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Articles, Columnists, muhammad Ajah, NNP Columnists, South-East
Saturday, May 28th, 2011

By Muhammad Ajah, ABuja, Nigeria, May 28, 2011 – Why is the zoning formula coming up again while it was killed and buried when President Goodluck Jonathan indicated interest to run for the 2011 presidency? Lo, as a doctrine in the Christendom asserts, the dead can resurrect. Or this issue is purely a party and […]
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Agatha Okoroiwu, Articles, Columnists, Imo, NNP Columnists, State News
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

By Agatha Okoroiwu, NNP, May 25, 2011 – In spite of manipulations, vile propaganda and outright violence, the opposition in Imo State last week failed woefully to rout and remove Governor Ikedi Ohakim as they had boasted. In spite of their undisguised desperation and their utopian promises to Imo people, the voters still showed their […]
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Articles, Columnists, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

By Dr. Leonard Karshima Shilgba, Yola, Nigeria – May 25, 2011 – Eleven days after Nigeria got her political independence on October 1, 1960, the Sardauna of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello said, as was carried by the Parrot newspaper on October 12, 1960: “The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Olu Ojedokun, PhD
Monday, May 23rd, 2011

By Dr. Olu Ojedokun, London, UK – May 23, 2011 – Every generation is often presented with opportunities to offer definition, scope and direction to its nation. This extends to the construction of defining values, the anchoring of the nation’s progress and creating an all-inclusive space for its development. For our forbearers, who struggled in support […]
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Articles, NNP Columnists, Reuben Abati
Saturday, May 21st, 2011

IT is difficult to believe the statement allegedly made by the Special Adviser on Youth, Sports and Social Development, Dolapo Badru, to the effect that there is a law in Lagos state which makes the giving of alms to beggars anywhere in the state, an offence punishable by two years imprisonment without an option […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
By Ugo chukwu Ejinkeonye, Lagos, Nigeria – May 21, 2011 – Last Wednesday (May 11, 2011), Newt Gingrich, the 58th Speaker of the United States Congress (1995-1999), but who is better known for championing a historic opposition against President Bill Clinton in the 1990s, and, perhaps, also, for leading a team of conservatives to win […]
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Africa & World Politics, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Paul I. Adujie
Saturday, May 21st, 2011

By Paul I. Adujie, New York, NY – May 21, 2011 – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled, or expected, to meet with President Obama in the White House this week, in fact, in a matter of days. Even before the expected meeting, Mr. Netanyahu has already arrogated to himself and set out broad outlines […]
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Anthony A. Kila, Articles, Columnists, Governors, NNP Columnists
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
By Anthony A. Kila, London, UK – May 21, 2011 – In democracy, government is not just about nominating people into power, providing services and representing people; it is also about building and defending institutions, setting standards, being accountable and transparent. In dealing with their universities, which is part of my own most immediate constituency, […]
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Articles, Columnists, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
By Dr. Leonard Karshima Shilgba, Yola, Nigeria – May 19, 2011 – May 29th, 2011 signals the end of an era, an era when pre-independence Nigerians dominated affairs in Nigeria; an era of wasted opportunities. Simply put, the pre-independence era is one that Nigerians should not be proud of. Who are the fathers of Nigeria? […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Odimegwu Onwumere
Thursday, May 19th, 2011

By Odimegwu Onwumere, Rivers, Nigeria, May 19, 2011 -With his two most recent books on General Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, Professor Tam David-West has launched himself famously, into the mysterious world of writers. The titles of the books are, Who Really is Gen. Muhammadu Buhari ? and The Sixteen Sins of General Muhammadu Buhari. As great […]