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Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Saturday, February 9th, 2019
Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | Feb. 9, 2019 – Obasanjo’s recent 16-page letter to Buhari, which sounds more like a state-of-the nation address, has, as expected, dominated the deadlines since it was delivered on Sunday, January 20, 2019. Titled, ‘Points for Concern’, the 4,018-word commentary was a bare-knuckled critique of the Buhari government […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Olalekan Waheed Adigun, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Thursday, February 7th, 2019
By Olalekan Waheed Adigun | NNP | Feb. 7, 2019 – After much hesitations, I decided to read ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s recent epistle For The Records: Points of Concern and Action. I must confess, I was not disappointed in its contents knowing fully well OBJ’s recent political activities. For those of us who know OBJ […]
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Headlines, Jideofor Adibe, PhD
Wednesday, January 30th, 2019
igeria’s presidential election scheduled for February 16, 2019, will be the country’s sixth since May 1999, when the military handed over power to a democratically elected civilian government. Though there are 73 political parties fielding candidates in the election, the race is generally believed to be between the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Alhaji Atiku […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Sunday, January 27th, 2019
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | January 27, 2019 – There are inherent conflicts between sedentary farmers and itinerant herdsmen because of their competing needs for water and ever diminishing arable land and pastures. With population growth and increasing urbanization steadily encroaching on available land, the competition for land between them continually intensifies; increasing the […]
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Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Thursday, January 17th, 2019
By Arnold A. Alalibo | NNP | January 17, 2019 – Precisely this time last week, fellow Nigerians donned anxious looks as they lay in wait to usher in the New Year, of course, the very first day in 2019. Amidst the apprehensiveness was a huge circuit of confidence that their fortunes would advance greatly […]
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Articles, Columnists, Elections, Elections 2019, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Thursday, January 17th, 2019
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | January 17, 2019 – 2019: Opposition versus state institutions Jideofor Adibe By the time Nigeria conducts its elections in February and March next year, it will be almost 20 years since its current experiment with liberal democracy – the longest period the country has been under […]
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Articles, Columnists, Governors, Headlines, Imo, Kenneth Uwadi, NNP Columnists, State News
Thursday, January 17th, 2019
By Kenneth Uwadi | NNP | January 2019 – I got into the ship, destination Bonny, a big ship. Nnamdi runs the engineering office from the throne in the centre of a room. One wall is covered in instruments, the other is a long window overlooking the Bonny River . Nnamdi is a friend. He was assisting me to cross […]
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Articles, Biafra, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Thursday, January 17th, 2019
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | January 17, 2019 – At the pool of Bethesda, Jesus saw a man that had been sick for thirty eight years, and asked him, “Do you want to be made whole”? It was a question that seemed irrelevant and insensitivity. But then, some are sick but do not […]
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American Politics, Articles, Columnists, David Leffler, NNP Columnists
Thursday, January 10th, 2019
By Arlene Schar and Dr. David Leffler | NNP | January 10, 2019 – It is not necessary for President Trump to “shut down” the US government or close down the Southern US Border to obtain ideal border security. A scientific, field-tested solution to the immigration crisis already exists. It is cheaper, more effective, and more humane […]
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Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Wednesday, December 26th, 2018
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | December 21, 2018 – Since the Vice Presidential debate on December 14 2018 between the candidates of selected five political parties, there have been continuous spin not only on who won the debate but also on whether Buhari would show up for the presidential debate slated for […]
