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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Prince Charles Dickson
Monday, September 3rd, 2012
By Prince Charles Dickson | Jos, Nigeria | Sept. 3, 2012 – In recent times the Nigerian polity has continued in its usual stride, with both leadership and the led. Mere cosmetic measures, short termed solutions to long term problems designed with a view to averting stampedes and convulsions. Right from the dawn of the […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Raheem Oluwafunminiyi
Monday, September 3rd, 2012

By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi | Ibadan, Nigeria | Sept. 3, 2012 – This writer is angry not because there is a problem with Nigeria (apologies to Chinua Achebe), not because we now have a clueless and myopic administration, which according to one of its aides, is the most cursed in the world, not because Boko Haram […]
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Articles, Columnists, Emeka Chiakwelu, NNP Columnists
Monday, September 3rd, 2012

By Emeka Chiakwelu | NNP | Sept. 3, 2012 – Zenon Petroleum and Gas needs to make strategic move into oil exploration and petroleum refinery Femi Otedola has taken Zenon Petroleum and Gas to its greater heights in the area of petroleum products marketing and distribution. As the president and chief executive officer, he has […]
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Articles, Columnists, Governors, Imo, Kenneth Uwadi, NNP Columnists, State News
Monday, September 3rd, 2012

Read Part I – http://newnigerianpolitics.com/2012/08/04/gov-okorocha-and-the-lga-cash-pot-by-kenneth-uwadi/ Read Part II – http://newnigerianpolitics.com/2012/08/17/gov-okorocha-the-lga-cash-pot-part-ii/ Kenneth Uwadi | Imo State, Nigeria | Sept. 3, 2012 – Imo State is one of the 36 States of Nigeria with Owerri as its capital and largest city. The State came into existence in 1976 along with other new States created under […]
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Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Friday, August 31st, 2012

Dr. Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | August 31, 2012 – Am I alone in noticing how Nigerians seem to enjoy profiling and pouring invectives on one another whenever they congregate in their in-group to discuss the Nigerian condition? And if you think this is only a past-time of the uneducated and those who believe […]
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Articles, Columnists, Kunle Ojeleye, NNP Columnists
Tuesday, August 28th, 2012

By Dr. Kunle Ojeleye | Calgary, AB, Canada | August 29, 2012 – If it is indeed true that Professor Barth Nnaji has resigned as the Minister for Power in Nigeria, he is a man of honour and integrity. Based on the report from ThisDay (www.thisdaylive.com/articles/privatisation-bids-cancelled-over-firms-linked-to-nnaji/123388/), if the man indeed declared his indirect (and/or direct) […]
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Articles, Columnists, David A. Ehoro, NNP Columnists, Oil Politics
Saturday, August 25th, 2012

By Dr. David A. Ehoro | Columbus, Ohio | August 25, 2012 – During the Vietnam War – a Cold War era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975 – many Americans appeared thorn between the patriotic impulse of supporting […]
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American Politics, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Monday, August 20th, 2012

By Phil Tam-Al Alalibo | NNP | August 21, 2012 – The spirit of Owambe is pervasive among Nigerians well ingrained in their socio-psychological awareness no matter where they are domiciled on God’s green planet. Even when the federal government of Nigeria outlawed the mutilation of the currency indirectly banning the practice of Owambe, I […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Prince Charles Dickson, Soccer, Sports, Track & Field
Monday, August 20th, 2012

By Prince Charles Dickson | Jos, Nigeria | August 20, 2012 – “A good fortune may forebode a bad luck, which may in turn disguise a good fortune…” – Anonymous. In local parlance there is a word called ‘wash’. It actually has a relationship with some of its original dictionary meaning, especially in informal terms. […]
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Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Sunday, August 19th, 2012

By Arnold A. Alalibo | NNP | August 19, 2012 – In spite of the introduction of the automated teller machine (ATM), as a way of decongesting banking halls, long queues are still experienced in most Nigerian banks. The predicament of bank customers at the various banks is indeed irritating. Each time I have to […]