The Center for Innovative and Pragmatic Development Initiative, CIPDI, has called on governments, corporate organisations and individuals to break the challenges impeding women from reaching their GOD given potentials. This is contained in a statement by the president and founder of the Centre, Ifeanyi Nwanoro on Tuesday in commemoration of the 2022 International Women Day with a theme: “Breaking the Bias”. According to Nwanoro, “We must work studiously to break the challenges and impediments preventing women from reaching their GOD given potentials. We must encourage, equip, and inspire women of all ages to create, to innovate, to lead, to dream…
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Those privileged of having met their grandparents, or even better, their great-grandparents, know of the staggering improvements in human prosperity over the last 100 years. For those born into wealth it’s noticeable through the advances of modern medicine (allowing you to meet your great-grandparents in the first place), but the changes are even more breathtaking for those whose ancestors have a background in farming. In fact, most of our ancestor’s stories relate to farming. European immigrants to the United States are often referred to as “seeking a better life”, but the harsher reality is that in most of Europe famine…
I am proud to be a farmer. It’s not easy work, but at my core, it is who I am. I wake up early, go to bed late, and spend countless months planning for the next growing season. Unfortunately, all of that hard work can go down the drain with even the slightest shift in the supply chain. So much of farm life relies on the grace of God and factors that we can’t control; we need good weather, good conditions, and good health. We do all that we can to minimize the uncertainties that face us by controlling what…
Pursuant to President Putin’s crackdown on media outlets and individuals who fail to cut down on impartiality in their mode of reporting, several Western media organizations have since Friday, suspended their journalistic operations in Russia. Bloomberg News and the BBC said their correspondents in Russia could no longer freely report because of the new censorship law signed by Mr. Putin, which effectively criminalized independent journalism on the invasion of Ukraine. Under the legislation, which had commenced operation immediately, journalists who simply describe the military operation in Ukraine as a “war” could be sentenced to prison. Between President Putin and the…
The phrase Tit for tat is often used to describe the infliction of an injury or insult in return for one suffered by another. Those with patience, don’t react mindlessly to minor or immediate irritations. No, like Don Corleone in the God Father, they wait with careful calculations for the right time to respond. And when they do, they retaliate in what may look gentle, but dangerous and distinctively devastating. The result of such reaction is often referred to as, a tit for tat. The sentiment of patience is regarded as the greatest virtue of those with the capacity to…
The two most disadvantaged groups in Nigeria’s representational politics are northern Christians and Southern Muslims. In Nigeria’s internal geopolitics, these two groups are structurally invisible, politically subjugated, and told to be content with their political and symbolic marginality. Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a Muslim from Osun/Lagos states, and Yakubu Dogara, a northern Christian from Bauchi State, embody this phenomenon eloquently. When Tinubu kick-started his run for the presidency in 2020, he settled on Yakubu Dogara to be his running mate to balance his ticket. It was one of the reasons Dogara defected from PDP to APC in July 2020. But Tinubu’s…
Professor Bako Ezra Amans is the immediate past Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academics) of Ahmadu Bello University Zaria. I first met Prof Amans in 1987 when he brisk-walked to our class to lecture “Elements of Agronomy” as a service course. Then, we, the undergraduate students of Engineering had a superiority mentality of not being serious with non-engineering courses because of “their simplicity” and considered such courses as a “bonus” for boosting our overall grades. It was at that moment, Amans breezed into our class, spoke with light Tangalle intonation that produced a kind of melody as golden voice, we could not but…
Women have been protesting at the National Assembly since Wednesday against the rejection of several bills seeking gender equality in the country. They have very clear demands, that Nigeria belongs to all citizens, half of whom are women. The systematic discrimination against women and their marginalisation in national and state affairs must stop if Nigeria is to develop into an inclusive and functional democracy. I believe that this struggle requires that progressive and democratically minded Nigerian men must come into the ring and make clear that they stand for inclusiveness so that our mothers, wives, sisters and daughters would also…
By Abdallah el-Kurebe Click here to read the first part of this investigation The investigation revealed a very troubling pattern throughout Abegunde’s case. This troubling pattern manifested in the form of the elevation of mere unsubstantiated allegations to the level of sacred truth, and a concomitant continuous rejection of actual evidence. This was the recurring theme from the initial indictment, through the arrest, the bond hearing, the superseding indictment, the trial, the motion for judgement of acquittal due to insufficient evidence, sentencing, and the appeals. Abegunde’s arrest Abegunde’s arrest and Indictment: On February 7, 2018, FBI agents arrested Olufolajimi Abegunde…
One of the most popular—and dangerous—assumptions in the world is that violence keeps us safe. I live in the United States, a country where the more guns we have, the less safe we are. That helps me to notice irrational assumptions that prevent creative thought. The Ukrainian government’s choice to use its military to defend against Russia reminds me of the stark contrast between the choices of the Danish and Norwegian governments when faced with threat from the Nazi German war machine. Like the Ukrainian government, the Norwegian government chose to fight militarily. Germany invaded and the Norwegian army resisted…