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Articles, Columnists, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, Local Govt, NNP Columnists
Saturday, November 12th, 2022
By Dr. Leonard Karshima Shilgba | NNP | Nov. 12, 2022 – The concern of some of us who know is that, this failure by state governors to release to the Local Government Councils their monthly statutory allocation from the Federation Account has contributed to the blight of poverty in our communities, dilapidated primary schools and […]
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Articles, Columnists, Education, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists, Presidency
Wednesday, August 17th, 2022
By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba | NNP | August 17, 2022 MY THOUGHTS ON ASUU STRIKE Lagos State universities are not on strike! I am yet to understand why academic staff of state-owned universities often abandon their classrooms when ASUU declares a trade dispute with the Federal Government, not State Governments, over noncompliance with agreements […]
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All Peoples' Congress (APC), Articles, Columnists, Labour Party (LP), Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP)
Sunday, July 24th, 2022
By Prof. Leonard Karshima Shilgba | NNP | July 24, 2022 – First, let me congratulate all Nigerians on this Democracy Day. We must also congratulate ourselves that Nigeria has endured uninterrupted representative democracy since 1999. I have used the word “endure” deliberately, because much more has happened in the last 23 years that could have […]
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Articles, Columnists, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists
Tuesday, June 21st, 2022
BIRTHING THE NIGERIAN SPIRIT We must come to a time in our journey when religion shall be only a PRIVATE affair; Then, the Nigerian spirit shall be born. We must not complain about poor governance, only to insist on the menu of stale religion at the same time; Then, the Nigerian spirit shall be born. […]
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All Peoples' Congress (APC), Articles, Columnists, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists, Party Politics
Sunday, August 15th, 2021
By Dr. Leonard Karshima Shilgba | NNP | August 15, 2021 – The strength of any political party derives from the framing of a constitution which provides for equity, fairness, and liberty of thought, choice, and advocacy, and compliance by all party organs and members with the constitution. The state of any nation that practices representative […]
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Articles, Books & Magazines, Columnists, Headlines, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists
Monday, July 12th, 2021
Nigeria and Her Seven Secrets: Building a More Perfect Union: Pre-1914 to 2016 Nigeria and Her Seven Secrets is a manual for Nigeria’s socio-political restructuring. The book provides an exposition on the foundation of and solutions to Nigeria’s many social and moral ills. There are some arguments that abound for and against convocation of a […]
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Articles, Columnists, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists
Friday, January 15th, 2021
By Dr. Leonard Karshima Shilgba | NNP | January 15, 2021 – Thanking God for giving each of us another year of opportunities of service to him would be appropriate. As leaders in our various corners and at variegated levels, we need a pause and self-examination to ascertain if we have used our influence well: […]
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Articles, Columnists, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists
Saturday, November 7th, 2020
By Dr. Leonard Karshima Shilgba | NNP | November 7, 2020 – The recent wave of civic consciousness which is blowing across Nigeria, in spite of the gust of sabotage and betrayals that it has chalked up, fits into a harbinger of nationhood for the Nigerian State. If the #ENDSARS triggers succeed in birthing the beautiful […]
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#Endsars, Articles, Columnists, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists
Tuesday, October 27th, 2020
By Dr. Leonard Karshima Shilgba | NNP | October 27, 2020 – For a time I held my peace on the #EndSARS movement. In fact, I had tuned off certain matters about Naija. There was a time I became frustrated by Nigerians and disappointed in many of my compatriots for their apparent cowardice, hiding behind the […]
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Articles, Columnists, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85), NNP Columnists, Presidency
Thursday, July 23rd, 2020
By Dr. Leonard Karshima Shilgba | NNP | July 23, 2020 – More than five years ago, President Buhari’s party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) won a historic presidential election to replace a ruling political party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). President Buhari predicated his vision on the tripod of the Economy, Security, and Anticorruption—to […]
