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Articles, Columnists, Kunle Ojeleye, NNP Columnists
Saturday, October 13th, 2012

By Dr. Kunle Ojeleye | Calgary, Canada | Oct. 13, 2012 – The recently released civil war memoirs of Prof. Chinua Achebe There Was A Country: A Personal History of Biafra has generated a violent and virulent furore in regards to comments made by the author in regards to late Chief Obafemi Awolowo’s conduct as […]
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Anambra, Articles, Churchill Okonkwo, Columnists, Governors, NNP Columnists, State News
Saturday, October 13th, 2012

By Churchill Okonkwo | NNP | Oct. 12, 2012 – In the beginning, he claimed not to be a politician but a saint and successful businessman that volunteered to serve and build a new Anambra. Less than 2 years to the end of his tenure, Ndi Anambara are beginning to see the true color of […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Paul I. Adujie, Rivers, State News
Monday, October 8th, 2012

By Paul I. Adujie Esq., | New York, NY | Oct. 8, 2012 | As I wrote to complain and gripe about the traffic mayhem and gridlocks on Nigerian roads last week, and more particularly so, about the traffic standstill in Choba Port Harcourt, a bridge on a major road artery in Port Harcourt actually […]
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Articles, Columnists, Kunle Ojeleye, NNP Columnists
Sunday, October 7th, 2012

By Dr. Kunle Ojeleye | Calgary, Canada | Oct. 7, 2012 – Precisely a week ago, I was unable to attend an event that I had so much looked forward to in the last few years. This was the inaugural lecture, as a Professor of Public Administration, of someone who twenty years ago ceased to […]
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Articles, Columnists, Leburah Ganago, NNP Columnists
Thursday, October 4th, 2012

By Leburah Ganago | NPP | Oct. 4 , 2012 – In the 2012 election year, Republicans have made it clear that bad news is good news for them. All along, they have been strategizing for bad economic news- slow economic recovery, bad monthly job reports have always provided them with their own version of […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Prince Charles Dickson
Thursday, October 4th, 2012
By Prince Charles Dickson | Jos, Nigeria | Oct. 4, 2012 – So, who do we blame, and really is it a blame game or the scary realisation that we are just a nation run on auto-pilot, one for which after 52 years, we are still plagued largely by the same problems? We are 52, […]
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Articles, Columnists, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists, Presidency
Thursday, October 4th, 2012

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | NNP | October 4, 2012 – The first instalment in these series was published on 1December 2011 while the second instalment was on 13 September 2011. In these series, which will not run consecutively, I will try to monitor the putative re-inventions of Goodluck Ebele Jonathan (GEJ) and the consequent […]
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Anthony A. Kila, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012
By Anthony A. Kila | London, UK | Oct. 2, 2012 – At today’s Independence Anniversary declaration, we are compelled to analyse the history of Nigeria once again. The first imperative is that although a lot of people try to make it appear a complex and peculiar incredible series of events and situations, the history […]
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Articles, Columnists, Femi Fani-Kayode, NNP Columnists
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012

By Femi Fani-Kayode | NNP | October 2, 2012 – Lord Apsley and I were colleagues at Harrow School in England approximately 36 years ago. I have never forgotten his uncharitable remarks about Nigeria which led to a heated arguement between us. At that time I found it ironic, and I still do, that this […]
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Articles, Columnists, First Ladies, NNP Columnists, Patience Jonathan, Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye
Wednesday, September 26th, 2012

By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye | Lagos, Nigeria | Sept. 26, 2012 – It is a classic case of ‘One Week, One Controversy’! And the inimitable Dame, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, has been in the news again. She hardly disappoints. Perhaps, before your read this piece, Mrs. Jonathan would have returned from Germany where she had gone “to […]