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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Odimegwu Onwumere
Tuesday, August 30th, 2016
By Odimegwu Onwumere | Rivers, Nigeria | August 30, 2016 – Optimism has been raised for the microscopic number of employed, gigantic number of unemployed and underemployed Nigerians by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige (Onwa) on August 16 2016; he made public a new national policy on labour migration. The policy if […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Odimegwu Onwumere
Tuesday, August 30th, 2016
By Odimegwu Onwumere | NNP | August 30, 2016 – I started thinking again recently of my youthful days after reading Forbes edition of July 20, 2016 in which a 28-Year-Old John Crestani was said to have read the bible and the Bhagavad Gita (Hindu scripture) for years to make money, but his turning-point came […]
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Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Rivers, State News
Sunday, August 14th, 2016
By Arnold A. Alalibo | NNP | August 14, 2016 – Barring unforeseen circumstances, residents of Port Harcourt will soon witness the return of the city to its former ‘Garden City’ status. Before his exit from office, the immediate past caretaker committee chairman of the Port Harcourt Local Government Council, Mr. Samuel Soni Ejekwu, began […]
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Articles, Columnists, David Leffler, John Theobald, NNP Columnists
Sunday, August 14th, 2016
IDT: A POWERFUL, PROVEN TOOL FOR POLICE AND MILITARY By John Theobald and Dr. David Leffler Whatever one’s view of law enforcement and military personnel, certainly we can agree that these are highly stressful times for these professions. Therefore it is important to know that a powerful scientifically-validated, cost-effective stress reduction tool is […]
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Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Sunday, August 14th, 2016
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | August 14, 2016 – How has Vice President Yemi Osibanjo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and former Professor of Law at the University of Lagos fared as an intellectual in politics? The role of intellectuals in politics is often a controversial one. Do intellectuals do well in […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Olalekan Waheed Adigun
Sunday, August 14th, 2016
By Olalekan Waheed Adigun | Lagos, Nigeria | August 14, 2016 – While preparing for the Universities Matriculations Examinations (UME) (now known as the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations) in 2005, I came across one new “fact” reading the book A Course Text on Government by Oghenekaro Ogbinaka. I learnt that the word “State” can be […]
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Abiodun Ladepo, Boko Haram, Ebonyi, Headlines, National Politics, Nigerian Police, State News
Wednesday, August 10th, 2016
By Peter Okutu ABAKALIKI—Three police officers indicted in the stripping and battering of a 15-year-old Uzoamaka Chukwu in Umunaga Uburu, Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, are currently undergoing orderly room trial. Uzoamaka was stripped naked and beaten with cables and canes by some persons in the area with the pictures and video of […]
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Articles, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Wednesday, July 27th, 2016
By Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | July 27, 2016 – This reflection is a continuation of my last week’s piece on how to re-engineer our politics to make it less anarchic and more oriented towards nation-building. As I argued, there is pervasive fear that the ethnic group/region that wins power at the centre will use […]
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Articles, Columnists, Legislature, NNP Columnists, Odimegwu Onwumere, Senate, Women Politics
Wednesday, July 27th, 2016
By Odimegwu Onwumere | Rivers State, Nigeria | July 26, 2016 – Senator Dino Melaye, the lawmaker representing Kogi West senatorial district and Senator Oluremi Tinubu, the Senator representing Lagos Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly, on Tuesday, the 12th of July, 2016, during an executive meeting, started a feud that was brought to the […]
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Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, Education, NNP Columnists
Monday, July 25th, 2016
By Arnold A. Alalibo | NPP | July 25, 2016 – Kevin Rudd says, “Education is both a tool of social justice as well as a fundamental driver of economic development.” There is no gainsaying that education is vital to the sustenance of culture and democratic principles. It defines the individual and determines his worth. […]
