Ending Stigmatisation of Rape Victims – By Arnold A. Alalibo

By Arnold A. Alalibo | NNP | Oct. 31, 2012 – The agony in her voice was unmistakable. From her narration, the torment she experienced following the tragedy that befell her daughter was better imagined. For 40-year old Nyeduko Mbapari (not real names) a housewife based in Port Harcourt, August 15, 2012, was a day […]

Achebe and the Bitter Truths from True Elders – By Ikechukwu Enyiagu

By Ikechukwu Enyiagu | NNP | Oct. 31, 2012 – Those who boastfully killed God’s children with starvation, deprivation and outright murder turned around, after they have made rubbish of their anti-Igbo privatization policy, and started ordaining themselves as priests of the very God whose children they joyfully killed – priests to the “Most High,” […]

Sheila Solarin and the Rest of Us – By Anthony A. Kila

By Anthony A. Kila | London, UK  | Oct. 31, 2012 Just last week we got news of the death of Mrs Sheila Solarin, wife of the late author, educationist and social activist, Dr Tai Solarin. Mrs Sheila Solarin was very much but not just the wife of her husband. In her own right, she […]

Ibos, Yorubas & The Rest of Us – By Prince Charles Dickson

By Prince Charles Dickson | Jos, Nigeria | Oct. 31, 2012 – We grab a dog with the hands and it escapes; thereafter we beckon it with two fingers. (If both hands cannot detain a dog, two fingers from a distance will not bring it to where it escaped from.) As a public commentator, I […]

Nigeria, a Dwarf at 52? – By Arnold A. Alalibo

By Arnold A. Alalibo | NNP | Oct. 26, 2012 – Nigeria is like a veritable paradox. And paradox, like irony and ambiguity has always had sensational appeal to the intellectual. No wonder Nigeria has an enduring Fascination for the genuinely restless and enquiring mind. Those who fail to appreciate the disturbing proportion of the […]

The Aluu Killings – By Clarius Ugwuoha

By Clarius Ugwuoha | NNP | Oct. 25, 2012 – It is very disconcerting that a kind of violence-mentality has permeated the consciousness of Nigerians. What informed the gruesome murder of four promising youths on the flimsy excuses of phone and laptop thefts, which were unsubstantiated, remains a puzzle to most social analysts in Nigerian. […]

The Caller You ‘Re Trying to Reach Has No Phone…By Prince Charles Dickson

 By Prince Charles Dickson | Jos, Nigeria | Oct. 24, 2012 – Aki gbele gba ofa lailo ogun–meaning, one does not sit at home, not go to war and yet be shot with an arrow. As usual there’s been little to cheer within the last week. I was sure that my admonition was going to […]

Volunteers in Nigeria Where Art Thou? – By Paul I. Adujie

By Paul I. Adujie | New York, NY  | Oct. 24, 2012 – Despite the upsurge of Christian and Islamic fundamentalism and fanaticism in Nigeria, there is dearth of volunteerism in Nigeria. Volunteerism is profoundly absent and yet,  Nigerians are said to be most religious? What then is religiosity without selflessness or being our brothers’ […]

Have the Igbos been Reintegrated Back Into Nigeria? – By Max Siollun

By Max Siollun | NNP | Oct. 24, 2012 – In an article he wrote for the UK’s Guardian newspaper last week, Nigeria’s acclaimed author Chinua Achebe said that after the Biafra-Nigeria civil war, “Igbos were not and continue not to be reintegrated into Nigeria, one of the main reasons for the country’s continued backwardness.” […]

The Ondo Elections: Performance is the Key – By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi

By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi | Ibadan, Nigeria | Oct. 24, 2012 – The gubernatorial elections held recently in both Edo and Ondo states has come and gone with all stakeholders, most especially the INEC as the electoral umpire having learnt one or two things. Even as this writer is of the opinion that there is more […]

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