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Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe, London, UK – October 25, 2011 – The plan by the federal government to remove fuel subsidies, effective from January 2012, is the latest in the seemingly endless stream of controversial policies that has been flowing from, and unwittingly increasingly defining the Jonathan regime. According to the supporters of de-subsidisation, subsidising […]
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Thursday, October 13th, 2011
Dr. Jideofor Adibe, London, UK, October 13, 2011 – When Karl Maier published his book This House Has Fallen: Midnight in Nigeria (2000), I was probably among the first people given an advance copy of the book a few months before it was formally published. I was at that time the Books Review Editor of […]
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Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Monday, September 26th, 2011
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe, London, UK – Sept. 26, 2011 – I am among those often accused of being fans of Obasanjo. I have never denied that but I need to put a big qualifier to this. Every era has specific leadership qualities that are most needed to get over the challenges of its time. […]
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Monday, September 12th, 2011
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe, London, UK – Sept. 12, 2011 – The recent call by the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) for the suspension of the implementation of the Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) has mostly generated angry responses from Nigerians, who are miffed that the Governors do not seem to think of tomorrow. It should be […]
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Articles, Boko Haram, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Thursday, September 8th, 2011
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe, London, UK – Sept. 8, 2011 – The bombing of the UN Office in Abuja on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan, is one of several spates of mayhems thought to have been carried out by Boko Haram. The group, believed to have been formed in 2002 by […]
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe, London, UK – August 24, 2011- Late last year, the National Economic Council (NEC) reportedly resolved that going forward, Nigeria would no longer play ‘big brother’ to countries in trouble without getting anything in return. It also proposed that the nation’s foreign interventions and assistance would henceforth be guided by ‘national […]
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Thursday, August 18th, 2011
By Dr. Jidoeofor Adibe, London, UK – August 18, 2011 – The recent indication that the Presidency would submit a bill to the National Assembly for a single term of six years for the President and Governors has dominated the headlines in recent times. And rightly so! The thought of presenting such a bill by […]
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Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe, London, UK – August 2, 2011 – Jeffrey Sachs, respected economist and adviser to the United Nations’ Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was reported to have warned Nigeria against population explosion, saying the “current figure of 158 million could balloon to 730 million by 2100”. Sachs was further quoted as saying: “I am […]
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Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe, London, UK – July 27, 2011 – The report by the Vanguard of July 8 2011that tens of thousands of Egyptians took to the streets to defend the ‘revolution’ that toppled President Hosni Mubarak in Egypt in February 2011 was very instructive. According to the report, the protesters directed their anger […]
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Monday, July 18th, 2011
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe, London, UK – Jult 18, 2011 – In his highly regarded book, Lying With Statistics (1954) the American writer, Darrell Huff, discusses the funny business of lying with figures, telling us how intentional or unintentional errors could lead to inaccurate conclusions. Though Huff was not a statistician, his book, which he […]
