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Abiodun Komolafe, Articles, Columnists, Governors, NNP Columnists, Osun, State News
Saturday, September 28th, 2019
By Abiodun Komolafe | Ijebu-Jesa, Osun State, Nigeria | September 28, 2019 – By now, Nigerians must have settled the idea of who actually governs legally in Osun, especially, after the pronouncement of the Supreme Court. That said, it is also a fact that, come November 27, 2019, Gboyega Oyetola will mark his first anniversary as Governor […]
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Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Saturday, September 28th, 2019
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | September 28, 2019 – Controversy has trailed the recent decision by the Federal Government to proscribe and designate the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) – also known as the Shiites- as a terrorist organisation. The Federal Government had filed an ex parte application before the court […]
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Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Thursday, September 19th, 2019
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa | Nigeria – The recent news that the United States’ Department of Justice has indicted 80 individuals, 78 of whom are Nigerians, (mostly Igbo), for email scam and money laundering scheme of about $3bn, has expectedly led to the ethnicization of the issue. I had a very light-hearted chat on […]
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Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Rivers, State News, Zamfara
Tuesday, August 27th, 2019
By Arnold A. Alalibo | NNP | August 27, 2019 – As the judgment of the Supreme Court sacking all elected officials of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Zamfara State in the 2019 general election assumes the airs of welcome uniqueness in some quarters, the development has continued to generate negative echoes in others. From […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye
Tuesday, August 27th, 2019
By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye | Lagos, Nigeria | August 27, 2019 – If Nigeria is working, we will know! Those were the exact words of late Prof Chinua Achebe, Africa’s foremost novelist and distinguished intellectual. In other words, the citizens do not need any bogus claims by government’s megaphones to realise that there is an improvement in […]
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Articles, Columnists, Governors, Imo, Kenneth Uwadi, NNP Columnists, State News
Tuesday, August 27th, 2019
By Kenneth Uwadi | Imo State, Nigeria | August 27, 2019 – MO; 90 DAYS OF NOTHINGNESS Andrew Nnanna arrived his office building in Orji-Owerri in Imo State promptly at eight am as was his habit. He needed only to park his car and use the stairs to the floor of the Estate Company where […]
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Abiodun Komolafe, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Yakubu Gowon (1966-75)
Sunday, August 25th, 2019
By Abiodun Komolafe | NNP | August 25, 2019 – Yakubu Dan-Yumma Gowon, 84, is Nigeria’s former Head of State. He served in the Nigerian Army between 1954 and 1975. Nine out of those years were dedicated to Nigeria as her ruler. Within that period, he also led war efforts to keep Nigeria as one […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Sunday, August 25th, 2019
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | August 25, 2019 – A widely circulated video shows the then leader of the Hausa/Fulani dominated Northern People’s Congress (NPC) and the premier of the defunct Northern Nigeria, the late Sardauna of Sokoto, Ahmadu Bello, in a 1960 newspaper interview, saying, “The new nation called Nigeria should be the […]
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Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Sunday, August 25th, 2019
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | August 25, 2019 – Omoyele Sowore, former Presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) and publisher of the online citizen newspaper, Sahara Reporters, has been dominating the news since the Department of State Services picked him up in a Lagos hotel on Saturday August 3, 2019 for […]
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Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Friday, August 2nd, 2019
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | August 2, 2019 – The news that President Muhammadu Buhari was interrupted and booed intermittently by some lawmakers while presenting the appropriation bill to the National Assembly recently has been trending on the social media. Also trending is a list of the lawmakers said to have booed […]
