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Articles, Columnists, Imo, Kenneth Uwadi, NNP Columnists, State News
Saturday, March 7th, 2020

By Kenneth Uwadi | Imo State, Nigeria | March 7, 2020 – Dante Alighieri did say “the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality”. For me, I will always say the truth and nothing but the truth. I remember a Yoruba adage ‘‘omo osan loun ko […]
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Abiodun Komolafe, All Peoples' Congress (APC), Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Saturday, March 7th, 2020

By Abiodun Komolafe | Osun State | Nigeria | March 7, 2020 | Rumours are rumours! But, if, indeed, there is any substance or element of truth in the rumoured presidential ambition of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, then, he will have to take some serious steps for it to become a reality. Charity, they say, begins at home! For him […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Sunday, February 9th, 2020

By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | February 9, 2020 – The Nigerian political elite behave like a colonial or Apartheid elite. They inhabit an island of opulence and extravagance in an ocean of encompassing poverty and mass suffering. It is an island governed by vicious exploitation of the system, crass contempt for the people and […]
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Articles, Columnists, Governors, Imo, Kenneth Uwadi, NNP Columnists, State News
Sunday, February 9th, 2020

By Kenneth Uwadi | Imo State | February 9, 2020 – It was Emerson who said in The Over Soul ‘’the soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know the truth when we see it; let the skeptic and scoffers say what they choose’’. In Imo , it was well known that Emeka […]
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Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Monday, February 3rd, 2020

By Arnold A. Alalibo | NNP | February 3, 2020 – Nigeria’s population has become an embarrassment that cannot be hidden anymore. A population time bomb is dangling on the country waiting to detonate unless urgent preventive measures are taken. A similar fear was equally expressed by the Director of Monetary Policy of the Central Bank […]
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Articles, Columnists, Elections, Elections 2019, General Politics, Governors, Imo, NNP Columnists, State News, Walter Duru
Thursday, January 30th, 2020

By Dr. Walter Duru, PhD | NNP | January 30, 2020 – On Tuesday, January 14, 2020, the Supreme Court of Nigeria, in one of the most controversial judgments in Nigerian history, sacked the Governor of Imo State, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha and declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress- APC, Senator Hope Uzodimma […]
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Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists, Presidency
Saturday, January 25th, 2020

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | January 25, 2020 – This is not the best of times for the Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo. Since the beginning of Buhari’s second term in office, there has been speculations on whether the VP would continue to enjoy the sort of legroom he was allowed in […]
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Arlene Schar, Articles, Columnists, David Leffler, NNP Columnists
Saturday, January 25th, 2020

By Arlene J. Schar and Dr. David Leffler | Iowa, USA | Jan. 25, 2020 – The movie Wag the Dog was released a generation ago, one month before a presidential scandal which invited comparisons between that film and the reality of that time. Now, 23 years later, we find ourselves in the midst of yet another […]
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Articles, Columnists, Imo, NNP Columnists, State News, Walter Duru
Thursday, January 16th, 2020

By Walter Duru, Ph.D | NNP | January 16, 2020 – Two weeks ago, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released its Report on the State of Corruption in Nigeria, in which it acknowledges Imo as the least corrupt state in Nigeria. The same report also indicates that Kogi is the most corrupt state in Nigeria. […]
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Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Sunday, January 12th, 2020

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | January 12, 2020 – In this reflection I am using the phrase welcoming a ‘new decade’ very cautiously as I am mindful of the controversy over whether January 1 2020 should be regarded as the beginning of a new decade or the end of the last decade. […]