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Gender Equity And Gender Equality

March 8, 2022March 8, 2022 AlienMedia

By Joseph Ibekwe Gender equality is good. But gender equality cannot be possible. It’s not practically beneficial on a wholesale basis. Gender simply means the roles that society has assigned to men and women by reason of sex differentiation, into either male or female. But since some people refuse to be so differentiated and would rather like to be identified differently, that’s where the problems arise. How to you begin to establish gender equality? What is the basis? What does equality mean? By reason biological imposition, there are certain things…

Onukaba Adinoyi-Ojo: Missing The Maskless Masquerade Five Years After

March 6, 2022March 6, 2022 AlienMedia

By Tunde Olusunle It was four days to his 57th birthday. Exactly five years ago on Sunday, March 5, 2017, however, Onukaba Adinoyi-Ojo, one of Nigeria’s finest, most innovative and most resourceful journalists of all time, died in continually befuddling circumstances. He had attended the 80th birthday celebration of his erstwhile benefactor and boss, Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria’s pioneer president in the current democratic milieu in Abeokuta, earlier that day. He was being chauffeured back to his base in Abuja, by a kinsman and friend, Adas Sadiq, a chartered accountant. The…

Adamu Adamu And NANS’ Infantile Radicalism

March 2, 2022March 2, 2022 AlienMedia

By Farooq Kperogi I just watched the trending video of Education Minister Mallam Adamu Adamu’s interaction with the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) and was disappointed both by the unproductive and embarrassingly infantile jabbering of the NANS president and by Adamu Adamu’s inability to rise superior to the provocative infantilism of the NANS guys. NANS misused an opportunity to plead with the minister to meet ASUU’s demands so students can return to classes. They also missed an opportunity to ask why he supported ASUU when he was out of…

Astute PR Practitioner Henrietta Vathiri Yakubu Bows Out Of FAAN

February 25, 2022February 25, 2022 AlienMedia

One incontrovertible fact in life is: whatever has a beginning must have an end. Three and a half decades ago, Mrs. Henrietta Yakubu started a journey at the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and it has gradually come to an end today, Friday, February 25, 2022. As it is evident today, she has made a mark in the aviation industry as a public relations practitioner guru saddled with the responsibility of presenting the organization she has served over the years in good image in the eyes of its public.…

Need To Re-Perceive The Crisis In Ukraine And Try To See A Russian Perspective

February 25, 2022February 25, 2022 AlienMedia

By Floyd Rudmin Events in Ukraine are moving fast and faster. Dangers of economic paralysis in Ukraine and of wider war with Russia are very real. This essay will argue that we all need to notice our historical biases in perceiving and misperceiving events. My own bias is anti-war. Now is not the time in human history for geopolitical power plays and military alliances. Now is the time for coordinated international actions on climate and economy. I am a Professor of Social and Community Psychology at the University of Tromsø…

Sunday Musings: Abba Kyari As A National Tragedy

February 20, 2022February 20, 2022 AlienMedia

By Innocent Okon For Abba Kyari, the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police and Head of the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, who was widely celebrated as Super cop and well decorated crime buster, this is winter in summer! Earthquake in harvest season!! Sunset at noon!!! Fate has pulled the trigger at his career and freedom with two fateful cases. And fatalities can be conveniently foretold! Just four more promotions to the finish line would have seen him climb to the pinnacle of his profession as the number…

2023: 1000 Young Nigerians Gather for Joint Conference Seek Improved Youth Participation

February 18, 2022February 18, 2022 AlienMedia

Prince Rwang Pam Jnr Four leading civic society groups in the country have concluded plans for a nationwide activity geared towards sensitizing Nigerian youths to participate more in governance and the political process. The project will commence in the Southeast with a ‘Nigeria Youth Conference & Debate Tournament’ scheduled for the 23rd – 26th of March 2022 at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State. The theme for the Conference is, ‘Towards Increased Youth Participation in Governance.’ The organisers of the youth conference are, Online Publishers Association of Nigeria, OPAN,…

2023: Emefiele Declares, ‘My Faith Is In The Hands Of God’

February 16, 2022February 16, 2022 AlienMedia

Godwin Emefiele (left) and Buhari Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele has said he remained focused on his job and will continue his support for the Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal government’s economic recovery drive. Emefiele’s remarks followed recent reports of a thick plans by some big wigs in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) “including some officials in the presidency”, to drag him into the 2023 presidential race. As the clock ticks away towards the end of Buhari’s second term, Emefiele’s name has popped up in the hot race for 2023 Presidency.…

Soludo: The Philosopher King Sets The Stage

February 14, 2022February 14, 2022 AlienMedia

Governor-elect of Anambra State, Prof Charles Soludo Tochukwu Ezukanma The ancient Greek philosopher, Plato, believed that statecraft should be entrusted to the best and most enlightened men in society. He called them “philosopher-kings.” To him, it is only leadership by these “extremely erudite, exceptionally intelligent and brilliantly imaginative” that can bring about a better — just, moral, ethical, prosperous and law abiding — society. The governor-elect in Anambra State, Chukwuma Soludo, is an archetype of Plato’s philosopher-king. From every indication, this “extremely erudite, exceptionally intelligent and brilliantly imaginative” man is…

Awka Residents Slumbering Away Early ‘Mor Mor’ Economy?

February 13, 2022February 13, 2022 AlienMedia

By Gab Okpalaeze Early to bed, early to rise, was part of our nursery rhymes then. But for most inhabitants of Awka, the capital of Anambra State, those rhymes have been confined to the dustbin of history. It is for them early to bed, late to rise. Have you taken time to check on the pattern of economic activities in the ancient black-smith town of Anambra, which some thirty-one years ago emerged the capital city of the new Anambra State? If you have, you would have noticed that Aroma Junction,…