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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Oil Politics, Olayiwola Ajileye (Dr.)
Monday, January 9th, 2012
By Dr Olayiwola Ajileye, Champions for Nigeria Organisation, Jan. 9, 2012- Nigeria is a nation blessed with abundant natural resources, the major one being about 35.5 billion barrels of Oil with potential for more deep offshore production and 180 trillion cubic meters of gas reserves according to the United State Energy Information Administration (EIA). This […]
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Articles, Columnists, Leburah Ganago, NNP Columnists, Oil Politics
Monday, January 9th, 2012
By Leburah Ganago, Atlanta, USA – Jan. 9, 2012 – Oil subsidy removal has become a recurring decimal in the economic or is it political, equation of successive Nigerian administrations; military or civilian. It is a bitter pill recklessly forced down the throat of Nigerians, every now and then, by their usually dubious rulers. In […]
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Articles, Columnists, Frisky Larr, NNP Columnists
Monday, January 9th, 2012
By Frisky Larr, NNP, Jan. 9, 2012 – Recent happenings in Nigeria spontaneously reminded me of lessons in Political Science as a Freshman in a Turkish University. A Beginner so to speak! The subject was “The Philosophies and History of Politics”. My Professor repeated in several different words to us as Beginners of University studies […]
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Articles, Columnists, Ikechukwu Enyiagu, NNP Columnists, South-East
Monday, January 9th, 2012
By Ikechukwu Enyiagu, NNP, Jan. 8, 2012 – This is no time for riddles and proverbs; every child must be made to hear and understand. These moments call for clarity and decisiveness-clarity in communication and understanding. A political statement in Nigeria is as worthless as a gold ring in a pig’s snout. While Ndigbo believes […]
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Articles, Columnists, Femi Fani-Kayode, NNP Columnists, Women Politics
Sunday, January 8th, 2012
By Femi Fani-Kayode, NNP, Jan. 8, 2012 – Yesterday (4th of Jan. 2012) during a specially convened meeting of the Federal Executive Council of the Goodluck Jonathan administration Mrs. Ngozie Okonjo-Iweala, my former cabinet colleague and good friend, threatened to resign from her position as Finance Minister and de-facto Prime Minister and go back to […]
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Adewale T. Akande, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Sunday, January 8th, 2012
By Adewale T. Akande, Barcelona, Spain, Jan. 6, 2012 – My dear countrymen and women, I am using this urgent and important open letter to congratulate all Nigerians from all ethnic and religious individuals, groups, associations, and communities living outside the shore of Nigeria for a Happy New Year, 2012. I pray that this new […]
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Boko Haram, Haruna Manu Isah, Headlines
Saturday, January 7th, 2012
Share ABOUT 20 people were killed, on Friday, by masked gunmen, believed to be members of the Boko Haram sect, who targeted a town hall in Mubi, Adamawa State. Residents in the town said those killed were Igbo. They had been meeting to organise how to transport the body of a kinsman shot dead by […]
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Anambra, Articles, Columnists, Emeka Chiakwelu, NNP Columnists, State News
Friday, January 6th, 2012
By Emeka Chiakwelu, NNP- Jan. 6, 2012 – Governor Obi of Anambra State and his administration deserves unequivocal applaud on transferring 1,040 schools back to the original owners. It is important to highlight such an important and affirmative move by Obi’s administration to show that we are all committed to the truth and a better […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Odenigbo Chidi Anyaeche, South-East
Friday, January 6th, 2012
By Odenigbo Chidi Anyaeche, London, UK – Jan. 6. 2012 – Killing of Igbo’s in Nigeria by their fellow Nigerians of Northern Nigerian Muslim extraction seems to be a yearly ritual. But the recent killings by a radical Islamic sect called Boko Haram (Western education is meaningless) that operates mostly from North East Nigeria that […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Prince Charles Dickson
Friday, January 6th, 2012
By Prince Charles Dickson, Jos, Nigeria – Jan. 6, 2012 – “If figures of what we spend are published to the Nigerian people, riots will erupt all over the country” Adams Oshiomole The Federal Government is to fund a quarter of its 2012 budget proposal with external and domestic loans. A total of $1.712 billion […]
