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WTO Appointment: 8 Things Women Can Learn From Ngozi Okonjo Iweala’s Achievements
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY: WHAT WOMEN CAN LEARN FROM THE EMERGENCE OF DR NGOZI OKONJO IWEALA 8 Things Women Can Learn From Ngozi Okonjo Iweala’s Life Achievements The emergence of Dr Ngozi Okonjo Iweala as the new WTO DG has been received with great joy all over the world. Her appointment as the Director General of the 26 year old Geneva based body with 164 member countries representing ninety eight percent of the global trade is ground breaking and highly commendable. The implications for Nigeria and for women in the global sphere are far reaching.For the African continent, the news is particularly disruptive in positive ways. This is because the continent is plagued by artificial limitations placed on the path of women, reducing their values to only child bearing and placing a glass ceil...
How Nkerehi Women Protested Against The Law
HOW ‘NKEREHI WOMEN’ PROTESTED AGAINST THE LAW By Gozie Okafor (Esq) The right to protest is a constitutionally guaranteed right in Nigeria as enshrined in Section 40 of the 1999 Constitution. It is essential to our democracy, giving voice to those with no platform or privilege. It is one of the powers that people can exercise beyond voting in an election. Democracy thrives on deliberating, arguing and dissent. However, like every other human right, the right to protest or freedom of Assembly is not absolute. It has its limitations and when the bounds of the law is breached, it can be said to be illegal. Some women who gathered under the banner of “Nkerehi women” embarked on an illegal protest to register their displeasure on the name change of the community to Umuchukwu. To drive home my p...
Valentine: The Love We Need Now
Valentine: The Love We Need Now By Melie Onyejepu It is another season of love. The feel of love is in the air as the world marks yet another Valentine which is celebrated every 14th of February. Unfortunately, we talk about love without living the life of love. It becomes pertinent that we enjoin one another about the essence of the celebration and be guided by the tenets of what Valentine stands for. Valentine ’s Day and the story of its Patron Saint is rooted in true love, service and sacrifice which the world desperately needs at this time . In our world today, Love would appear to have become a scarce commodity. Our collective attitude portrays a generation that is beginning to be strange to love. Our religion and politics are devoid of love and this has permeated every facet of our n...
The Miracle Of The Brain: A Motivational Article For Africans
The Miracle Of The Brain – A Motivational Article For Africans *Underdevelopment in Africa: Use your brain now or perish. Anambra procurement boss advises Nigerians in a powerful article* *The Miracle of the brain- Melie Onyejepu* It was Arthur Conan Doyle who exclaimed, “I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is mere appendix”. The brain is the most amazing part of the human body. It is providence most definitely precious gift to humanity. According to Joel Davis, the human brain is the last and greatest scientific frontier. It is the most distinguishing characteristics between man and other lower animals. Man was an unlikely candidate for power in a natural world where dominant adaptions were speed, agility, jaws and claws. He ascended from the stone age because he was able to dominate and...
Seven Men Whose Wives Are Making Waves
Seven Men Whose Wives are Making Waves Stanford Professor and Nobel Laureate, Alvin Roth, in a research work titled Deferred Acceptance Algorithms, posits that, regardless of how successful any of the partners is in marriage, both spouses are likely to be happy if they understand contentment. The Roth’s rule is still largely valid especially for men who feel insecure around successful women. Professor Roth’s rule has been strengthened by Anna. N: et al (2015) through their research titled, “An Examination of How Husbands, As Key Stakeholders, Impact the Success of Women Entrepreneurs” in the Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development. They conclude in their research that husbands’ support for their wives increases the chances of the women becoming successful women entrepreneurs a...
Adequate Storage Of Your Medicines
ADEQUATE STORAGE OF YOUR MEDICINES By Dr. Akinmutola Abayomi All medicines are meant to be stored properly after purchase in ensuring that its integrity remain intact upon consumption, thus eliciting the desired response. It is absolutely important that medicines are safely kept away from certain harsh environmental conditions and contaminants that may likely compromise their quality and pharmacological actions. A number of medicines including dermatological preparations like creams and ointments are light sensitive. This simply means that they lose their potency or degrade substantially on exposure to light. To forestall this, pharmaceutical companies protect these light sensitive medicines by formulating them in light protective containers or packages. As a precaution on the path of the ...
