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Articles, Columnists, Headlines, NNP Columnists, Reuben Abati
Tuesday, February 27th, 2018
Karma is a bitch. Poetic justice is a bastard. Both have combined to wrong-foot the incumbent Buhari administration to make it look like a big mistake and an act of misjudgment by the Nigerian electorate. If Buhari had been disallowed from taking power in 2015, and those who advised President Goodluck Jonathan not to give a damn had their way, and Jonathan […]
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Articles, Columnists, Elections 2019, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists
Friday, February 23rd, 2018
By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | Feb. 23, 2018 – DEmocracy , as a human contrivance, is dependent on human choice among an array of options. The choice of majority of qualified electors is considered “free and fair” no matter the intrinsic quality of the choice that often manifests later in the […]
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Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Thursday, February 15th, 2018
By Arnold A. Alalibo | NNP | February 2018 – It has become expedient for all Nigerians to be subjected to mandatory periodic drug tests, given the high crime rate and the pervasive killings across the land. Honestly, how this proposition can be accomplished remains unclear at the moment. From time to time Nigeria is rudely […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Saturday, February 10th, 2018
By Adele Adeniji | Port-Harcourt, Nigeria | February 10, 2018 – In May 2015, the then Minister of Finance, Dr Okonjo-Iweala shocked many when she revealed that she is a cancer survivor. She made this revelation at the night of tributes in honour of the late Oronto Douglas who fell to the bullets of cancer on […]
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American Politics, Articles, Columnists, Emeka Chiakwelu, NNP Columnists
Friday, February 9th, 2018
Article for publication: Poem – What is Africa…. Shithole? By Emeka Chiakwelu Ancient landscape of body, mind and spirit Noble Humanity of innovation, experience and action Were you not there in the genesis Relegated as the edged narrative in bondage Destruction of mind was deadlier than body Demolition odour of toxic hydrogen sulfide odour of […]
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Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP)
Friday, February 9th, 2018
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | February 9, 2018 – On Sunday December 4 2017, Atiku finally announced that he was re-joining the PDP. The Waziri Adamawa was one of the founders of the PDP, but also helped to bring the party down to its knees, when he led a walkout at the […]
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Africa & World Politics, Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Friday, February 2nd, 2018
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | February 2, 2018 – President Trump’s recent decision to move the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem has ruffled feathers across the world – but delighted Israel and some Christian evangelicals. Trump wanted to underline that he is a ‘doing President’. The truth […]
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American Politics, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Sunday, January 28th, 2018
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | January 28, 2018- A Mozambiquean professor at Howard University once summed it up in his own words, “Nigerians have very low morals”. Despite our low morals and its attendant sleaze and moral squalor, we long to be portrayed in the most favorable light. To remain wedded to unethical and amoral […]
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Africa & World Politics, Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Saturday, January 27th, 2018
By Arnold A. Alalibo | NNP | January 27, 2018 – The distance between Clara Town, the slum where George Opong Weah (ex-international footballer and Liberia’s president-elect) grew up in Monrovia, Liberia’s capital, is less than an hour’s drive to the presidential mansion. And yet, they are a world apart. How did Mr. Weah proceed […]
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Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Saturday, January 20th, 2018
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | January 20, 2018 – I was reasonably impressed with the overall tenor of President Buhari’s 2018 New Year’s message. Compared with some of his previous speeches, the broadcast was non-combative and represented an attempt to talk to Nigerians – instead of talking down to them as some […]
