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53 years after civil war, new Nigeria realisable- Obi

Ihesiulo Grace 16 January 2023 0

..Says Nation bound in freedom, peace, unity, justice, prosperity By Tom Okpe As the nation remembers its fallen heros on Sunday, 15th January, as a result of the first coup that resulted to civil war, and other national calamities, presidential candidate of the Labour Party, (LP) Peter Obi has

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Stop another civil war in Nigeria, NADECO writes UN

Ihesiulo Grace 22 June 2021 0

National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) has called on the United Nations, United States of America, United Kingdom and European Union among other world powers to stop Nigeria from “the dangerous paths it is treading” and prevent another civil war in the country. NADECO in a letter signed by its general secretary, Ayo Opadokun, on behalf of […]

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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 […]

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OPINION: My parents’ fiftieth marriage anniversary!

Ihesiulo Grace 13 August 2020 0

By Sunny Awhefeada Last July, precisely 22nd, made it fifty long years, half a century, since my parents got married! They got married on the 22nd of July 1970. As I thought about their glorious and memorable matrimony, a lot came to my mind. Fifty years is a long time, a very long time. And […]

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OPINION: Nigeria: A personal encounter (1)

Ihesiulo Grace 10 August 2020 0

By Hope O’Rukevbe Eghagha I encountered Nigeria very early. Age 4 or 5, I think. I remember they said Nigeria had become a Republic. We marched. Danced. Ate rice. Drank Fanta. Not that I knew what a republic meant. It did not matter. We celebrated with teachers. And adults. We danced lustily to songs which […]

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Women secret agents in hoop skirts, spies of the civil War

Ihesiulo Grace 24 May 2020 0

Rose Greenhow Known from a young age as “Wild Rose,” Rose O’Neal Greenhow ascended the ranks of Washington, D.C., society as the wife of a wealthy and prominent doctor. Her charmed life took a tragic turn in the 1850s, when her husband and five of their eight children died. In the months before the Civil […]

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Gowon, Soyinka, Utomi, others caution against actions that could lead to another civil war

Ihesiulo Grace 14 January 2020 0

Some eminent Nigerians including former Head of State, Gen Yakubu Gowon (rtd), Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, and Political economist, Prof. Pat Utomi, among others, on Monday, cautioned the nation, especially its political class against following the path that could possibly lead the nation to another civil war. Speaking at a conference to mark 50 […]

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Nigeria can work, but only if…

Ihesiulo Grace 22 May 2018 0

To say Nigeria as a nation totters on the brink, is to be economical with the truth. Never in the history of Nigeria as the nation faced such deep-rooted schisms as it currently faces. Not even in the tumultuous years of the 1960s prior to the first military coup, and the tribal/ethnic motivated counter coup […]

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Civil war land mines: Court orders FG to pay N88bn compensation to communities

Ihesiulo Grace 31 October 2017 0

*FG to rebuild schools, classrooms in affected communities, 47 years after Andrew Orolua, Abuja The Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) Court on Monday ordered the Federal Government to pay some communities in 10 states where land mines were laid during the Nigeria-Biafra civil war the sum of N50 billion as compensation. The Community […]

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1861: Fort Sumter Surrenders

Ihesiulo Grace 13 April 2015 0

After a 33-hour bombardment by Confederate cannons, Union forces surrendered Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor. The first engagement of the war ended in Rebel victory. The surrender concluded a standoff that began with South Carolina’s secession from the Union on December 20, 1860. When President Abraham Lincoln sent word to Charleston in early […]