Four Personalities Who Inspired Nigeria This Year
*CSP GARBA, NGOZI OKONJO IWEALA, OLUMIDE AKPATA AND THE NIGERIAN YOUTHS: FOUR PERSONALITIES WHO INSPIRED THE NATION THIS YEAR* Godwin Maduka It was Ralph Nader who stated and rightly so that there can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship. In other words, democracy can only thrive and be deepened when the citizens of a State are alive to their responsibilities. The recent events in the country this year have changed my perception and my thoughts about leadership. Citizenship in Nigeria in the previous years has been marked with apathy and tepidness. The laissez-faire attitude is largely because of the distrust Nigerian citizens nurse against the Nigerian State. But it is that way because the people do not understand the enormity of the power they wield. This lukewarm attitu...
Murder & Lies: A Testament Of The Buhari-Led Democratic Regime
Murder & Lies: A Testament Of The Buhari-Led Democratic Regime “Sai Baba!” “Sai Baba!!” The youth chanted on the street as they campaigned for Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 thinking they had met their political-Moses who would give them a better life; a change from the miserable one they were accustomed to. Little did they know they were campaigning for a political-Lucifer, who would deliver nothing but death and more suffering to their doorstep. On Nigeria’s independence anniversary in October 2020, Nigerian youths, seeing the country wasn’t better since the white oppressors left their land sixty years ago, dared to confront their black oppressors – the Nigerian government. Many youths in different parts of the country, comprising of vocal women and men, ranging from Millennials to Generat...
The Boomerang Situation And Its Root In Nigeria
According to business blogs hub, poor mentality is a mindset that people develop over time based on a strong belief that they will never have enough money, the prevailing state of mind have given rise to countless negative situations that seems so sticky and never goes away no matter the effort put towards ending it. At the tail of the situation stems the following: 1)insecurity 2) unemployment 3)poor education sector 4)poor health sector 5) epileptic power supply 6) corruption 7)poor road network. 1) Insecurity: Insecurity have been a major course for concern in Nigeria in recent years and can be alluded to many factors such as, diversion of funds by those in leadership, funds which would have been used in equipping the military and other security agencies in the country to battle insecur...
WTO DG: Okonjo Iweala Building Trusts From Her Roots
WTO DG: Okonjo Iweala Building Trusts From Her Roots In the past few days, I have keenly followed the enthusiasm and the seemingly endless endorsements that have greeted the declaration and candidacy of Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for the position of Director-General of the World Trade Organisation. From the diplomatic circles, she received the support of […] You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair share of Internet revenue.
Probacus: Akpabio And The Musketeers
Probacus: Akpabio And The Musketeers In the last few weeks, the nation has been agog with revelations and counter revelations of huge fraudulent activities happening in various government agencies and parastatals. It’s like a movie playing before our eyes, and it seems we’d continue to enjoy the action for some time to come. Thank God we have a proactive Speaker of the House of Representatives leader in Mr Femi Gbajamiala and he has taken the bull by the horn to constitute a probe panel into how funds are appropriated by government agencies. Nigerians would have had no idea what beautiful scenes were playing behind the everyday scenes we see to cause the mess that Nigeria is in today. The first to make the headlines was former EFCC chairman Mr Ibrahim Magu, the supposedly incorruptible cor...
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala – A Perfect Fit For The WTO
In the cesspool of corruption and continuous A-grade drama that is Nigeria, only a handful of names have stood out to tell a different story, not only in Nigerian circles but across global scenes, too. One very prominent name to reckon with is the iconic name of Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who through sheer hard work and pristine service has risen to the ranks of a national hero. She is a woman of reckoning across the world, sitting on many seats without breaking them, standing at many a podium, accepting heavy responsibilities and handling them all with classy aplomb, thus deserving the countless feathered caps that sit so immaculately well on her head. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is not a name that suddenly leapt out of nowhere. It belongs to a personality that has worked hard and tirelessly in the ...
