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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Philips Akpoviri., Reuben Abati
Thursday, September 6th, 2012
By Philip Akpoviri | NNP | Sept. 6, 2012 – Save for President Jonathan and his wife, Dame Patience, no other serving Nigerian public official, in my reckoning has in the past year attracted more vilification than Dr Reuben Abati, the president’s spokesman. The Petroleum Minister, Mrs Diezani Allison-Maduekwe comes pretty close, but Abati leads […]
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Articles, Columnists, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists
Monday, September 3rd, 2012
Read Part (I) – http://newnigerianpolitics.com/2012/09/03/the-nigerian-challenge-the-future-of-minorities-i-by-dr-leonard-k-shilgba/ A Basil Chianson Annual Lecture at Benue States University, August 25, 2012 By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | Sept. 3, 2012 – Nigeria was not designed to become a nation; she was designed for mundane materialism. Although some efforts were made in 1963 by Nigerian nationalists to […]
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Articles, Columnists, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists
Monday, September 3rd, 2012
A Basil Chianson Annual Lecture at Benue States University, August 25, 2012 By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | Sept., 3, 2012 – I have been invited to this annual Lecture of the Basil Chianson Foundation to talk on the Nigerian Challenge and the Future of the Minorities. The members of the Board […]
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Articles, Churchill Okonkwo, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Monday, September 3rd, 2012
By Churchill Okonkwo | NNP | Sept., 3, 2012 – Intellectual laziness tends to be harder to spot and much easier to disguise with randomness eclipsed by high degree of entropy in Nigerian system. There is currently a pervasive intellectual laziness in policy formulation and implementation from supposed experts in President Jonathan’s administration. The culture […]
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Anthony A. Kila, Articles, Columnists, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), NNP Columnists, Presidency
Monday, September 3rd, 2012
By Anthony A. Kila | London, UK | Sept. 3, 2012 – Regardless of all the reservations or enthusiasm that a voter might have for his government, we are all bound as citizens to observe that the news that President Goodluck Jonathan has signed a performance contract with his ministers is good news. We are […]
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Articles, Columnists, Ikechukwu Enyiagu, Nnamdi Azikiwe (1963-66), NNP Columnists, Presidency
Monday, September 3rd, 2012
By Ikechukwu Enyiagu | NNP | Sept. 3., 2012 – There was once an old man in a part of Igboland whose activities became the shame of his children, family and the entire town. As old as he was, he did not only indulge in drug abuse, he rallied hopeless and helpless youths to do […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Prince Charles Dickson
Monday, September 3rd, 2012
By Prince Charles Dickson | Jos, Nigeria | Sept. 3, 2012 – In recent times the Nigerian polity has continued in its usual stride, with both leadership and the led. Mere cosmetic measures, short termed solutions to long term problems designed with a view to averting stampedes and convulsions. Right from the dawn of the […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Raheem Oluwafunminiyi
Monday, September 3rd, 2012
By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi | Ibadan, Nigeria | Sept. 3, 2012 – This writer is angry not because there is a problem with Nigeria (apologies to Chinua Achebe), not because we now have a clueless and myopic administration, which according to one of its aides, is the most cursed in the world, not because Boko Haram […]
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Articles, Columnists, Emeka Chiakwelu, NNP Columnists
Monday, September 3rd, 2012
By Emeka Chiakwelu | NNP | Sept. 3, 2012 – Zenon Petroleum and Gas needs to make strategic move into oil exploration and petroleum refinery Femi Otedola has taken Zenon Petroleum and Gas to its greater heights in the area of petroleum products marketing and distribution. As the president and chief executive officer, he has […]
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Articles, Columnists, Governors, Imo, Kenneth Uwadi, NNP Columnists, State News
Monday, September 3rd, 2012
Read Part I – http://newnigerianpolitics.com/2012/08/04/gov-okorocha-and-the-lga-cash-pot-by-kenneth-uwadi/ Read Part II – http://newnigerianpolitics.com/2012/08/17/gov-okorocha-the-lga-cash-pot-part-ii/ Kenneth Uwadi | Imo State, Nigeria | Sept. 3, 2012 – Imo State is one of the 36 States of Nigeria with Owerri as its capital and largest city. The State came into existence in 1976 along with other new States created under […]
