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Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists, State News
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2018

There are lots to be read into the recent report by the Fiscal Responsibility Commission on the debt profile of various state governments in 2016. According to the Punch of March 20 2018, which reported extensively on the report, the debt profiles of about 18 states exceeded their gross and net revenues by more […]
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Articles, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), NNP Columnists, Presidency
Saturday, March 10th, 2018

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | March 10, 2018 – We are now fully in the political season. With INEC releasing the time-table for the 2019 elections, hush-hush political discussions and permutations are likely to become more brazen. . One of the issues that have dominated the media recently is on whether Buhari […]
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Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Saturday, March 10th, 2018
By Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | March 10, 2018 – I was already researching for an article on Obasanjo following his recent successful defence of his PhD thesis at the National Open University of Nigeria at the age of over 80 when the breaking news came that the ‘oracle at Ota’ had ‘bombed’ Buhari. […]
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Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Wednesday, February 28th, 2018
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | NNP | February 28, 2018 -Many adults can remember the ‘class idiot’ in their primary and secondary school days. Virtually every class had its own ‘idiot’ – someone who was always the butt of jokes for either being an academic or social misfit or both. Ironically whenever the ‘class idiot’ […]
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Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP)
Friday, February 9th, 2018

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | February 9, 2018 – On Sunday December 4 2017, Atiku finally announced that he was re-joining the PDP. The Waziri Adamawa was one of the founders of the PDP, but also helped to bring the party down to its knees, when he led a walkout at the […]
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Africa & World Politics, Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Friday, February 2nd, 2018

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | February 2, 2018 – President Trump’s recent decision to move the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem has ruffled feathers across the world – but delighted Israel and some Christian evangelicals. Trump wanted to underline that he is a ‘doing President’. The truth […]
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Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Saturday, January 20th, 2018

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | January 20, 2018 – I was reasonably impressed with the overall tenor of President Buhari’s 2018 New Year’s message. Compared with some of his previous speeches, the broadcast was non-combative and represented an attempt to talk to Nigerians – instead of talking down to them as some […]
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Articles, EFCC Politics, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Sunday, January 7th, 2018

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | January 7, 2018 – There are gaps in the competing version of events proffered by Innocent Chukwuma, Chairman/Managing Director of Innoson Motors and the GTB Bank in their business transaction gone awry. According to Mr Chukwuma, he obtained loans from GTB which he paid off but later […]
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Articles, Chukwudi Nwokoye, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), NNP Columnists, Presidency
Wednesday, December 20th, 2017

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | Dec. 20, 2017 – Buhari’s two- day visit to the South-east is a proof – if one is still needed- that the race for 2019 has begun in all earnest and that he will – unless God decides otherwise – be a candidate in the election. The late […]
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Articles, Columnists, Ekiti, Governors, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), State News
Tuesday, November 28th, 2017

By Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | Nov. 28, 2107 – That the whistle for 2019 has long been blown is not in doubt. While many of the people in the (now rejuvenated?) PDP with rumoured presidential ambitions seem too scared to throw their hats into the ring, Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose took the […]