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Articles, Columnists, John Egbeazien Oshodi, Nigerian Police, NNP Columnists
Wednesday, March 27th, 2013
By John Egbeazien Oshodi, Ph.D. | NNP | March 27, 2013 – Mr. IGP, remember the Emergency declaration on Police training Colleges? Mr. Mohammed Dahiru Abubakar after being appointed by President Jonathan as the Acting Inspector General of Police made an open declaration about police training institutions in January of 2012. At which time he […]
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Articles, Bayelsa, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists, State News
Wednesday, March 27th, 2013
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | March 27, 2013 – The recent presidential pardon of Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha, Governor of Bayelsa State, from 29 May 1999 to 9 December 2005, has generated an understandable sense of outrage across the country. Alamieyeseigha is credited with plucking President Jonathan from total political obscurity and […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Thursday, March 21st, 2013
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | March 21, 2013 – The German theologian, Prof. Motlman, rightly stated that “it is not the idealistic concept of none violence that is in consonant with the Gospel, but a responsible action of love”. It is a misunderstanding of the Christian Gospel of nonviolence for a man to […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Philip Amiola, Religion
Monday, March 18th, 2013
By Philip Amiola / Lagos, Nigeria / March 18, 2013 – I have observed with strong feelings of embarrassment, the degree to which people can be so enslaved by religion that they would go to great lengths to defend their religious views. People have been known to mutilate their bodies and engage in other forms […]
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Anthony A. Kila, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Saturday, March 16th, 2013
By Anthony A. Kilauea / London, UK / March 16, 2013 The title of this piece could have well been: Northern control of oil bloc: daddy not our brothers cornered our meat. Elsewhere a title of such would be unfamiliar if not completely surreal to an average citizen for it is not common for people […]
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Akintokunbo A. Adejumo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Friday, March 15th, 2013
By Akintokunbo Adejumo / Ibadan, Nigeria / Mach, 15, 2013 – Many Nigerians were naturally shocked, concerned and apprehensive at the news on 07 March 2013 that the (notorious, inept and ineffective) Nigerian House of Representatives is planning to include immunity for federal legislators in the on-going amendment of the 1999 constitution, with the bills […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Friday, March 8th, 2013
By Tochukwu Ezukanma / Lagos, Nigeria / March 8, 2013 – One of the many things that that tireless nonconformist, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, did for Nigerian music was to change it from merely a medium for praising and ingratiating the rich and mouthing romantic platitudes to a medium for mass enlightenment and crusading against bad […]
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Articles, Boko Haram, Columnists, Frisky Larr, Headlines, NNP Columnists
Wednesday, March 6th, 2013
By Frisky Larr / NNP / March 7, 2013Is Boko Haram just a Label? What Game is playing out here? Nigerian readers will need no recap to understand what Boko Haram stands for. It is a phenomenon that trails the daily lives of individuals like a psychological shadow stretching over the entire country from Maiduguri. […]
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Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Sunday, March 3rd, 2013
By Arnold A. Alalibo / NNP / March 4, 2013 – Mrs Obiageli Ezekwesili, former Vice President of the World Bank and ex-Minister of Solid Minerals and Education, was in the news recently over her challenge to the Federal Government to account for N45 billion in foreign reserve account and another N22 billion in the […]
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Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists, Party Politics
Sunday, March 3rd, 2013
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe / London, UK / March 4, 2013 – The recent announcement by the leading opposing parties that they were dissolving their parties in favour of a mega party, the All Progressive Congress (APC) took Nigerians by surprise. True, Nigerians were not unaware of its coming but very few expected that it […]
