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Articles, Columnists, Emeka Chiakwelu, Ibrahim Babangida (1985-93), NNP Columnists, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Saturday, August 4th, 2012
By Emeka Chiakwelu | NNP | August 4, 2012 – Henry Kissinger, the global geo-political icon furthered the thesis on what was called “Big Talk” and with Nigeria’s growing insecurity the joint statement by former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Ibrahim Babangida can be rated in that important category. Big talks can be consequential and when […]
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Articles, Columnists, Governors, Imo, Kenneth Uwadi, NNP Columnists, State News
Saturday, August 4th, 2012
By Kenneth Uwadi | Imo State, Nigeria | August 4, 2012 – Ralph Miliband was a key twentieth century political thinker. Ralph Miliband once said that the hottest place in hell will be reserved for those who sit on the fence in the face of great moral crisis. No one will want to go to […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Prince Charles Dickson
Saturday, August 4th, 2012
By Prince Charles Dickson | Jos, Nigeria | August 4, 2012 –I will start this weekend’s admonition by a tale told by an unknown author. It is originally called the pebble and the ripples. A man was sitting by a lake. He was throwing small pebbles into it from time to time. A young boy […]
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Akintokunbo A. Adejumo, Armed Forces, Columnists, Headlines, NNP News, Oyo, State News
Tuesday, July 31st, 2012
By New Nigerian Politics New Nigerian Politics categorically and unreservedly condemns the unprovoked brutalization of one of its columnists, Mr. Akintokunbo Adejumo, on July 22, 2012 in Ibadan, Oyo State by six miscreants of the Nigerian army attached to the PHCN building on Ring Road. This uncivilized, cowardly and sordid act visited on an innocent […]
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Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Tuesday, July 31st, 2012
By Arnold Alalibo | NNP | July 2012 – For the better part of his four years (199-2003), former President Olusegun Obasanjo toured the world wooing investors to come to Nigeria, most of whom fled the country during the tumultuous military regimes. Now, it is the turn of the current administration to woo the many […]
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Akwa Ibom, Articles, Columnists, Ini-Abasi Mboho, NNP Columnists, State News
Tuesday, July 31st, 2012
By Ini-Abasi Mboho | Uyo, Nigeria | July 31, 2012 – In recent media outings, the Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Chief Godswill Akpabio has been inundated with concerns of who his successor would be or where he would come from. Firstly, in his pre-award interview as Silverbird Man of the Year on Silverbird Television, […]
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Articles, Columnists, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), NNP Columnists, Presidency, Prince Charles Dickson
Tuesday, July 31st, 2012
By Prince Charles Dickson | Jos, Nigeria | July 31, 2012 – No matter how beautiful an ostrich egg is, if it doesn’t hatch, cannot be eaten, then it’s no good. One fundamental thing one notices that we lack in governanceand government is the word good. Many Nigerians talk and agree that goodgovernance is […]
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Akintokunbo A. Adejumo, Armed Forces, Columnists, Headlines, Oyo, State News
Sunday, July 29th, 2012
What looked like a normal day in Ibadan, Oyo State, turned out to be a nightmare in the early hours of 22nd of July 2012 at around 2.30am when about six soldiers of the Nigeria Army in uniform attached to the PHCN Capital Building at Ring Road Ibadan went berserk on an unprovoked savage […]
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Articles, Columnists, Governors, Greg Nwadike, Imo, NNP Columnists, State News
Friday, July 27th, 2012
By Greg Nwadike | NNP | July 27, 2012 – “Greg why are you against your Governor?” was a question posted on my face book page by a female old friend of mine who has long lost track of the state and possibly relies on the propaganda and sentiments churn out to online and other […]
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Articles, Columnists, Lagos, NNP Columnists, State News, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Wednesday, July 25th, 2012
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | July 26, 2012 – A major problem of Nigeria is the oil money. Oil money is extraordinary in that it does not come from any national effort, toil or sweat. It comes not from any agricultural, manufacturing, scientific or technological endeavor. It results not from our resourcefulness, innovation […]
