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Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), NNP Columnists, Presidency
Thursday, November 26th, 2015
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | November 26, 2015 – Buhari’s body language has been credited with all the promising signs in the government: we are told that electricity supply has improved, not because of any new investment in the sector but because people understand from the president’s body language that there will […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Thursday, November 26th, 2015
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | November 26, 2015 – At a church event, a then serving president said that he honored the church’s invitation because the pastor of the church routinely prayed for him and e-mailed him the transcript of the prayers. To pray for your president is magnificent, but to email him […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Olalekan Waheed Adigun
Saturday, November 14th, 2015
By Olalekan Waheed Adigun | Lagos, Nigeria | November 14, 2015 – After all the drama characterising the screening of those who are to work with President Muhammadu Buhari as ministers, the Nigerian senate in performing its constitutionally-assigned duty cleared all those nominated. Though, legally speaking, we might conclude it is a forgone conclusion about […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Saturday, November 14th, 2015
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | November 14, 2015 – Nigeria lost her innocence that day Chukwuma Nzeogwu and his band of dilettante revolutionaries, in an attempt to shoot their way into power, murdered the innocent in cold blood. It was an abhorrent act that should have offended the sensibility of every Nigerian and […]
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Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Monday, November 2nd, 2015
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | November 2, 2015 – This piece was inspired by two media reports: one was a widely reported paper presented by the Emir of Kano Muhammadu Sanusi II at the 2015 All Africa Business Leaders Awards (AABLA) for West Africa held in Lagos on 22 October 2015. In […]
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Anthony A. Kila, Articles, Columnists, Lagos, NNP Columnists, State News
Monday, November 2nd, 2015
By Anthony A. Kila | London, UK | November 2, 2015 – Reports reaching us from my Lagos is clear and unanimous: The honeymoon period between the people of Lagos state and our newly elected Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode is over. The very many comments on Facebook and Disqus, critical tweets in the cyber world […]
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Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Murtala Ramat Muhammed (1975-76), NNP Columnists, Presidency
Sunday, November 1st, 2015
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | November 2, 2015 – Not many Nigerians were excited by the list of ministerial nominees submitted by President Buhari, especially the first batch. Given the time it took the President to unveil the nominees – over four months after his inauguration – people were expecting to be […]
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Articles, Columnists, Lloyd Ukwu, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), NNP Columnists, Presidency
Sunday, November 1st, 2015
By Lloyd Ukwu | Washington DC, USA | November 2, 2015 – Prelude: The problem with dictatorship is that it usually lacks the capacity and patience to understand the meaning of the rule of law and due process. Both doctrines are often slow and therefore require patience. Dictators don’t have patience, they want it here, […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Olalekan Waheed Adigun
Sunday, November 1st, 2015
By Olalekan Waheed Adigun | Lagos, Nigeria | Nov. 2, 2015 – Some months ago, the Lekki home of Senator-elect Buruji Kashamu was barricaded by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) reportedly to arrest the “wanted drug baron” at the request of the United States Government. As soon as his house was […]
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Africa & World Politics, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Monday, October 26th, 2015
By Halima Babangida | Abuja, Nigeria | October 26, 2015 – I am a Nigerian. I am a Muslim. And I am angry… Almost a month has elapsed since the calamitous stampede at the Hajj in Mecca and we are no closer to any concrete answers about what really happened. The Nigerian death toll in the […]
