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Friday, December 21st, 2012

By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | Dec. 21, 2012 – In the first inaugural speech of President Dwight Eisenhower of the USA on January 20, 1953, as he came to the conclusion of that speech, he said those memorable and insightful words: We must be ready to dare all for our country. […]
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Friday, December 14th, 2012

By Dr. Leoanrd K. Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | Dec. 14, 2012 – The Nigerian constitution makes provision for national and state “independent” electoral commissions to organize, undertake, and supervise all elections under their specified jurisdictions, and to compile and maintain a register of voters. The Nigerian situation is so peculiar. The electoral commissions are […]
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2012

By Leonard Karshima Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | Dec. 4, 2012 – I am not going to bore you with statistics about how the Nigerian public officers and civil servants take more than 70 per cent of Nigeria’s revenues every year; probably, you know about that already. My intention is not to make you the […]
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Friday, November 23rd, 2012

By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba / Yola, Nigeria / Nov. 23, 2012 – One of the responsibilities of a president is to inspire their citizens, to give them a reason to look forward to a better life. I watched the presidential media chat on Sunday, November 18, 2012, expecting to get answers from my president, […]
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Sunday, November 18th, 2012

By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | Nov. 18, 2012 – NOPS is an acronym for Non-Oil Producing States. The Nigerian state is so presently organized in such a way that encourages dependence of the federating states on disbursements from the federation account. But what is the primary economic activity of the Nigerian […]
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Saturday, November 10th, 2012

By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | Nov. 10, 2012 | I am thinking about a situation when crude oil prices do not exceed 40 US dollars a barrel and the demand for Nigeria’s oil drops, partly because the US (a country that imports about 40 percent of Nigeria’s crude oil) cuts down […]
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Monday, September 3rd, 2012

Read Part (I) – http://newnigerianpolitics.com/2012/09/03/the-nigerian-challenge-the-future-of-minorities-i-by-dr-leonard-k-shilgba/ A Basil Chianson Annual Lecture at Benue States University, August 25, 2012 By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | Sept. 3, 2012 – Nigeria was not designed to become a nation; she was designed for mundane materialism. Although some efforts were made in 1963 by Nigerian nationalists to […]
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Monday, September 3rd, 2012

A Basil Chianson Annual Lecture at Benue States University, August 25, 2012 By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | Sept., 3, 2012 – I have been invited to this annual Lecture of the Basil Chianson Foundation to talk on the Nigerian Challenge and the Future of the Minorities. The members of the Board […]
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Wednesday, July 4th, 2012

By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | July 4, 2012 – In my last essay on Anarchy in Nigeria, I laid the blame for insecurity in Nigeria at the door step of the political leadership in Nigeria, epitomized by President Goodluck Jonathan. The federal government of Nigeria has huge resources at its disposal, […]
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Wednesday, June 20th, 2012

By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | June 20, 2012 – I have seen that there is no leader over Nigeria, so what should the people do? The people of Israel had a similar experience thousands of years ago, when there was no leader in Israel, and so every man did what was […]