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Articles, Columnists, Imo, NNP Columnists, State News, Walter Duru
Sunday, September 1st, 2013

By Walter Duru | NNP | Sept. 1, 2013 – Last week, a hatchet writer took virtual space on some internet-based newspapers to publish what has been described by some Imo citizens as a concocted and incoherent report titled “How Imo First Lady Turned Pet Project into Billon Naira Personal Business Venture.” The writer […]
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Abiodun Ladepo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Sunday, September 1st, 2013

By Abiodun Ladepo | Los Angeles, USA | Sept. 1, 2013 – DISCLAIMER: I am no fan of Femi Fani-Kayodes. I could never hold brief for a man reputed to be a serial wife-beater (hey, just rumors
I have no proof about that). I also could never carry the can for a man still being prosecuted […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Sunday, September 1st, 2013

By Ogundijo Emmanuel Omotayo | NNP | September 1, 2013 – Chinua Achebe once noted in one of his powerful pieces that “Nigeria is a child, gifted, enormously talented, prodigiously endowed and incredibly wayward”. In the same piece, he asserted “Being a Nigerian is abysmally frustrating and unbelievably exciting”. The question now is: Is Nigeria […]
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Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, Education, NNP Columnists
Tuesday, August 27th, 2013

By Arnold A. Alalibo | NNP | August 27, 2013 – The Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities, ASUU, took the nation by storm recently when it declared an indefinite strike action to press home the implementation of an agreement it reached with the federal government in 2009 and a Memorandum of Understanding, MOU, it […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Omolara Williams, Raw Politics, Women Politics
Tuesday, August 27th, 2013

By Omolara Williams | NNP | August 27, 2013 – In the dark old days when the military dominated Nigeria’s political scene, the phenomenon of brain drain became crystallised in our national consciousness, as our best brains in all walks of life embarked on an exodus to nations in different parts of the world, in […]
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Articles, Chika Ezeanya PhD, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Tuesday, August 27th, 2013

By Chika Ezeanya | NNP | August 27, 2013 – One of the first indicators of a sufficiently educated mind is the unwillingness to resort to stereotypes in the understanding and analysis of contending issues of the day. True learning entails the intentional broadening of one’s mental horizon to eschew lumping human beings – with […]
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Columnists, Headlines, John Egbeazien Oshodi
Tuesday, August 27th, 2013
As you may know our brother, Mike Ozekhome, in the last two decades, at least by international standards is one of the most prominent and loudest human rights voice in West Africa, Nigeria in particular. The reason for this is clear. With his legal voice he has engaged in targeted attacks against poverty, inequality, joblessness […]
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Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Monday, August 19th, 2013

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | london, UK | August 19, 2013 – He was billed to be one of the greatest heavy weight boxers of his generation. He said he took to boxing after watching journeyman James Douglas knock out the then invincible Mike Tyson in Tokyo in 1990. Before leaving Nigeria for the United […]
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Akintokunbo A. Adejumo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Monday, August 19th, 2013

By Akintokunbo A. Adejumo | Ibadan, Nigeria | August 19, 2013 – It was sometime in May 1999 that I dared venture to visit my country, Nigeria, after over nine years in the UK. Olusegun Obasanjo, ex-military Head of State, retired Army general and Civil War hero, convicted of treason and incarcerated, nearly executed by […]
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Abiodun Ladepo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Religion
Monday, August 19th, 2013

By Abiodun Ladepo | Los Angeles, USA | August 19, 2013 – Just two houses away from ours in Ibadan, a new church sprang up last year. The arrival of the church signaled the end of the little tranquility we enjoyed in the Apata/Oluyole axis of the city. Before the church, we had had to […]