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Opinion: Ali Garh: The Nursery for Journalists

Ihesiulo Grace 18 November 2020 0

Mehdi Hassan had ennobled Sir Syed as a mammoth stone in the stagnant water of India. Jawaharlal Nehru had once opined that Sir Syed’s decision to turn all his concentration on Muslim education was correct with education. The Times of London had also christened him as “the prophet of

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Opinion: Shameful death: The end of all dictators

Ihesiulo Grace 18 November 2020 0

By Promise Adiele Opinion, I have taken the title of this week’s essay from a response by one of my final year students during the ongoing COVID-19 induced online lectures. I had asked the students to give me an honest but critical opinion about Okonkwo, the lead character in Chinua Achebe’s globally acclaimed novel Things […]

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Opinion: The Africanisation of America

Ihesiulo Grace 17 November 2020 0

By Chris Adetayo (Opinion) The 2020 US Elections have now come and gone. The winners and losers are now known, at least for the large part. Yet the ramifications of it will linger for long and its impact will be felt across the world for years to come. For Africa, the elections (from campaigning to […]

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Opinion: Richard Sklar on Nigeria’s National Question

Ihesiulo Grace 17 November 2020 0

By Ebere Onwudiwe My good friend and co-author, Richard Sklar, professor emeritus of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a past president of the African Studies Association (USA), is among the most accomplished students of Nigerian politics since the second half of the 20th century. His thinking on the nationality question […]

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Opinion: How 13 percent derivation, NDDC benefits are hijacked from oil communities

Ihesiulo Grace 13 November 2020 0

By Michael Owhoko Contrary to widely held view that core oil producing areas in the Niger Delta are benefiting from 13 percent derivation and the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) projects, there is no impact of these interventions in the areas. Instead, state governors, government officials and politicians at both federal and state levels take […]

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Opinion: Thoughts on the American

Ihesiulo Grace 13 November 2020 0

By Fred Ohwahwa What is the reason for our keen interest in the 2020 American elections? This is not too difficult to comprehend. It is because of the United States’ disproportionate influence in the world. For more than 70 years, America’s domineering influence in the world has been unmistakable. Though this is dwindling, the United […]

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Opinion: From #EndSARS to structural political and economic change

Ihesiulo Grace 12 November 2020 0

By Kingsley Moghalu (Opinion) “The youth of a nation are the trustees of posterity.” – Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874- 1880. “Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.” – Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States The recent peaceful protests by thousands of young Nigerians demanding […]

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Opinion: The protest we must all support

Ihesiulo Grace 12 November 2020 0

By Olanrewaju Osho Nigeria has experienced several dozens of protests since the Aba Women Riot of 1922. The first in her 60 years of independence was the ‘wetie’ violent protests that gave birth to the ‘wild wild west’ euphemism in the Western region. The longest of Nigeria’s cocktails of protests was the one that broke […]

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Opinion: A new dawn in America

Ihesiulo Grace 11 November 2020 0

By Dakuku Peterside Joe Biden is officially the Presidentelect of the United States of America. Several world leaders have congratulated him including our own former President Olusegun Obasanjo and current President Muhammadu Buhari. In an election that divided the country into two opposing camps, with accusations and counter-accusations and the highest number of voting in

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Opinion: Dictatorship: Victimizing #ENDSARS promoters

Ihesiulo Grace 11 November 2020 0

By Promise Adiele (Opinion) Like an onion, the overlapping layers of US politics in the last two weeks have continued to unfold with intriguing concerns. Globally acclaimed as the natural habitat of democracy, the US has been the compelling cynosure of all eyes in the last few weeks. The events in God’s own country following […]

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Opinion: Sexual harassment in Pakistan: Challenges and prospects

Ihesiulo Grace 10 November 2020 0

By Rameez Mahesar To be fair, sexual harassment is an intractable problem all across the world; but some societies are documenting the fewer cases in that they have taken sturdier steps to deal with the jeopardy. This malpractice starts sparkling when a man holds a superior position of power and starts bullying, exploiting, pressuring, and […]

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Opinion: WTO Leadership Tussle: The Rules versus the Deals

Ihesiulo Grace 10 November 2020 0

The American obstacle to the emergence of Nigeria and Africa’s candidate, (WTO) Okonjo-Iweala is a reflection of what has come to be the stumbling block of growth in global trade and its inevitable negative impact on the welfare of nations as predicated on the gains from subdued high tariff regimes. The World Trade Organisation has […]

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Opinion: Creating a viable gold economy

Ihesiulo Grace 9 November 2020 0

By Ehi Braimah (Opinion) On July 16 this year, President Muhammadu Buhari launched the Presidential Artisanal Gold Mining Development Initiative (PAGMI). On that occasion, the president received the first batch of artisanally-mined gold bar weighing 12.5 kg, and announced that we lost close to $3 billion to gold smuggling between 2012 and 2018 which works […]

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Opinion: Study notes on Nigeria’s youth revolt

Ihesiulo Grace 9 November 2020 0

By Edwin Madunagu What actually happened in Nigeria, from October 8, 2020 to the last week of that month? Did we see a protest, a revolt, an uprising, a rebellion, a nihilist – anarchist selfexpression, an insurrection or a revolution? But why have I decided to put “revolution” last? Is it because it is the […]

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Opinion: The emergency meeting northern governors should hold

Ihesiulo Grace 6 November 2020 0

By Olabisi Deji-Folutile Left to our 19 Northern States’ governors and Nigeria’s Education Minister, Adamu Adamu, the over 1.5 million candidates that sat this year’s West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) would have probably waited for another year before taking the exam. We owe the West African Examination Council (WAEC) thanks for sticking to

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Opinion: Gospel according to Alli-Macaulay

Ihesiulo Grace 6 November 2020 0

By Niran Adedokun It would be unfair to pretend not to understand where Mojisola Alli-Macaulay was coming from in her intervention that went viral last week. It is unlikely that anyone with a remote sense of decency would approve the level of destruction that visited Lagos and other parts of Nigeria in the wake of […]

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Opinion: Nigerian youth and the psychology of the dispossessed

Ihesiulo Grace 6 November 2020 0

By Fred Ohwahwa Many Nigerians surely had a taste of the recent protest by the youths in the country for a better Nigeria. Otherwise known as #ENDSARS, the protest which was initially meant to draw attention to the excesses of an arm of the Police, soon took on a life of its own. And with […]

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Opinion: Between the “Discovery” of palliatives and criminality

Ihesiulo Grace 6 November 2020 0

By Oluwadele Bolutife I could barely wrap my head around the ‘discovery’ of the first warehouse in Lagos, where food items supposedly donated by the private sector were hoarded in. And before one could bleep an eyelid, more discoveries were made in other places. As if that was not enough, I heard the most unintelligent […]

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Opinion: Happiness in our Country

Ihesiulo Grace 4 November 2020 0

By Rameez Mahesar The question of the happiness of a country can be answered by examining how happy her youth is. Because happiness is the biggest dream that everybody wishes for it to achieve. If it begins working like a scintillation in the lives of youth, they start contributing unswervingly towards the development of their […]

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Opinion: Looters, kindly return all the loot

Ihesiulo Grace 4 November 2020 0

By Promise Adiele Please, if you know you were involved in the looting of public and private properties on the heels of the #ENDSARS protests across the country, either by direct participation or by subtle conspiracy, kindly return the loot to the owners. Also, if in your capacity as a government or public official, at […]