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Articles, Columnists, Daniel Olusola, NNP Columnists
Wednesday, February 13th, 2013

By Daniel Olusola / NNP / Feb. 13, 2013 – A critical look at the composition of the present cabinet of President Goodluck Jonathan may make one question the criteria used in selecting the persons for the different portfolios. Whilst majority of the officials have been dubbed as old guards whose reign in the federal […]
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Articles, Columnists, Frisky Larr, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), NNP Columnists, Presidency
Wednesday, February 13th, 2013

By Frisky Larr / NNP / Feb.13′ 2013 – For us in the communication and media business, the nuts and bolts of success in positions of public exposure are basically the ability to communicate and connect with target audiences. In today’s world of modern communication media, hardly any public office survives the demands of public […]
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Articles, Columnists, Lagos, NNP Columnists, State News, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Thursday, February 7th, 2013

By Tochukwu Ezukanma / Lagos, Nigeria / Feb. 7, 2013 – A city is not just a collection of buildings, streets and public spaces arranged by architectural, engineering and urban planning standards. It encapsulates and expresses the totality of a people’s way of life. Therefore, Nigerian cities are invariably expressing the totality of the Nigerian […]
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Articles, Columnists, Emeka Chiakwelu, NNP Columnists, Nollywood (Film Industry)
Tuesday, February 5th, 2013

By Emeka Chiakwelu / NNP / Feb. 6, 2013 – When Hollywood announced its 2013 Oscar Award nominations earlier this month, it was said that many Nollywood stars braved the time difference and were wide awake to hear the nomination row-call. When it came to nominations for Best Foreign Language Films, no single Nollywood or […]
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Articles, Columnists, Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), NNP Columnists, Raheem Oluwafunminiyi
Tuesday, February 5th, 2013

By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi / Ibadan, Nigeria / Feb. 6, 2013 – Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence–Napoleon Bonaparte The news few weeks back asking the Comptroller-General of Immigration, Mrs. Rose Uzoma to proceed on her pre-retirement accumulated leave, continues to raise pertinent questions why those saddled with the responsibility of […]
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Articles, Columnists, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists, Presidency
Friday, February 1st, 2013

By Leonard Karshima Shilgba / Yola, Nigeria / Feb. 1, 2013 – I have seen very busy activities by Nigerian professional politicians lately; they work towards achieving their political desires in 2015. I have seen the prince on foot. President Goodluck Jonathan is on foot. I see him walking on foot, without any human security, […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Philip Amiola
Friday, February 1st, 2013

By Philip Amiola / Lagos, Nigeria / Feb. 1, 2013 – On December 31, 2012, while the world was enraptured with the prospect of ushering in the New Year, someone in Kogi state, Nigeria was busy scooping the brains out of his four-month-old son whom he had just murdered. Earlier in October of the same […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Prince Charles Dickson
Friday, February 1st, 2013

By Prince Charles Dickson / Jos, Nigeria / Feb. 1, 2013 – It has lately been called the bribe-for-job scandal, most people are talking about it like it is new but really is it new, or is it a case of business gone sour, business as usual or simply put, it is escalating? Well, let […]
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'Wale Odunsi, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Presidency
Friday, February 1st, 2013

Dear President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, Firstly, a very warm welcome from your week long trip to Switzerland and Ethiopia. How did your parley with the group of ‘Eminent Persons’ go? I hope the same you had with the leaders of Netherlands, Norway and Costa Rica; as well bosses of Huawei, Total and Coca-Cola will yield […]
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Articles, Clarius Ugwuoha, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Saturday, January 26th, 2013

By Clarius Ugwuoha / NNP / Jan. 26, 2013 / I have read and reread an interview purportedly granted by the revered Pastor Tunde Bakare, former running mate to Gen. Mohammadu Buhari in the Nigerian 2011 general elections and Senior pastor of the Latter Rain Assembly. I do not like to comment on religious personages, […]