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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Okey Ndibe
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

By Okey Ndibe, Connecticut, USA – Nov. 29, 2011 – A telephone call startled me awake at 3:41 a.m. last Saturday. Still gripped by sleep, I fumbled in the darkness until I palmed my phone. “Hello?” I slurred, my tone testy, ready to chide whoever was on the other end for so thoughtlessly interrupting my [...]
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Elections 2011, INEC Politics, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, Okey Ndibe
Thursday, April 14th, 2011

Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega has made good his promise not to spare any official of the Commission found to have compromised himself in the course of duties. Consequently, he has descended on the legal department of the Commission and suspended some top officials for allegedly changing illegally, names of [...]
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Columnists, NNP Columnists, Okey Ndibe
Monday, February 14th, 2011

Pask many a Nigerian what it would take to turn her country around, and you’re likely to get this answer: “Only God can solve the problems of this country.” The evidence so far is that God isn’t impressed. A people with the extraordinary natural resources and variety of human talent that Nigeria boasts has no [...]
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Articles, Columnists, Okey Ndibe
Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

By Okey Ndibe ( okeyndibe@gmail.com)-Jan 18, 2011 I arrived at the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos on January 8 for what I imagined – or hoped – would be a routine two-week visit to Nigeria. Within moments of arrival, I came to realize that my trip would be anything but normal. The plain-clothed immigration officer, [...]
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Articles, Columnists, Okey Ndibe
Monday, January 3rd, 2011

By Okey Ndibe , Tuesday, January 04, 2011 – Innocent residents of Jos, a once quiescent town, and Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, received gruesome gifts within the last week. On Christmas Eve, several bombs exploded in different parts of Jos, leaving in their wake a death toll as high as eighty, an unknown number of the [...]