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Articles, Columnists, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists
Tuesday, May 26th, 2015

Read Part One By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | May 26, 2015 – In the first of this series, I addressed issues such as accreditation and management of tertiary education in Nigeria. I now turn my attention to funding of education and federal support to states for sub-tertiary education. FUNDING HIGHER EDUCATION […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Raw Politics, Uwa Eghomeka, Women Politics
Tuesday, May 26th, 2015

By Uwa Eghomeka | Benin City, Nigeria | May 26, 2015 – We live in an unusual world – a world where vices are seen as virtues, where ignorance is strength, freedom is slavery and war is peace. (Apologies to George Orwell). I recall that when I was growing up, my mother often told me […]
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Anthony A. Kila, Articles, Columnists, Legislature, NNP Columnists, Senate
Sunday, May 24th, 2015

By Anthony A. Kila | London, UK | May 24, 2015 – There is a fascinating metamorphosis going on amongst Nigerian elites that is worth of paying attention to. Like in the biological process wherein animals physically develop a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in their body structure through cell growth and differentiation, some Nigerian […]
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All Peoples' Congress (APC), Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Party Politics, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Friday, May 15th, 2015

By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | May 15, 2015 – In addition to its defeat in the presidential election, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lost its dominance in the Senate and the House of Representatives and control of some time-honored PDP states like Plateau, Niger and Benue. Following these losses, the party is in […]
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All Peoples' Congress (APC), Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Party Politics, Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye
Thursday, May 14th, 2015

By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye | Lagos, Nigeria | May 14, 2015 – Recently, the Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Mr. John Oyegun, was quoted as saying that he was “sad” that his party could not produce a lawmaker from the South East to be elected as senate president or speaker of the House of […]
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Articles, Columnists, Ekiti, NNP Columnists, Olalekan Waheed Adigun, State News
Wednesday, May 13th, 2015

By Olalekan Waheed ADIGUN | NNP | May 13, 2015 – Sometimes in November, 2014 I wrote under the title OUR GOVERNOR HAS GONE MAD AGAIN on my facebook wall. The title was inspired by Ola Rotimi’s classic OUR HUSBAND HAS GONE MAD AGAIN, whose central character Col. Ladele, an impulsive, irrational soldier-turned politician was. […]
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Africa & World Politics, Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Monday, May 11th, 2015

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | May 11, 2015 – The wave of attacks against foreigners in South Africa, mostly migrants from other African countries, has attracted justified condemnation from around the world. Seven lives have been lost in the orgy of violence, with soldiers now (rather belatedly) deployed to some of the […]
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Articles, Columnists, Education, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists
Monday, May 11th, 2015

By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | May 11, 2015 – Public response to and interest in my recent article titled On President Buhari and Corruption in Nigerias Education Sector, (and other similar titles) compelled me to engage in this essay on the education sector in Nigeria, which I have decided to […]
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Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Sunday, May 10th, 2015

By Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | May 10, 2015 – I have been dismayed by three recent developments, which I believe pose very serious threat to the prevailing ‘fragile’ peace in the country. I use the word ‘fragile peace’ deliberately because even though the Armageddon predicted to follow the presidential elections of March 28 […]
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Articles, Columnists, Lloyd Ukwu, NNP Columnists, Rivers, State News
Sunday, May 10th, 2015

By Lloyd Ukwu | Washington DC, USA | May 10, 2015 – As an American educated lawyer, the use of injunctive relief in Nigeria has never seized to amaze me. In the United States of America, and certainly, in Nigeria, an injunction is a court order by which an individual is required to perform, or […]