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Articles, Cliff I. Edogun, PhD, Columnists, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), NNP Columnists, Presidency
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
By Dr. Cliff I Edogun, NNP, April 26, 2011 The Electoral Realignment The first concrete reality coming out of the presidential poll of April 16 is the emergence of a new electoral realignment that may have conclusively dislodged the previous status quo political network for good. For what many have long considered a natural coalition, […]
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Articles, Columnists, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), NNP Columnists, P, Presidency
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
By Phil Tam-Al Alalibo – NNP – April 23, 2011 – Clearly, the people have spoken and Dr. Goodluck Ebelemi Jonathan has emerged as president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. This marks the first time a southerner of Ijaw extraction has been voted into the office of the presidency. While this victory is commendable […]
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Articles, Elections 2011, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), NNP Columnists, Presidency
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
In this information age, every editor’s worst nightmare is how to discern the wheat from the chaff that they are fed with from different sources on a big news day. Starting from the social networks, electronic mail, BlackBerry instant messenger, regular SMS and phone calls, to good old television, coupled with all the wireless gadgets […]
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Articles, Columnists, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), NNP Columnists, Presidency, Reuben Abati
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
Leadership is what will make Nigeria, it is also what will break it; leadership failure is precisely what is responsible for the crisis that the country is now witnessing after a Presidential election that was adjudged successful by local and international observers and which has received high praise from the United States, Germany, France, Britain, […]
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Articles, Columnists, muhammad Ajah, NNP Columnists
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
By Muhammad Ajah, Abuja, Nigeria, April 2011 – If the Igbo race thinks that a Nigerian president of an Igbo extraction can come through by mere promises made by the present presidential candidates of the major political parties for the April 2011 general elections, they may just continue in their hallucinations of decades. I am […]
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Anthony A. Kila, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
By Anthony A. Kila, London, UK – April 21, 2011 – Before and beyond the obvious irritating and expensive ridicule that Nigerians at home and abroad were exposed to last week, thanks to the postponement of the parliamentary elections (or NASS as they say in the Nigerian parlance), it should now be clear to all […]
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Articles, Cajetan Dike, Columnists, Imo, NNP Columnists
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
By Cajetan Dike, NNP – April 21, 2011 – Following the violence visited on Imo State fortnight ago by Owelle Anayo Rochas Okorocha, the APGA governorship candidate, there are fears that the pseudo philanthropist might after all not be the messiah Imo people have been waiting for. Apart from his proclivity towards violence and bare […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Sunny Chris Okenwa
Wednesday, April 20th, 2011
BY Sunny Chris Okenwa, Abidjan, Ivory Coast – April 20, 2011 – When the Belgian sociologist, Benoît Scheuer, came to Cote d’Ivoire in the late 90’s during the presidency of Henry Konan Bedie he spent some weeks (nay months) in Abidjan and elsewhere in the hinterland and came out with a block-burster documentary with the […]
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Articles, Columnists, Elvis J. Agukwe, Imo, NNP Columnists, State News
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
By Elvis .J. Agukwe, Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria – April 19, 2011 – As a member of the Catholic Church and a communicant at that, I have often been fascinated by the transformational, regenerative and cathartic effect of the sacrament of Eucharist. Preparation for the sacrament defines the essence of Catholicism for it is here […]
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Articles, Columnists, Elections 2011, muhammad Ajah, NNP Columnists
Thursday, April 7th, 2011
By Muhammad Ajah, NNP – April, 2011 – In Nigeria, soldiers are feared to a large extent and respected too. This is a product of the military regimes under which the country was subjected for very long time after Nigeria’s Independence in 1960. Added to that, soldiers are naturally seen as the harshest of all […]
