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All Peoples' Congress (APC), Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Party Politics, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Friday, May 15th, 2015
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | May 15, 2015 – In addition to its defeat in the presidential election, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lost its dominance in the Senate and the House of Representatives and control of some time-honored PDP states like Plateau, Niger and Benue. Following these losses, the party is in […]
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All Peoples' Congress (APC), Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Party Politics, Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye
Thursday, May 14th, 2015
By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye | Lagos, Nigeria | May 14, 2015 – Recently, the Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Mr. John Oyegun, was quoted as saying that he was “sad” that his party could not produce a lawmaker from the South East to be elected as senate president or speaker of the House of […]
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Articles, Columnists, Ekiti, NNP Columnists, Olalekan Waheed Adigun, State News
Wednesday, May 13th, 2015
By Olalekan Waheed ADIGUN | NNP | May 13, 2015 – Sometimes in November, 2014 I wrote under the title OUR GOVERNOR HAS GONE MAD AGAIN on my facebook wall. The title was inspired by Ola Rotimi’s classic OUR HUSBAND HAS GONE MAD AGAIN, whose central character Col. Ladele, an impulsive, irrational soldier-turned politician was. […]
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Africa & World Politics, Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Monday, May 11th, 2015
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | May 11, 2015 – The wave of attacks against foreigners in South Africa, mostly migrants from other African countries, has attracted justified condemnation from around the world. Seven lives have been lost in the orgy of violence, with soldiers now (rather belatedly) deployed to some of the […]
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Articles, Columnists, Education, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists
Monday, May 11th, 2015
By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | May 11, 2015 – Public response to and interest in my recent article titled “On President Buhari and Corruption in Nigeria’s Education Sector,” (and other similar titles) compelled me to engage in this essay on the education sector in Nigeria, which I have decided to […]
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Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Sunday, May 10th, 2015
By Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | May 10, 2015 – I have been dismayed by three recent developments, which I believe pose very serious threat to the prevailing ‘fragile’ peace in the country. I use the word ‘fragile peace’ deliberately because even though the Armageddon predicted to follow the presidential elections of March 28 […]
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Articles, Columnists, Lloyd Ukwu, NNP Columnists, Rivers, State News
Sunday, May 10th, 2015
By Lloyd Ukwu | Washington DC, USA | May 10, 2015 – As an American educated lawyer, the use of injunctive relief in Nigeria has never seized to amaze me. In the United States of America, and certainly, in Nigeria, an injunction is a court order by which an individual is required to perform, or […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Saturday, May 9th, 2015
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | May 9, 2015 – A onetime American president, Richard Nixon, once wrote that: power is not for everyone because it takes a unique kind of man to win the struggle for power. It takes qualities like courage, perseverance, self-confidence, and especially, the belief in one’s ability to change […]
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Abdulrazaq O. hazmat, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Thursday, April 30th, 2015
By Abdulrazaq O. Hamzat | NNP | April 30, 2015 – A friend narrated what he saw in a one of the videos of xenophobic attacks currently going on in South Africa. Here him, ‘’I saw a crowd charging at a white vehicle. In the crowd were youths,men and women and some with babies on […]
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Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, United Nations
Friday, April 24th, 2015
By Arnold A. Alalibo | NNP | April 24, 2015 – In 1948, the World Health Organisation, WHO, held its first World Health Assembly where it was decided that 7th April of every year would mark the celebration of World Health Day, WHD. Since then the date has been set aside to mark WHD globally. […]
