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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 […]
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Articles, Columnists, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists
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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Articles, Columnists, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists
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. […]
