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Punch Newspapers Sections Fola Ojo Published 12:16 am It was on the floor of the Old Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia during the Constitutional Convention of 1787. George Washington and many nobles were seated. Then, Benjamin Franklin stood up from among them filled with conviction that prayer to the Creator was necessary before the beginning of any business of the day. He then declared in a speech etched in the cervical spines of history till today: “Mr. President. The small progress we have made after four- or five-weeks close attendance and continual reasonings with each other our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many nays, as ayes is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding. We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been running about in search of it. We have gone back to ancient history for models of government, and examined the dif ....
While nations innovate, Nigeria jabs about hijab The Punch Published 12:22 am A clampdown on 10 schools by the Kwara State Government flared up the brouhaha. To-wear-or-not-to-wear hijab in Christian schools was the crux. The state government directed that all Christian schools must be tolerant of hijab-wearing Muslim students. Its move was hinged on a mid-1970s government decree which entrenched it in the spines of the law that all schools be taken over by the government. Christians were livid that their sacred places were being defiled by hijab-wearing folks. The same state government chanting religious tolerance has reportedly compelled Christian students to wear hijab in Islamic schools against the tenets of their faith. Why must Christians be forced to wear hijab, they asked? Cries of religious repression bawled out from Christians who felt repressed by the majority Muslim government apparatchiks. Government people kept mum for weeks. They knew th ....
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Punch Newspapers Sections Mary Beth Leonard I was proud to arrive in Nigeria and begin my third ambassadorial posting last November. 2020 will long be remembered as the year of the COVID-19 pandemic, and we will look back and honour the lives of the more than 1.5 million people worldwide who lost their lives to this vicious pandemic. 2020 also marked 60 years of bilateral diplomatic relations between the United States and Nigeria, and much has been accomplished over the course of that time as democracy and a free and open business environment continue to grow. Allow me to provide a bit more detail about accomplishments achieved with our Nigerian partners. ....