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Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Saturday, November 12th, 2022

By Jideofor Adibe | NNP | November 12, 2022 | In recent years, ‘vote buying’ has become a popular phrase in our political discourses. But what does this really mean? Is it the same as ‘vote trading’? Does it have any impact on the country’s efforts at deepening its democracy? And what can be done to […]
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Articles, Columnists, Education, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Sunday, October 16th, 2022

By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | October 16, 2022 – The strike by the Academic Staff of University Union (ASUU) is taking a crushing toll on Nigeria. Basically, ASUU has legitimate grievance. It is insisting that the federal government must uphold its earlier agreements with ASUU before ASUU members can return to work. The earlier […]
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Articles, Columnists, Education, NNP Columnists, Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye
Sunday, October 16th, 2022

By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye | Lagos, Nigeria | October 16, 2022 – Now, let’s face it: there can only be one reason why the industrial action embarked upon by the teachers of Nigeria’s public universities since February 14 has been allowed to waste a whole seven months of the academic pursuit of many youths, and, indeed, their […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Sunday, October 16th, 2022

By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | October 16, 2022 – On October 1st 2022, Nigeria celebrated her independence anniversary. The yearly civic ritual was performed in the usual patriotic pomp, pageantry and triumphalism. However, frustrated by the state of the country, the anarchy, squalor and retrogression that are the cachets of Nigeria, some Nigerians felt […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Saturday, September 24th, 2022

By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | September 24, 2022 – In his Philosophy of History, the 19th Century German philosopher, Friedrich Hegel, wrote so disparagingly about Africans, “The African exhibits the natural man in his wild and untamed state; there is nothing harmonious with humanity to be found in his character”. And “the undervaluing of […]
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Abiodun Komolafe, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Osun, State News
Friday, September 23rd, 2022

By Abiodun Komolafe | Osun State, Nigeria | September 23, 2022 | The Osun Independent Electoral Commission (OSIEC) has announced October 15, 2022 as the date for Local Government and Local Council Development Area elections across Osun State. According to the Commission, “all the inhibiting factors and circumstances against the conduct of the elections have been […]
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Articles, Columnists, Governors, Imo, Kenneth Uwadi, NNP Columnists, State News
Friday, September 23rd, 2022

By Kenneth Uwadi | Imo State, Nigeria | September 23, 2022 – The title of a film I once watched is, “I’ll die for Mama” in which the legendary Indian Bollywood actor, Amitabh Bachchan does everything possible to fulfill a promise he had made in regard to dying for his mother . I love the […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Obiaruko Christie Ndukwe
Friday, September 23rd, 2022

By Christie Oby Ndukwe | NNP | September 23, 2022 – The day we begin to focus more on our ancestry as children of one father, the day we will put away the negatives that have kept us divided and hating over every little provocation! The failure of adherents of both religions to study their scriptures […]
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Articles, Columnists, Governors, Imo, Kenneth Uwadi, NNP Columnists, State News
Friday, August 19th, 2022

By Kenneth Uwadi | Imo State, Nigeria | August 19, 2022 – Emeka Ihedioha, the ousted governor of Imo State has been a vilified personality from all quarters and manners of people within the months. The recent wrangling between his supporters and that of Senator Samuel (Sam Daddy ) Anyanwu on who will be PDP’s flag […]
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Articles, Columnists, Labour Party (LP), NNP Columnists, Party Politics, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Wednesday, August 17th, 2022

By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | August 17, 2022 – The All Peoples Congress (APC) presidential primaries was a parade of the colorful and flamboyant, bumptious and presumptuous, arrogant and megalomaniac, and diffident and self-effacing. I was very impressed by Yemi Osibanjo, our scholarly, urbane and deftly discerning vice president. I was taken by his […]