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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012

By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | March 28, 2012 – The foremost African American leader of the 20 th Century, Martin Luther King Jr., having been arrested for leading a protest against racial segregation, wrote from his prison cell in Birmingham, Alabama. It was a letter he addressed to a group of clergymen that […]
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American Politics, Anthony A. Kila, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012

By Anthony A. Kila | London, UK | March 27, 2012 – Hard as mere students of politics and especially those chronic political junkies in the rest of the world might try, it is practically impossible to ignore American politics. As a means of detoxicating ourselves from the binge consumption we went through during their […]
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Articles, Columnists, Kunle Ojeleye, NNP Columnists, South-West
Sunday, March 25th, 2012

By Dr. Kunle Ojeleye | Calgary, Canada | March 25, 2012 – On 18 March 2012, I read the shocking news of the “suicide” of Egba high Chief Oluwole Olumide in Ogun State, Nigeria. Whilst I do not have any affiliation or special interest in Ogun State, and do not know any of the protagonists, […]
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Africa & World Politics, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Philip Ikomi, Women Politics
Saturday, March 24th, 2012

By Philip Ikomi | NNP | March 24, 2012 – A sizable number of Nigerians, especially in the Nigerian press announce with gusto and optimism the nomination of Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala for the next World Bank President. Yes, she is highly qualified for the post. She served in the Bank and has served and is serving […]
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Africa & World Politics, Articles, Chidi Anyaeche, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012

By Chidi Anyaeche | London, UK | March 22, 2012 – This article is a summation of responses to a question posed by this author on Harvard Business Review section of the website Linkedin.com. The question was “What are the biggest challenges in doing business in Sub Sahara Africa? Those that responded came from all […]
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Articles, Columnists, Judiciary, NNP Columnists, Raheem Oluwafunminiyi
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012

By Raheem ‘MOSHOESHOE’ Oluwafunminiyi | Ibadan, Nigeria | March 22, 2012 | When we look back at our history, one is reminded of the wanton injustice which pervaded all strata of the Nigerian society firstly, in what historians have termed colonial Nigeria with its attendant whimsical colonial policies and secondly, independent Nigeria with its continued […]
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Articles, Columnists, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

By Dr. Leonard Karshima Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | March 20, 2012 – I am an investor at the Nigeria stock market. I invested all of my gratuity earnings that I received from the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) about six years after I had left the university in purchasing shares of the Transcorp Company in […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Saturday, March 17th, 2012

By Tochukwu Ezukanma|Lagos, Nigeria|March 17, 2012 – The Goodluck Jonathan administration deployed soldiers and tanks in the streets of Lagos. This was not because the city was under siege from an invading enemy army and therefore needed to be defended by the Nigerian armed forces. It was not to quell an insurrection by anarchists and […]
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Anthony A. Kila, Articles, Biafra, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Saturday, March 17th, 2012

By Anthony A. Kila | London, UK | March 17, 2012 – Once a person and above all a personality dies it is common practice to treat him or her with kindness and with more compassion and general understanding. After death, hatchets are buried and hitherto foes are seen through less hostile prisms. The case […]
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Africa & World Politics, Articles, Columnists, Ikechukwu Enyiagu, NNP Columnists
Saturday, March 17th, 2012

By Ikechukwu Enyiagu |NNP| March 17, 2012 – Foundation matters in all everything comes with its foundation. In architecture, and indeed, in every other sphere of life, growth and living, foundation takes center stage. If you have got to go higher, then you have got to dig lower; and if you must stand taller, […]