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Articles, Columnists, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), NNP Columnists, P, Presidency
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
By Phil Tam-Al Alalibo – NNP – April 23, 2011 – Clearly, the people have spoken and Dr. Goodluck Ebelemi Jonathan has emerged as president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. This marks the first time a southerner of Ijaw extraction has been voted into the office of the presidency. While this victory is commendable […]
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Articles, Columnists, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), NNP Columnists, Presidency, Reuben Abati
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
Leadership is what will make Nigeria, it is also what will break it; leadership failure is precisely what is responsible for the crisis that the country is now witnessing after a Presidential election that was adjudged successful by local and international observers and which has received high praise from the United States, Germany, France, Britain, […]
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Articles, Columnists, muhammad Ajah, NNP Columnists
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
By Muhammad Ajah, Abuja, Nigeria, April 2011 – If the Igbo race thinks that a Nigerian president of an Igbo extraction can come through by mere promises made by the present presidential candidates of the major political parties for the April 2011 general elections, they may just continue in their hallucinations of decades. I am […]
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Anthony A. Kila, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
By Anthony A. Kila, London, UK – April 21, 2011 – Before and beyond the obvious irritating and expensive ridicule that Nigerians at home and abroad were exposed to last week, thanks to the postponement of the parliamentary elections (or NASS as they say in the Nigerian parlance), it should now be clear to all […]
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Articles, Cajetan Dike, Columnists, Imo, NNP Columnists
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
By Cajetan Dike, NNP – April 21, 2011 – Following the violence visited on Imo State fortnight ago by Owelle Anayo Rochas Okorocha, the APGA governorship candidate, there are fears that the pseudo philanthropist might after all not be the messiah Imo people have been waiting for. Apart from his proclivity towards violence and bare […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Sunny Chris Okenwa
Wednesday, April 20th, 2011
BY Sunny Chris Okenwa, Abidjan, Ivory Coast – April 20, 2011 – When the Belgian sociologist, Benoît Scheuer, came to Cote d’Ivoire in the late 90’s during the presidency of Henry Konan Bedie he spent some weeks (nay months) in Abidjan and elsewhere in the hinterland and came out with a block-burster documentary with the […]
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Articles, Columnists, Elvis J. Agukwe, Imo, NNP Columnists, State News
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
By Elvis .J. Agukwe, Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria – April 19, 2011 – As a member of the Catholic Church and a communicant at that, I have often been fascinated by the transformational, regenerative and cathartic effect of the sacrament of Eucharist. Preparation for the sacrament defines the essence of Catholicism for it is here […]
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Adewale T. Akande, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
By Adewale T Akande, Barcelona, Spain, April 19, 2011 – The Nigerian most famous and respectable novelist, poet, professor and critic, Chinua Achebe rightly said in his book “The Trouble with Nigeria” that “It is totally false to suggest, as we are apt to do, that Nigerians are fundamentally different from any other people in the […]
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Columnists, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba, Yola, Nigria – April 19, 2011 – To those who still believe in the continuance of the mythical North—the One North, One Destiny, I report the demise of the myth and the end of its fruits to the singular beneficiaries. Some have spoken in the past about the impossibility of […]
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Columnists, NNP Columnists, Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye
Sunday, April 17th, 2011
By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye, Lagos, Nigeria – April 17, 2011 – It is quite possible that before now not many people have taken time to seriously consider it, but there is no doubt that governing a state in Nigeria has over the years been reduced to one of the most unduly simplified jobs in town, which […]
