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Articles, Biafra, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Tuesday, November 28th, 2017

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | Nov. 28, 2017 – In my column of September 7 2017 entitled, ‘Nnamdi Kanu and the Redeemer Complex’, I made a few propositions about Nnamdi Kanu that now seem prophetic. I will like to quote two passages from that piece: “…a redeemer movement becomes dangerous when the […]
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Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Saturday, November 18th, 2017

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | November 18, 2017 – An article on Maina with a title such as the above is not likely to win its author any applause or friends. With Maina and ‘Mainagate’ becoming by-words for ‘fantastically corrupt’, to suggest that we should pause to listen to his own side […]
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Africa & World Politics, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Victor Ogunsola
Saturday, November 18th, 2017

By Victor Ogunsola | NNP | November 18, 2017 – A coup d’état is the least expected circumstance to unseat one of the longest-serving rulers in Africa. The ‘military takeover’ of Zimbabwe government took all by surprise, because of the strong grip Robert Mugabe has exhibited for decades. Although the military in a video broadcast […]
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Friday, November 3rd, 2017

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | November 3, 2017 – Nigerians love buzzwords – slogans that are repeated frequently enough, (and imbued with assumed values), that they begin to sound like established facts or self-evident truths. One of the favourite mantras in Nigeria today is the notion of the ‘detribalized’ Nigerian. Depending on the […]
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Articles, Biafra, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Friday, November 3rd, 2017

By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | November 3, 2017 – If you look into the mirror and see dirt on your face, you clean your face and leave the mirror alone. Even, if you choose to ignore the dirt on your face, as revealed by the mirror, you still do not bother the mirror. […]
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Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, Education, NNP Columnists
Friday, November 3rd, 2017

By Arnold A. Alalibo | November 3, 2017 | NNP | The hue and cry in opposition to the eradication of History Studies from our primary and secondary schools has eventually paid off. Its notional existence for about three decades has proved catastrophic to a nation and generations interred in ignorance or incapacity. A proclamation […]
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Articles, Biafra, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Sunday, October 15th, 2017

By Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | October 15, 2017 –My last week’s column, ‘IPOB is an insurgency, not a terrorist organization’, elicited a remarkable number of comments – kudos and criticisms as one would expect when one throws one’s hat onto the public space. Space will not permit me to reproduce some of the […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Sunday, October 15th, 2017

By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | October 15, 2017 – In one of his mournful songs, Sorrow, Tears and Blood, that tireless nonconformist, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, sang: everybody run, run, run; everybody scatter, scatter; police de come, army de come; confusion everywhere; somebody nearly died, somebody just died; ten minutes later, police don go away, […]
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American Politics, Articles, Chinedu Ogoke, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Sunday, October 8th, 2017
By Chinedu Ogoke | NNP | October 8, 2017 – [Texas] “is no longer a mere geographical space”— John O’Sullivan, 1845 ‘[I]n my early youth,’ as a kid, two books I won in a competition brought some locations in America so close that I could physically touch those places. The names Colorado and Colombia rang in my ears like booming sounds at a […]
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Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Sunday, October 8th, 2017

By Arnold A. Alalibo | NNP | October 8, 2017 – I am not surprised at the current widespread agitations for secession across the country. The gestures have always loomed in the horizon of the country long ago. Years of turmoils, claims and counter-claims of marginalization as well as vituperations, especially from stakeholders and former […]