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Articles, Emmanuel Ajibulu, NNP Columnists, Ondo, State News
Sunday, November 4th, 2012
By Emmanuel Ajibulu | Abuja, Nigeria | Nov. 4, 2012 | As expected with every victory, the landslide success of Governor Olusegun Mimiko at the October 20, gubernatorial poll, triggered uncontrollable jubilation amongst the great people of Ondo State and even beyond. In the euphoria of jubilation, the number one citizen was swarmed with congratulatory […]
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Articles, Columnists, Imo, Kenneth Uwadi, NNP Columnists, State News
Sunday, November 4th, 2012
By Kenneth Uwadi | Imo, Nigeria | Nov. 4, 2012 | This is certainly not the best of times for over 15 communities of Egbema and Oguta in Imo State of Nigeria ,many of whom have been forced to flee their homes in the last four weeks due to flood and are now taking temporary […]
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Columnists, Headlines, muhammad Ajah
Sunday, November 4th, 2012
COMMUNICATION By Muhammad Ajah (From his poem collection “Man in the Mirror”) Have I read the better Than Wordsworth of Cumberland? The flowing ideas that prick Blockheads, ignorance-home And freshens savants’ anxiety to impact Through logical strings of soft words Words-worthy for simplicity Wherefore can I liken the medium Between man and knowledge The orator […]
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Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Wednesday, October 31st, 2012
By Arnold A. Alalibo | NNP | Oct. 31, 2012 – The agony in her voice was unmistakable. From her narration, the torment she experienced following the tragedy that befell her daughter was better imagined. For 40-year old Nyeduko Mbapari (not real names) a housewife based in Port Harcourt, August 15, 2012, was a day […]
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Articles, Columnists, Ikechukwu Enyiagu, NNP Columnists
Wednesday, October 31st, 2012
By Ikechukwu Enyiagu | NNP | Oct. 31, 2012 – Those who boastfully killed God’s children with starvation, deprivation and outright murder turned around, after they have made rubbish of their anti-Igbo privatization policy, and started ordaining themselves as priests of the very God whose children they joyfully killed – priests to the “Most High,” […]
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Anthony A. Kila, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Wednesday, October 31st, 2012
By Anthony A. Kila | London, UK | Oct. 31, 2012 Just last week we got news of the death of Mrs Sheila Solarin, wife of the late author, educationist and social activist, Dr Tai Solarin. Mrs Sheila Solarin was very much but not just the wife of her husband. In her own right, she […]
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Columnists, Headlines, Kunle Ojeleye
Wednesday, October 31st, 2012
The editor, Kindly allow me a small space to thank DR. KUNLE OJELEYE for his wonderful contribution on the above subject matter. In fact, he analysed the whole episode without allowing tribal sentiments to becloud his reasoning. As some of elders can honestly conclude, there was more than enough portions of blame for the various […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Prince Charles Dickson, South-East, South-West
Wednesday, October 31st, 2012
By Prince Charles Dickson | Jos, Nigeria | Oct. 31, 2012 – We grab a dog with the hands and it escapes; thereafter we beckon it with two fingers. (If both hands cannot detain a dog, two fingers from a distance will not bring it to where it escaped from.) As a public commentator, I […]
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Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Friday, October 26th, 2012
By Arnold A. Alalibo | NNP | Oct. 26, 2012 – Nigeria is like a veritable paradox. And paradox, like irony and ambiguity has always had sensational appeal to the intellectual. No wonder Nigeria has an enduring Fascination for the genuinely restless and enquiring mind. Those who fail to appreciate the disturbing proportion of the […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Rivers, State News
Thursday, October 25th, 2012
By Clarius Ugwuoha | NNP | Oct. 25, 2012 – It is very disconcerting that a kind of violence-mentality has permeated the consciousness of Nigerians. What informed the gruesome murder of four promising youths on the flimsy excuses of phone and laptop thefts, which were unsubstantiated, remains a puzzle to most social analysts in Nigerian. […]
