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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Odimegwu Onwumere
Sunday, February 7th, 2016
By Odimegwu Onwumere / Rivers, Nigeria / Feb. 7, 2016 – Measles still remains a foremost source of morbidity and mortality in Nigerian children, regardless-of being vaccine-avertable. The precarious scenery of measles has made it to garner such headlines like, “Nigeria to immunise 35 million children against measles – Official, October 3, 2013”, “Measles, child […]
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Articles, Columnists, Election 2015, Elections, NNP Columnists, Olalekan Waheed Adigun, State News
Saturday, February 6th, 2016
By Olalekan Waheed Adigun | Lagos, Nigeria | Feb. 6, 2016 – Depending on one’s political persuasions, many stayed glued to their radio or television stations in anticipation of the declaration of the much-anticipated election result in Kogi on November, 21. The social media was awash with all manner of projections about who the eventual […]
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Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Friday, February 5th, 2016
Dr. Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | Feb. 5, 2016 – This reflection was inspired by a report in the Daily Post of January 11 2016 where Pastor Tunde Bakare, founder of the Latter Rain Assembly was reported as urging President Muhammadu Buhari to implement the recommendations of the 2014 National Conference. According to the […]
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Articles, Columnists, Emeka Oraetoka, NNP Columnists
Friday, February 5th, 2016
By Emeka Oraetoka | Abuja, Nigeria | Feb. 5, 2016 – There is no doubt that President Muhammadu Buhari[PMB]–led administration is desirous of generating employment for the teeming unemployed youths in Nigeria through agriculture. Two months after the appointment of ministers, it appears the minister is still fine-tuning strategy on how to attract Nigerian youths […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Friday, February 5th, 2016
By Tochukwu Ezukanma / Lagos, Nigeria / Feb. 5, 2016 –Haunted by the systematic atrocities of war, the American Civil War hero, General William Sherman, in a speech, shouted, “I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks […]
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Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Sunday, January 31st, 2016
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | January 31, 2016 – The Emir of Kano HRH Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II was recently quoted as warning that “Nigeria may experience a repeat of the January 15 1966 military coup if some parts of the country continue in violence and disunity.” The revered Emir reportedly made […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Odimegwu Onwumere
Monday, January 25th, 2016
By Odimegwu Onwumere / NNP / January 25, 2016 – In the labour front something called jobs cut is fetching primacy. It is becoming a phenomenon across the world – from America to Africa and from the United Kingdom to United Arab Emirate – the story is the same. It is hitting Nigeria dangerously due […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Odimegwu Onwumere
Friday, January 22nd, 2016
Measles: A foremost source of morbidity and mortality By Odimegwu Onwumere / NNP / January 22, 2016 – Measles still remains a foremost source of morbidity and mortality in Nigerian children, regardless-of being vaccine-avertable. The precarious scenery of measles has made it to garner such headlines like, “Nigeria to immunise 35 million children against measles – […]
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Articles, Columnists, Lagos, NNP Columnists, Raheem Oluwafunminiyi, State News
Saturday, January 16th, 2016
By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi | Ibadan, Nigeria | January 16, 2016 – No doubt, the 2015 election in Nigeria will remain one of the most discussed political events in many years to come. This is because a lot of surprises sprang up in its wake and thereafter. Nobody would forget in a hurry the telephone conversation […]
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Columnists, Headlines, Reuben Abati
Sunday, January 10th, 2016
by Dr. Reuben Abati I was on my way back from Botswana, after attending a conference organized by the Africa Leadership Forum (ALF). This was sometime in the 90s, on that same trip was Professor Tekena Tamuno, the eminent historian of blessed memory. We boarded an Air Afrique flight from Johannesburg to Abidjan, where we […]
