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IPM Completes Ten-Ward Tour of Bakassi and Brings the Conversation to a Town Hall

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  IPM Completes Ten-Ward Tour of Bakassi and Brings the Conversation to a Town Hall Political movements often talk about "reaching the grassroots," but few put in the legwork to visit every ward in a local government area before holding a major meeting. The Ideal Progressive Movement (IPM) says it has done exactly that in Bakassi. After touring all ten wards of the Local Government Area, the group brought political stakeholders, traditional rulers and community members together for a Town Hall Meeting. The aim was to keep the conversation going and make sure the people of Bakassi have a voice in it. Who Is Behind the Movement The Ideal Progressive Movement is a grassroots support group within the All Progressives Congress (APC). Its Board of Trustees is chaired by AIG Chief Enene Okon (Rtd.), and under his leadership the group has built its work around two things: mobilising people at the community level and engaging stakeholders directly. The Movement describes its appro...

Obama's Two-Year Thought Experiment: What If Women Ran the World?

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Obama's Two-Year Thought Experiment: What If Women Ran the World? Barack Obama has floated a provocative idea: hand every government on the planet over to women for two years, then check the results. The former U.S. president shared the thought while talking about the need to give younger generations and fresh voices more room to lead. He admitted it's something he used to wonder about even while he was in office — what it might look like if women took the reins of every country at once, just to see how things played out. He was careful to say this wouldn't magically fix everything. But he's convinced the outcome would still be an improvement over what we have now not utopia, just noticeably better. It's less a policy proposal than a thought experiment about representation and leadership one that keeps resurfacing whenever conversations turn to who gets a seat at the table, and why.