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Articles, Columnists, Imo, NNP Columnists, Odimegwu Onwumere, State News
Saturday, March 10th, 2018
By Odimegwu Onwumere | Rivers State, Nigeria | March 10, 2018 – Chief Rochas Okorocha, the indefatigable rambling Imo State governor has a new agenda he wants to introduce in the state since Senator Ifeanyi Araraume indicated his interest for the governorship race of the state come 2019: Hatred. The governor who believes and […]
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Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Saturday, March 10th, 2018
By Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | March 10, 2018 – I was already researching for an article on Obasanjo following his recent successful defence of his PhD thesis at the National Open University of Nigeria at the age of over 80 when the breaking news came that the ‘oracle at Ota’ had ‘bombed’ Buhari. […]
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Adele Adeniji, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Saturday, March 10th, 2018
By Adele Adeniji | Port-Harcourt, Nigeria | March 10, 2018 – The World Economic Forum for 2018 may have come and gone, but the question that will linger remains what lessons African leaders took out of it. The summit in Davos had ‘Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World’ as its theme, and the […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Nyerhovwo Tonukari, Oil Politics
Wednesday, February 28th, 2018
By Prof. Nyerhovwo Tonukari | Abraka, Delta State, Nigeria | February 28, 2018 – Price controls are regarded by economists as one of the worst forms of intervention in markets. Over the years, the history of governments implementing price controls has shown that it is a failed venture. If truth be told, no measure implemented […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Wednesday, February 28th, 2018
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | February 28, 2018 – The Nigerian ruling elite can be repulsively arrogant, disgustingly snobbish and frighteningly coldhearted. With the superciliousness only fitting of colonial masters and medieval feudal lords, they ride roughshod over the masses of Nigerians; treating them as though they deserve no respect and their lives […]
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Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Wednesday, February 28th, 2018
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | NNP | February 28, 2018 -Many adults can remember the ‘class idiot’ in their primary and secondary school days. Virtually every class had its own ‘idiot’ – someone who was always the butt of jokes for either being an academic or social misfit or both. Ironically whenever the ‘class idiot’ […]
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Headlines, Philip Amiola, Press Releases
Wednesday, February 28th, 2018
Posche Secrets provides free prosthetics for breast cancer survivors As part of activities to mark the 2018 World Cancer Day, Posche Secrets, a non-governmental organisation, has reiterated its commitment to supporting breast cancer survivors with free prosthesis. Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women globally. While it appears to be more […]
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Articles, Columnists, Headlines, NNP Columnists, Reuben Abati
Tuesday, February 27th, 2018
Karma is a bitch. Poetic justice is a bastard. Both have combined to wrong-foot the incumbent Buhari administration to make it look like a big mistake and an act of misjudgment by the Nigerian electorate. If Buhari had been disallowed from taking power in 2015, and those who advised President Goodluck Jonathan not to give a damn had their way, and Jonathan […]
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Articles, Columnists, Elections 2019, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists
Friday, February 23rd, 2018
By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | Feb. 23, 2018 – DEmocracy , as a human contrivance, is dependent on human choice among an array of options. The choice of majority of qualified electors is considered “free and fair” no matter the intrinsic quality of the choice that often manifests later in the […]
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Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Thursday, February 15th, 2018
By Arnold A. Alalibo | NNP | February 2018 – It has become expedient for all Nigerians to be subjected to mandatory periodic drug tests, given the high crime rate and the pervasive killings across the land. Honestly, how this proposition can be accomplished remains unclear at the moment. From time to time Nigeria is rudely […]
