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Articles, Columnists, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), NNP Columnists
Tuesday, May 17th, 2016

By Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | May 17, 2016 – This reflection is a continuation of my last week’s piece on how to re-engineer our politics to make it less anarchic and more oriented towards nation-building. As I argued, there is pervasive fear that the ethnic group/region that wins power at the centre will use […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Samuel O. Adeyemi
Monday, May 16th, 2016

By Samuel O. Adeyemi | Lagos, Nigeria | May 16, 2016 – Yet again, another casualty has been recorded on the global media scene. The Independent Newspapers in the United Kingdom isabout going all digital, thereby burying its print edition forever. At its peak, The Independent was churning out half a million daily prints and then it went down to an abysmal low […]
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Articles, Columnists, Hakeem Babalola, NNP Columnists
Monday, May 16th, 2016

By Hakeem Babalola | Budapest, Hungary | May 16, 2016 – They now say I am fantastically corrupt. Is this true or not? Fantastically corrupt! I know I am corrupt, but am I fantastically corrupt? Are they right to say I am fantastically corrupt? Even if I am fantastically corrupt, is it right for my […]
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Articles, Columnists, Mike Rapu, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), NNP Columnists, Presidency
Thursday, May 12th, 2016

By Mike Rapu | Lagos, Nigeria | May 13, 2016 – Augeas, the mythical king of Elis, kept great stables that held 3,000 oxen and had not been cleaned for thirty years – until Hercules was assigned the job. Hercules accomplished this task by causing two rivers to run through the stables. This story depicts […]
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Articles, Columnists, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists
Thursday, May 12th, 2016

By Leonard Karshima Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | May 12, 2016 – Nations are not labeled “Developed” just because they have world-class infrastructure, which are after all only by-products of development, but because of the amount and quality of knowledge that they have created through exercised developed minds, by which I mean minds that are able to […]
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Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016

By Arnold A. Alalibo | NNP | May 3, 2016 – The Federal Government recently organised a two-day National Economic Council (NEC) retreat on March 21 and 22, 2016 in Abuja. The retreat was organized following Prof. Wole Soyinka’s call on President Muhammadu Buhari to hold a national economic summit to address the nation’s ailing […]
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Articles, Columnists, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), NNP Columnists, Olusola Daniel
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016

By Olusola Daniel | Lagos, Nigeria | May 3, 2016 – I am aware some people may not be comfortable with my title, but I need to share my perspectives nonetheless. Hear me and hear me well: If I were to do it again, I will vote Buhari. I have few regrets in my life, […]
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Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | May 3, 2016 – Nigeria can be anything but boring. The country often reminds one of the title of one of Dr Anezi Okoro’s novellas – One Week, One Trouble (African University Press, 1972). In that novella, the lead character Wilson Tagbo, a brilliant and determined chap, had […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Raheem Oluwafunminiyi
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016

By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi | NNP | May 3, 2016 – “God will not change the condition of a people unless they change what is their hearts.” – Holy Qur’an In the run up to the 2015 election, Nigeria found itself at a boiling point. Not only were prophets of doom waiting to see the outcome of […]
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American Politics, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Olalekan Waheed Adigun
Tuesday, April 19th, 2016

By Olalekan Waheed Adigun | NNP | April 19, 2016 – There was once a great soul who once walked this earth. The United States boasts of having great personalities like George Washington and Abraham Lincoln who both served has its presidents but few historians will neglect the FDR’s contributions. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as […]