normal flow of work there. They were saying with placards that they do not want a Sole Administrator for the NDDC. […]

Opinion

The COVID-19 vaccine

Ihesiulo Grace 26 January 2021 0

Phillip Ugenyi The current hysteria regarding the COVID-19 vaccine is as unfortunate as it is understandable. As mentioned previously, vaccination has been with us for more than a 100 years, and has been vital to our triumph over viral diseases. Ever evolving strategies in vaccination and their successful uptake by eligible populations, is therefore a […]

Opinion

COVID-19 and the consolation of Philosophy

Ihesiulo Grace 26 January 2021 0

By Prof. Tunji Olaopa These are indeed terrible times, the like of which most of us have never known. We are well into the trauma of the second wave of the pandemic, with the onslaught of a new variant of COVID-19 ravaging our lives and emotions. Many people have died already. And many more lives […]

Opinion

Governor Akeredolu’s order & allied matters

Ihesiulo Grace 24 January 2021 0

Hope O’Rukevbe Eghagha About a week ago, in exercise of his rights as Chief Law and Security Officer of Ondo State, Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu ordered herdsmen to vacate all ‘government reserves in the state within seven days’. Stating that the order was a reaction to the upsurge of criminal activities linked to some Fulani herdsmen […]

Opinion

The Church in Year 2020

Ihesiulo Grace 21 January 2021 0

Anthony Bobori Not even the various World wars have affected every country of the world simultaneous and tragically as the coronavirus pandemic of 2020. It claimed human lives indiscriminately and ruined economies of countries alike. The pandemic inadvertently brought countries via collaborative scientific and humanitarian efforts together that political differences were

Opinion

Kukah: Patriotic homiletics and patriotic journalism

Ihesiulo Grace 21 January 2021 0

By Prof. Tony Afejuku On the eve of Christmas that has just come and gone, Matthew Hassan Kukah, Ph.D., the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, who is quite popular and more than well known to those who are glad to know men like him, at least, by reputation, held many of us under his sway. The […]