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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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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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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 […]
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Sunday, May 20th, 2018

Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | May 20, 2018 – “Cry aloud, spare not; lift up your voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression…Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: They ask […]
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Articles, Columnists, Education, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists
Saturday, March 10th, 2018

By Dr. Leonard Karshima Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | March 10, 2018 – Last Saturday, a friend forwarded to me this headline: “Nigerians are receiving expired education, says US Varsity VC.” The story was published in a mainstream national newspaper. He and I have studied and worked in countries that supposedly do not offer “expired […]
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Articles, Columnists, Elections 2019, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists
Friday, February 23rd, 2018

By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | Feb. 23, 2018 – DEmocracy , as a human contrivance, is dependent on human choice among an array of options. The choice of majority of qualified electors is considered “free and fair” no matter the intrinsic quality of the choice that often manifests later in the […]
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Monday, May 23rd, 2016

By Leonard Karshima Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | May 23, 2016 – There has been a rash of proposals to resolve the menace of cattle herders’ invasion of Nigerian farmlands, who are killing unarmed Nigerians (children, women and men) and burning down or destroying houses and property, where understandably, no feeds or grasses exist for their cattle. […]
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Thursday, May 12th, 2016

By Leonard Karshima Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | May 12, 2016 – Nations are not labeled “Developed” just because they have world-class infrastructure, which are after all only by-products of development, but because of the amount and quality of knowledge that they have created through exercised developed minds, by which I mean minds that are able to […]
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Sunday, March 20th, 2016

By Dr. Leonard Karshima Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | March 20, 2016 – To you, my fellow compatriots, I say, “Do not turn away your attention from this epistle of mine; I address you plainly.” Do you know that we, the people determine what manner of nation we want built? Let us reason together. Every […]