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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Saturday, May 9th, 2015

By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | May 9, 2015 – A onetime American president, Richard Nixon, once wrote that: power is not for everyone because it takes a unique kind of man to win the struggle for power. It takes qualities like courage, perseverance, self-confidence, and especially, the belief in one’s ability to change […]
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Abdulrazaq O. hazmat, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Thursday, April 30th, 2015

By Abdulrazaq O. Hamzat | NNP | April 30, 2015 – A friend narrated what he saw in a one of the videos of xenophobic attacks currently going on in South Africa. Here him, ‘’I saw a crowd charging at a white vehicle. In the crowd were youths,men and women and some with babies on […]
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Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, United Nations
Friday, April 24th, 2015

By Arnold A. Alalibo | NNP | April 24, 2015 – In 1948, the World Health Organisation, WHO, held its first World Health Assembly where it was decided that 7th April of every year would mark the celebration of World Health Day, WHD. Since then the date has been set aside to mark WHD globally. […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye
Tuesday, April 21st, 2015
By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye| Lagos, Nigeria | April 21, 2105 – During the governorship and states’ houses of assembly elections that took place in Nigeria last Saturday (April 11, 2015), several persons reportedly died across the nation. As I write now, a day after the elections, there are reports of raging battles in a couple of […]
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Articles, Columnists, Election 2015, Elections, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Tuesday, April 21st, 2015

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | April 21, 2015 – Given the tensions that overheated the polity during the campaigns, we are all relieved it is now all over. Thankfully the predicted Armageddon failed to happen, proving once again that perching on the precipice is the country’s comfort zone. The winners are revelling; […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Tuesday, April 21st, 2015

By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | April 21, 2015 – Years back, men of God in Nigeria, for the most part, preached hell and heaven. They urged their congregants to live godly lives, so, as to inherit eternal life, in the hereafter. These days, the pastors, generally, preach prosperity. They exhort us to empty […]
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Articles, Columnists, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), NNP Columnists, Presidency
Tuesday, April 21st, 2015

By Leonard Karshima Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | April 21, 2015 – First, let me congratulate all Nigerians for making the right choice and voting for General Buhari for the office of President of Nigeria. The choice is right because it is the most appropriate response by the electors to impunity, incompetence and corruption that […]
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American Politics, Articles, Columnists, John Egbeazien Oshodi, NNP Columnists
Monday, April 20th, 2015

By Dr. John E. Oshodi | NNP | April 20, 2015 – Nigerians have not stopped celebrating since March 2015 which marked the point when the Jonathan Administration, where trust was very hard to establish, where the leadership behaved as if Nigeria was their personal kitchen, and where the use of political power through the […]
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Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), NNP Columnists, Presidency, South-East
Saturday, April 18th, 2015

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | April 18, 2015 – Retired Muhammadu Buhari’s recent victory at the polls has given aggressive vent to the aphorism that success has many fathers while failure is an orphan. Many APC partisans are regaling in ‘I told you so’, while several merchants of fortune scamper for media […]
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Articles, Columnists, Election 2015, Elections, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), NNP Columnists, Presidency, Tochukwu Ezukanma, Top Stories
Monday, April 13th, 2015
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | April 13, 2015 – Tears dripped from my eyes as I watched President Goodluck Jonathan’s nationally televised address. His speech was short but momentous. He conceded defeat, and accepted the electoral victory of his political opponent, Mohammadu Buhari. In the lawless and unprincipled milieu of Nigerian politics, that […]