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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Prince Charles Dickson
Wednesday, October 24th, 2012

By Prince Charles Dickson | Jos, Nigeria | Oct. 24, 2012 – Aki gbele gba ofa lailo ogun–meaning, one does not sit at home, not go to war and yet be shot with an arrow. As usual there’s been little to cheer within the last week. I was sure that my admonition was going to […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Paul I. Adujie
Wednesday, October 24th, 2012

By Paul I. Adujie | New York, NY | Oct. 24, 2012 – Despite the upsurge of Christian and Islamic fundamentalism and fanaticism in Nigeria, there is dearth of volunteerism in Nigeria. Volunteerism is profoundly absent and yet, Nigerians are said to be most religious? What then is religiosity without selflessness or being our brothers’ […]
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Articles, Columnists, Max Siollun, NNP Columnists, South-East
Wednesday, October 24th, 2012

By Max Siollun | NNP | Oct. 24, 2012 – In an article he wrote for the UK’s Guardian newspaper last week, Nigeria’s acclaimed author Chinua Achebe said that after the Biafra-Nigeria civil war, “Igbos were not and continue not to be reintegrated into Nigeria, one of the main reasons for the country’s continued backwardness.” […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Ondo, Raheem Oluwafunminiyi, State News
Wednesday, October 24th, 2012

By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi | Ibadan, Nigeria | Oct. 24, 2012 – The gubernatorial elections held recently in both Edo and Ondo states has come and gone with all stakeholders, most especially the INEC as the electoral umpire having learnt one or two things. Even as this writer is of the opinion that there is more […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Raheem Oluwafunminiyi
Sunday, October 21st, 2012
By Raheem Olwufunminiyi | Ibadan, Nigeria | Oct. 21, 2012 – It is not uncommon these days to hear how friends or people we communicate with, either face-to-face, on social and mass media or even on telephone, have suddenly changed the face of our indigenous languages. The local language we speak has often been made […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Wumi Akintide
Friday, October 19th, 2012

(Read Part 1 http://newnigerianpolitics.com/2012/10/18/awo-not-guilty-as-charged-by-prof-chinua-achebe-by-dr-wumi-akintide/ ) By Dr. Wumi Akintide | New York, NY | Oct. 19, 2012 – If the rank and file of the Igbos knew back then what they are going hear now, their perception and verdict on Awo and the Yorubas would have been different. I am sticking out my neck in […]
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Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Rivers, State News
Friday, October 19th, 2012

By Arnold A. Alalibo | NNP | Oct. 19, 2012 – Biringa Chiadika Lordson, a Theatre Arts student, Ugonna Kelechi Obusor, a Geology undergraduate, Mike Lloyd Toku, a Civil Engineering student, all year two students of the University of Port Harcourt, and Tekena Elkanah, a Certificate in Education student of the same university, knew pretty […]
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Anthony A. Kila, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Osun, State News
Thursday, October 18th, 2012
By Anthony A. Kila | London, UK | Oct. 18, 2012 – It is a common practice amongst social scientists and political philosophers that occupy themselves with the thought of how best to manage or improve their countries and world to seek and study model places that they could use as examples to embody their […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Wumi Akintide
Thursday, October 18th, 2012

PART ONE Here is why! By Dr. Wumi Akintide | New York, NY | October 18, 2012 – I have vowed never to comment on Chinua Achebe’s controversial best seller titled “There was a Country” until I have had a chance to read it from cover to cover. Having read the book, I now feel […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Prince Charles Dickson
Thursday, October 18th, 2012

By Prince Charles Dickson | Jos, Nigeria | October 18, 2012 – We the willing led by the unknowing are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much for so long with so little we are now qualified to do anything with nothing. A lot has happened in our beloved nation in […]