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Opinion: Boko Haram: We are all casualties

Ihesiulo Grace 2 December 2020 0

By Promise Adiele Nigeria’s eclectic poet, John Pepper Clark, who recently journeyed to sleep with his ancestors, can be described as a prophet in certain terms. When I use the word “prophet”, I do not mean those who daily drink from a common trough of deception and hallucinate with satanic

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Opinion: Critical lessons from the Biden triumph

Ihesiulo Grace 1 December 2020 0

By Ebere Onwudiwe Opinion, U.S. President Trump has tried all he could to continue in power; hasn’t he? But none of the levers he’s pulled in the American system, from the bizarre to the wacky and the comic, has worked so far. There is a lesson in this for Nigeria and other emerging democracies. The […]

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Opinion: 2023: In pursuit of electoral reforms that serve the common good

Ihesiulo Grace 1 December 2020 0

By Samson Itodo Opinion, Nigeria’s 21 years of democracy was tested with the conduct of last year’s 2019 general elections. The elections presented an opportunity for Nigeria to consolidate on the gains of the 2015 elections and deepen her democratic transition, but the polls substantially failed to do so. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) […]

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Opinion: Nigerian Democratisation and internal party contest for leadership

Ihesiulo Grace 30 November 2020 0

By Salihu Moh.Lukeman It was the American journalist and political commentator, Fareed Zakaria, in the book The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad who argued that democratisation everywhere is shifting power downward. According to him, the process of democratisation goes far beyond politics and result in hierarchies “breaking down, closed systems are

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Opinion: NBET Politics: Flagrant violation of EPSR ACT 2005

Ihesiulo Grace 30 November 2020 0

By Akinloye Oyeniyi It is no more news to all concerned stakeholders in critical sectors of Nigrian economy, that an unwarranted and unprovoked illegality of transferring Nigeria Bulk Electricity Trading PLC (NBET) from the Ministry of Power to Ministry of Finance, Budget and Planning, without amendment to the Act from which its establishment was rooted. […]

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Opinion: The benefits of the Newspaper

Ihesiulo Grace 27 November 2020 0

By Daniel Ighakpe “Foolish is the man who never reads a newspaper; even more foolish is the man who believes what he reads just because it is in the newspaper.” – August von Schlözer, German historian and journalist of the late 18th century. The newspaper is an important document which can be referred to as […]

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Opinion: Managing public communication in a polarised democracy

Ihesiulo Grace 27 November 2020 0

By Emeka Oparah Opinion, In the aftermath of the recent #EndSARS protests and the resultant riots, there have been interesting conversations around the way the government and the police managed the communication element from their end. This is not necessarily a post mortem or an appraisal of how those in-charge of communication discharged their duties […]

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OPINION: IPPIS: Understanding the position of ASUU and AGF Ahmed Idris

Ihesiulo Grace 26 November 2020 0

By Yushau A. Shualb The battle of wits between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) over the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) may soon come to an end, with the recent compromise that seems to be close at hand. Even though the Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed […]

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OPINION: For broadcasting, truth troubled by the times

Ihesiulo Grace 26 November 2020 0

By Okoh Aihe Opinion, the snake is not a likeable creep. Especially if you have had a brush with its venomous danger as I have, twice in my life and nearly got finished off at the second encounter, you have no reason to like the snake at all, and once you smell the danger from […]

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Opinion: Striking at the future of the Nigerian youth

Ihesiulo Grace 25 November 2020 0

By Dakuku Peterside A Google search of ASUU, the acronym of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, comes with the suggestions’ ASUU strike’, ‘ASUU strike update’ and ‘ASUU strike update today.’ The above are not surprising because most Nigerians have come to associate ASUU with ‘strikes’. ASUU is a union of teachers in the universities […]

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Opinion: Nigeria: The challenges of survival

Ihesiulo Grace 25 November 2020 0

By Promise Adiele I am not an economist, but I am not ignorant of the economic tensions around the world, especially in Nigeria. I remember my Economics teacher in secondary school. We nicknamed him Adam Smith. Tall, suave, and debonair, our local Adam Smith made us believe he knew everything about micro and macroeconomic issues. […]

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Opinion: Kindred Spirits: Rawlings, Balarabe and Erekat

Ihesiulo Grace 24 November 2020 0

By Owei Lakemfa Rawlings, when the old or those who play the role of elders die in Africa, we do not weep. Rather, we celebrate them because they merely transit from the physical realm to the pantheon of ancestors, who watch over the living. Three elders who led the struggle for a better humanity transited […]

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Opinion: A nation in denial

Ihesiulo Grace 24 November 2020 0

By Olanrewaju Osho Opinion, The Ostrich appears to have been inadvertently overlooked or cheated of its deserved place as one of the emblems of Nigeria’s official symbol. This is because there is a striking similarity between the Ostrich and the Nigerian rulership clan – the habit of living in denial. The practice of denial has […]

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Opinion: Democracy, leadership, and the future of Nigeria

Ihesiulo Grace 20 November 2020 0

By Sam Amadi Opinion, Nigeria is falling apart. It is falling apart fast. Nigeria needs to be rescued. It needs to be rescued quickly. Nigeria’s basic indicators are bad. Youth unemployment is about 23% and growing. Half of Nigerians are extremely poor, according to Nigeria’s official custodian of social data, the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics […]

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OPINION: World Toilet Day: Nigeria, Sustainable Toilets and Climate Change

Ihesiulo Grace 19 November 2020 0

By Olamide Francis In a place with a mushrooming population like Nigeria, poor sanitation will invariably be at the heart of the environmental challenges confronting it. You don’t even need a University degree in environmental management to know that rapid urbanisation puts pressure on already strained land and water resources – the case of Nigeria. […]

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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 education”. On the flip side, some […]

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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 […]