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Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, Education, Health, NNP Columnists
Sunday, June 11th, 2017

By Arnold A. Alalibo | NNP | June 11, 2017 – I was incredibly indignant at the tragedy that befell Queen’s College, Yaba, Lagos, where two students, identified as Vivian Osainiyi and Bithia Itulua, died of cholera, resulting from the poor state of hygiene in the school. Besides the fatalities, no fewer than 16 students were […]
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Articles, Columnists, Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), NNP Columnists, Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye
Friday, June 9th, 2017

By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye _ Lagos, Nigeria | June 9, 2017 – When President Muhammadu Buhari announced the people he has selected to occupy some of the most strategic positions in his regime, there was understandable uproar across the country. Nigerians looked at the profile of these fellows and wondered what could have motivated their choice, […]
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Abia, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, State News, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Friday, June 9th, 2017

By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | June 9, 2017 – Media hype is an awkward cachet of Nigerian public life. Not surprisingly, the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), in its media hype, indict, try and convict suspects in the media, and then, with its shoddy investigations and sloppy prosecution, loses the case in […]
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Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Friday, June 9th, 2017

Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Abuja, Nigeria | June 9, 2017 – Reno Omokri: What we can learn from one another Reno Omokri’s article, ‘Hegemony: What the Igbo can learn from Yoruba and Fulani about power’ – published in the Vanguard of June 3, 2017, was very insightful and could mainstream conversations about inter-ethnic perceptions […]
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Articles, Daniel Osofisan, NNP Columnists, Women Politics
Wednesday, May 17th, 2017

By Daniel Osofisan | Jos, Nigeria | May 17, 2017 – Last week, Fortune, a part of the TIME network released a list of 34 World Leaders who are changing health care globally, and surprise! surprise! Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Chair of Gavi as well as CEO Seth Berkley, made the list. While receiving awards […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Uwa Eghomeka, Women Politics
Wednesday, May 17th, 2017

By Uwa Eghomeka | Benin, Edo | May 17, 2017 – In January of this year, there was a lot of talk about the ghostworkers syndrome in the country with some very heavy, almost depressing, figures reeled out detailing how much the government had lost paying salaries to phantom employees. Naturally, after a while, the […]
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Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Wednesday, May 17th, 2017

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Abuja, Nigeria | May 16, 2017 – There is a very funny cartoon trending in the social media. It is about a teacher who asked some pupils what they would like to be when they grow up. The pupils all replied they would want to become whistleblowers. The federal government […]
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Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Soccer, Sports
Wednesday, May 10th, 2017

By Arnold A. Alalibo / NNP / May 10, 2017 – The Confederation of African Football (CAF) witnessed a new dawn with the emergence of Madagascar Football Association boss, Ahmad Ahmad, as president of the soccer body. The election exited Issa Hayatou, a Camerounian, who had been in the saddle for about 29 years. […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Friday, May 5th, 2017

By Kenneth Uwadi | Imo, Nigeria | May 6, 2017 – I came into a bar by 4pm on Friday in Owerri. People working at the bar were wearing skinny jeans and white on top. I ordered for a bottle of beer. The bar top was sticky and the walls were painted yellow. It wasn’t my […]
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Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Saturday, April 22nd, 2017

By Arnold A. Alalibo / NNP / April 22, 2017 – The world has experienced so many bloody wars that claimed several lives and ended a lot of people in grief. Almost in every country, there are stories of how someone’s greed or lust for power ended in the carnage of many innocent persons and […]