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After 40 years: MASSOB relocates Biafran war veterans

Posted by admin Emeka Oraetoka, National Politics, Raw Politics Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

After 40 years the Nigerian-Biafran War ended, the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has started to rehabilitate the ex-Biafran war veterans who have been languishing at the Oji River camp in Enugu State. MASSOB had embarked on a housing estate at its Okwe, Onuimo, Imo State headquarters to house […]

INEC may jeopardize elections in Ebonyi

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

By Muhammed Ajah, NNP – March 29, 2011 – There may be trouble in Ebonyi state if the Professor Attahiru Jega-led Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) fails to pay people who worked for it during the last registration exercise The INEC had contracted, among others, serving or recent youth corps members for the exercise that […]

Agonies of a Global Villager – By Anthony A. Kila

Posted by admin Anthony A. Kila, Columnists, NNP Columnists Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

By Anthony Kila, London, UK – March 29, 2011 – It is now virtually impossible for most people to finish a day without using or coming across the concept of global village. Some cite it directly whilst most refer to it. As one can imagine, these allusions come in different spices and each one of […]

President Jonathan Cannot Transform Nigeria

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency, Tochukwu Ezukanma Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

By Tochukwu Ezukanma, Lagos, Nigeria – March 29, 2011 – The central problem of the Nigeria society is lawlessness. Most of our other national problems stem from lawlessness. They are either aspects of it or its direct consequences. Entrenched corruption, electoral fraud, theft of public, sectarian violence, etc are simply different dimensions of lawlessness. Power […]

A Quiet Revolution in The Federal Civil Service

Posted by admin Akintokunbo A. Adejumo, Articles, Columnists Thursday, March 24th, 2011

By Akintokunbo A. Adejumo, London, UK – Mar. 24, 2011 – Not too long ago, a survey of some of the developing economies revealed Nigerian bureaucracy to be not just one of the least efficient and one of the most corrupt, further it was also found that working with the Nigeria’s civil servants was a […]

Youth Power for a Peaceful Revolution

Posted by admin Articles, Cliff I. Edogun, PhD, Columnists Thursday, March 24th, 2011

Cliff I. Edogun, PhD, North America Director, NIGERIA RALLY MOVEMENT <www.nigeriarally.org> cliffedo@nigeriarally.org NIGERIAN YOUTH, ARISE, UNITE AND TAKE BACK YOUR COUNTRY! Somehow, with the notable exception of sore losers like the unproductive and intellectually lazy Speaker of the Nigerian National Assembly, many skeptic Nigerians are now suddenly falling in line to accept that a democratic […]

That Nigerians May Stand Up

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD Thursday, March 24th, 2011

By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba, Yola, Nigeria – Mar. 24, 2011 – Now is not the time to train our eyes on the April 2011 national elections in Nigeria. Now is certainly not the time for politicians to indulge in costly assumptions about Nigerians, that they are eternally gullible. But now is the time to […]

Gov. Martin Elechi: father-figure or soft despot?

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe, London, UK – Mar 22, 2011 – Governor Martin Nwancho Elechi, 70, can rightly claim to be one of the fathers of Ebonyi State, having led the Ebonyi State Movement in a decade-long campaign for the creation of the state. A 1966 first class honours graduate in economics, Chief Elechi had […]

Revolution and Nigeria’s ‘economy of affection’

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists Sunday, March 20th, 2011

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe, London, UK – Mar 20, 2011 – In a very influential work, Beyond Ujamaa in Tanzania: Underdevelopment and the Uncaptured Peasantry (1980), Swedish-American political scientist Goran Hyden argued that African small cultivators prioritise their informal support networks such as familial and ethnic obligations over the pursuit of profit. For Hyden, African […]

Made in Lagos, Nigeria

Posted by admin Anthony A. Kila, Articles, Columnists Sunday, March 20th, 2011

By Anthony A. Kila , London, UK – Mar 20, 2011 – 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 country and world to seek and study model places that they can use as example to embody their […]