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Articles, Columnists, COVID-19, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Saturday, April 18th, 2020

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | April 18, 2020 – COVID-19, a strain of Coronavirus, which the World Health Organisation declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020, has been slow to take root in Africa but the number of cases is now growing. With about 1,500 people testing positive globally as of Wednesday […]
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Articles, CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria), Columnists, Emmanuel Ajibulu, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Friday, April 3rd, 2020

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | April 3, 2020 – The dethronement of Alhaji Muhammad Sanusi as the 14th Emir of Kano did not take many people by surprise. The surprising thing for some people is that he lasted as long as he did on the throne. In fact there were rumours that […]
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Saturday, March 21st, 2020

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | March 21, 2020 – Has the world as we know it changed inexorably because of a virus that was first identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019? This is the big question many people are grappling with as the Coronavirus epidemic sweeps through the world, with more than […]
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Africa & World Politics, Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Saturday, March 7th, 2020

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | March 7, 2020 – The current debate over the Buhari government’s request to borrow additional $30bn (a substantial portion of which is likely to come from China), has revived debates not just about debt overhang in the country but also about whether China is using debt as a […]
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Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists, Presidency
Saturday, January 25th, 2020

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | January 25, 2020 – This is not the best of times for the Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo. Since the beginning of Buhari’s second term in office, there has been speculations on whether the VP would continue to enjoy the sort of legroom he was allowed in […]
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Sunday, January 12th, 2020

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | January 12, 2020 – In this reflection I am using the phrase welcoming a ‘new decade’ very cautiously as I am mindful of the controversy over whether January 1 2020 should be regarded as the beginning of a new decade or the end of the last decade. […]
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Sunday, December 22nd, 2019

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | December 22, 2019 – Obasanjo’s recent visit to the Governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El Rufai, has dominated the media the past one week. During the visit, the former President reportedly reflected on the Kaduna state governor’s spat with the Senate when he was Federal Capital Territory […]
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Thursday, December 12th, 2019

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria| December 12, 2019 – I was quite pleased that the controversial International Conference on Witchcraft at the University of Nigeria, my alma mater, held as scheduled, despite opposition from right-wing Christian bodies and other busy-bodies. The conference, organised by the Prof. B.I.C Ijomah Centre for Policy Studies and […]
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Saturday, September 28th, 2019

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | September 28, 2019 – Controversy has trailed the recent decision by the Federal Government to proscribe and designate the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) – also known as the Shiites- as a terrorist organisation. The Federal Government had filed an ex parte application before the court […]
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Thursday, September 19th, 2019

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa | Nigeria – The recent news that the United States’ Department of Justice has indicted 80 individuals, 78 of whom are Nigerians, (mostly Igbo), for email scam and money laundering scheme of about $3bn, has expectedly led to the ethnicization of the issue. I had a very light-hearted chat on […]