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Friday, February 9th, 2018

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | February 9, 2018 – On Sunday December 4 2017, Atiku finally announced that he was re-joining the PDP. The Waziri Adamawa was one of the founders of the PDP, but also helped to bring the party down to its knees, when he led a walkout at the […]
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Africa & World Politics, Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Friday, February 2nd, 2018

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | February 2, 2018 – President Trump’s recent decision to move the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem has ruffled feathers across the world – but delighted Israel and some Christian evangelicals. Trump wanted to underline that he is a ‘doing President’. The truth […]
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American Politics, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Sunday, January 28th, 2018
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | January 28, 2018- A Mozambiquean professor at Howard University once summed it up in his own words, “Nigerians have very low morals”. Despite our low morals and its attendant sleaze and moral squalor, we long to be portrayed in the most favorable light. To remain wedded to unethical and amoral […]
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Africa & World Politics, Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Saturday, January 27th, 2018

By Arnold A. Alalibo | NNP | January 27, 2018 – The distance between Clara Town, the slum where George Opong Weah (ex-international footballer and Liberia’s president-elect) grew up in Monrovia, Liberia’s capital, is less than an hour’s drive to the presidential mansion. And yet, they are a world apart. How did Mr. Weah proceed […]
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Saturday, January 20th, 2018

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | January 20, 2018 – I was reasonably impressed with the overall tenor of President Buhari’s 2018 New Year’s message. Compared with some of his previous speeches, the broadcast was non-combative and represented an attempt to talk to Nigerians – instead of talking down to them as some […]
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Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, Education, NNP Columnists
Saturday, January 20th, 2018

By Arnold A. Alalibo | NNP | January 20, 2018 – The hue and cry in opposition to the eradication of History Studies from our primary and secondary schools has eventually paid off. Its notional existence for about three decades has proved catastrophic to a nation and generations interred in ignorance or incapacity. A proclamation from […]
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Articles, NNP Columnists
Sunday, January 7th, 2018

By Nyerhovwo Tonukari | NNP | January 7, 2018 – The scourge of malaria is something that has become wearisomely familiar in Nigeria. Most persons suffer from this life-threatening disease several times a year. It is not a pleasant experience, but what can a single individual or family do about it except to get treatment? […]
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Articles, EFCC Politics, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Sunday, January 7th, 2018

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | January 7, 2018 – There are gaps in the competing version of events proffered by Innocent Chukwuma, Chairman/Managing Director of Innoson Motors and the GTB Bank in their business transaction gone awry. According to Mr Chukwuma, he obtained loans from GTB which he paid off but later […]
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Wednesday, December 20th, 2017

By Arnold A. Alalibo | NNP | Dec. 20, 2017 – Zimbabwe’s protracted political crisis reached a crescendo earlier this month when President Robert Mugabe sacked his Vice President, Emmerson Mnangagwa. A battle to succeed the 93-year old nonageranian and freedom fighter-turned president was already brewing within the ruling Zimbabwe’s African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) […]
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Articles, Columnists, Nigerian Police, NNP Columnists
Wednesday, December 20th, 2017

By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | Dec. 20, 2017 – Recently, many Nigerians vehemently denounced the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) for its brutality, extortion and extra-judicial killings. It was very impressive that the uproar against SARS officers prompted immediate responses from the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and the Nigerian senate. Both the IGP and […]