Opinion

Push for Next Inspector General of Police Continue Amidst Unhealthy Propaganda

Ihesiulo Grace 31 March 2021 0

With the 3 Months extension of the tenure of the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Mohammed Abubakar Adamu, indications have emerged of top Police Officers jostling to replace him at the expiration of the 3 Months extension. The Inspector General Police was due to retire on 2nd February, 2021

Opinion

Nigeria: From romance to realism

Ihesiulo Grace 31 March 2021 0

Promise Adiele It was a Monday. As I walked into the class that morning, my steps carried between them renewed optimism to teach, a vocation that revitalizes and continually lubricates my creative impetus. Remove teaching and research from my daily menu, I lose the inspiration to be professionally accomplished. Entering the air-conditioned, large class, I […]

Opinion

The return of Slave Trade in the 21st century

Ihesiulo Grace 31 March 2021 0

By Julie Okah Donli Many people cast suspicious stares at me when I tell them that we are still in the era of slave trade. Before you begin to tow that line of thought and jump to consult your history books that talks about how slave trade has been abolished in different countries of world, […]

Opinion

NIPSS as Nigeria’s hub for Strategic Policy Intelligence

Ihesiulo Grace 30 March 2021 0

By Tunji Olaopa My mission in this piece is to relive the vision of the founding fathers in establishing the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies – NIPSS, and this I put in perspective in my new book titled NIPSS: Conception, Operations and Framework for Repositioning. Indeed, the Nigerian Constitution, in all its iterations […]

Opinion

House of Windsor, Racism, and the Commonwealth

Ihesiulo Grace 29 March 2021 0

Hope O’Rukevbe Eghagha It was Duchess Meghan Markle, the ‘alter-ego’ of now-deceased Lady Diana, the peoples’ princess who seemed to have succeeded in blowing open the cover of the House of Windsor on racism and racist thinking, in an explosive interview, poignantly hosted by mega-presenter Oprah Winfrey in faraway America, safe from the racist harassment […]

Opinion

How politicians destroy Nigerian Diplomatic Service

Ihesiulo Grace 24 March 2021 0

By Saleh M. Abdulwahab In many mega cities around the world, the slogan is ‘Si ves algo, di algo’, if you see something, say something to protect the cities. In our own beloved mega country where many things are going wrong, it is necessary and timely to say something in the national interest. In a […]

Opinion

Baby factory saga, another dangerous enterprise

Ihesiulo Grace 23 March 2021 0

By Julie Okah Donli  I was on a flight when I overheard two women having a conversation. As usual, I would have ignored and concentrated on the book I was reading but then, how could I concentrate when the topic of the discussion revolves around an area of interest and one that I had spent […]

Opinion

Anambra, pride of Igboland and trailblazer in development

Ihesiulo Grace 22 March 2021 0

George Obiozor No Igbo man grown up, intelligent and observant would fail to notice the continuous development in many ramifications in Anambra State in the last twenty years. These fantastic developments have been impressive, persistent, consistent and highly commendable. Internal road network connections within Anambra State are unprecedented, modern and magnificent

Opinion

Where is Chinweizu? Revisiting Nigeria’s Discursive Space

Ihesiulo Grace 22 March 2021 0

Tunji Olaopa Almost everyone who has the sensibility for debates and discourses, and who is also old enough, will be familiar with the name of Chinweizu. He was the eponymous literary figure that was at the center of the literary debate around the nature and content of African literature in the 1970s. The debate did […]

News Opinion

Living in brutish and nasty era

Ihesiulo Grace 18 March 2021 0

By Fassy Yusuf NO doubt we are living in an era that has made life to be brutish and nasty for the average Nigerian. It was Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), an English philosopher who in 1651 in his famous book ‘Leviathan’ expounded an influential formulation of social contract theory. The main political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes […]

Opinion

Social Media and Human Trafficking: The Big Story

Ihesiulo Grace 16 March 2021 0

Julie Okah Donli The business of human trafficking generates an estimated USSB15B profit globally, hence it is one of the most lucrative businesses in the world. The use of social media has greatly increased in the 21st century. Aided by technological innovations, social media is not just a means of socializing and chatting, it is […]

Opinion

Is there future for Classical Studies as a Discipline in Nigeria?

Ihesiulo Grace 15 March 2021 0

Tunji Olaopa Just some few weeks ago, the management of the University of Ibadan announced the sad news of the death of Mr. Nigel Derek Henry, the longest serving member of the Classics Department, and indeed of the entire Faculty of the Humanities. Mr. Henry spent over four decades, tutoring students in the fine art […]

Opinion

Oil sector: Why Labour should embrace deregulation policy

Ihesiulo Grace 9 March 2021 0

Baba Alkasim Baba Nigerians across Abuja, Suleja, Kano Lagos, Enugu and Port Harcourt recently experienced heart-rending petrol scarcity arising from public fears of a speculated increase in the pump price of petroleum, an ugly spectacle which many thought was since history. Not even the often repeated assurances by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) that

Opinion

Ortom the Tough

Ihesiulo Grace 4 March 2021 0

By Tony Afejuku The Tiv and Idoma people of Benue State in our country’s Middle Belt’s geographical region are my people. I call them my people primarily because I have quite a number (of some) of my firm friends among members of the two respective ethnic groups, right from the days and years when they […]

Opinion

CBN’s policies in facilitating recovery from economic recession amid COVID-19

Ihesiulo Grace 4 March 2021 0

By Harriet Adzuu Nigeria’s economy slipped into a recession after its gross domestic product contracted for the second consecutive quarter. Africa’s biggest economy went into recession for the first time since 2016. The recession four years ago was its first in a generation, and the country emerged from it the following year. However, economic growth […]

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 Nigerian firmament hangs like tragic morass waiting […]

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 […]