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Articles, Biafra, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Wednesday, March 8th, 2017

By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | March 8, 2017 – At a point during the civil war, my family lived at Ahiara, Mbaise. Then, Ahiara was a rural community tucked almost equidistant between two sleepy, little towns: Owerri and Umuahia. The presence of a military hospital, a detachment of Army Supply and Transport, a […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tope Bankole, Women Politics
Tuesday, March 7th, 2017

By Tope Bankole | NNP | March 7, 2017 – When one continues to forge ahead on a glorious pedestal in spite of detracting fellows who conjure snags, it becomes worthy of discussion, praise and emulation. This is the case with Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former Minister of Finance of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, whose profile […]
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Articles, Canadian Politics, Columnists, Johnson Babalola, NNP Columnists
Monday, March 6th, 2017

By Johnson Babalola | Toronto, Canada | March 6, 2017 – The messages kept coming in through emails, phones and texts. They came from different individuals with varied educational and ethnic backgrounds but with one thing in common: they were all Nigerians. They all asked about the same program: the Canadian “lottery” program. A telephone […]
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Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Saturday, March 4th, 2017

By Arnold A. Alalibo | NNP | March 4, 2017 –The world has experienced so many bloody wars that claimed several lives and ended a lot of people in grief. Almost in every country, there are stories of how someone’s greed or lust for power ended in the carnage of many innocent persons and the […]
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Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Saturday, March 4th, 2017
By Arnold A. Alalibo | NNP | March 4, 2017 – 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 […]
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Articles, Columnists, Lagos, NNP Columnists, Philip Amiola, State News
Friday, March 3rd, 2017

By Philip Amiola | NNP | March 3, 2017 – As a dewy-eyed boy growing up in the tranquil town of Ile-Ife, Osun state, I felt nothing but pity for the people who have willfully subjected themselves to the throes of living in a big city like Lagos when they could have had a much […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Friday, March 3rd, 2017

By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | March 3, 2017 – After the killings in the January and July coups and that unsurpassed butchery of Igbo civilians in northern Nigeria, there was a desperate need for peace in the country. In search of peace, the regional governors, David Ejoor, Usman Katsina, Robert Adebayo and Chukwuemeka […]
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Articles, Columnists, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), NNP Columnists, Olalekan Waheed Adigun, Presidency
Saturday, February 25th, 2017

Olalekan Waheed Adigun / NNP / Feb. 25, 2017 – On Sunday 5th February, I suffered two major disappointments. First, like most patriotic Nigerians, I supported, and planed to participate in the protests organized by Nigeria’s music legend, Innocent “TuFace” Idibia on Monday 6th February, 2017. Nigerians have suffered so much and for too long. […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Saturday, February 25th, 2017
By Tochukwu Ezukanma / Lagos, Nigeria / Feb. 25, 2017 – Long ago, a smallish female student in my class was very angry at the professor. She argued that the professor should not have marked her wrong because the question he asked was an opinion question, and that in her answer she stated her opinion. […]
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Articles, Columnists, EFCC Politics, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Friday, February 24th, 2017

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Abuja, Nigeria | Feb. 24, 2017 – This piece was motivated by two inter-related developments: the first is the furore caused by several corruption allegations against some top officials of the Buhari government and the reported directive by the President to the Attorney General of the […]