Messages of Ahiara – By Tochukwu Ezukanma

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 […]

Okonjo-Iweala Still “In Office” – By Tope Bankole

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 […]

Be Warned, Canada Has No “Visa Lottery Program.”

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 […]

Conflicts: Employing Non-Violent Approach – By Arnold A. Alalibo

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 […]

The Economics of Population – By Arnold A. Alalibo

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 […]

Lagos and the Open Graves No One is Talking About – By Philip Amiola

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 […]

Misinformation that Continues to Poison our Minds – by Tochukwu Ezukanma

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 […]

Buhari, Death Rumours & The Scuttled Protests – By Olalekan Waheed Adigun

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. […]

Barbarians in the citadels of knowledge – By Tochukwu Ezukanma

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. […]

Time to scrap the EFCC – By Dr. Jideofor Adibe

        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 […]

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