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Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Sunday, May 10th, 2015

By Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | May 10, 2015 – I have been dismayed by three recent developments, which I believe pose very serious threat to the prevailing ‘fragile’ peace in the country. I use the word ‘fragile peace’ deliberately because even though the Armageddon predicted to follow the presidential elections of March 28 […]
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Articles, Columnists, Lloyd Ukwu, NNP Columnists, Rivers, State News
Sunday, May 10th, 2015

By Lloyd Ukwu | Washington DC, USA | May 10, 2015 – As an American educated lawyer, the use of injunctive relief in Nigeria has never seized to amaze me. In the United States of America, and certainly, in Nigeria, an injunction is a court order by which an individual is required to perform, or […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Saturday, May 9th, 2015

By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | May 9, 2015 – A onetime American president, Richard Nixon, once wrote that: power is not for everyone because it takes a unique kind of man to win the struggle for power. It takes qualities like courage, perseverance, self-confidence, and especially, the belief in one’s ability to change […]
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Abdulrazaq O. hazmat, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Thursday, April 30th, 2015

By Abdulrazaq O. Hamzat | NNP | April 30, 2015 – A friend narrated what he saw in a one of the videos of xenophobic attacks currently going on in South Africa. Here him, ‘’I saw a crowd charging at a white vehicle. In the crowd were youths,men and women and some with babies on […]
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Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, United Nations
Friday, April 24th, 2015

By Arnold A. Alalibo | NNP | April 24, 2015 – In 1948, the World Health Organisation, WHO, held its first World Health Assembly where it was decided that 7th April of every year would mark the celebration of World Health Day, WHD. Since then the date has been set aside to mark WHD globally. […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye
Tuesday, April 21st, 2015
By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye| Lagos, Nigeria | April 21, 2105 – During the governorship and states’ houses of assembly elections that took place in Nigeria last Saturday (April 11, 2015), several persons reportedly died across the nation. As I write now, a day after the elections, there are reports of raging battles in a couple of […]
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Articles, Columnists, Election 2015, Elections, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Tuesday, April 21st, 2015

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | April 21, 2015 – Given the tensions that overheated the polity during the campaigns, we are all relieved it is now all over. Thankfully the predicted Armageddon failed to happen, proving once again that perching on the precipice is the country’s comfort zone. The winners are revelling; […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Tuesday, April 21st, 2015

By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | April 21, 2015 – Years back, men of God in Nigeria, for the most part, preached hell and heaven. They urged their congregants to live godly lives, so, as to inherit eternal life, in the hereafter. These days, the pastors, generally, preach prosperity. They exhort us to empty […]
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Articles, Columnists, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), NNP Columnists, Presidency
Tuesday, April 21st, 2015

By Leonard Karshima Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | April 21, 2015 – First, let me congratulate all Nigerians for making the right choice and voting for General Buhari for the office of President of Nigeria. The choice is right because it is the most appropriate response by the electors to impunity, incompetence and corruption that […]
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Columnists, Enugu, Headlines, State News, Walter Duru
Monday, April 20th, 2015

By Walter Duru | NNP | April 20, 2015 – Since the return of Democracy in Nigeria in 1999, Enugu state, one of the five states of the South Eastern part of Nigeria has been in the firm control of the Peoples Democratic Party-PDP. In fact, Enugu is one of the major strongholds of the […]