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Articles, Columnists, Gigi Don-Pedro, NNP Columnists
Sunday, January 26th, 2014

By Dr. Gigi Don-Pedro | New York, USA | Jan. 26, 2014 – Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, the one-time minister of Aviation and the poster boy for ethnic jingoism is at it again. After making a name as the ultimate anti-Igbo crusader of all times with his inflammatory, ignorant and unsubstantiated claims about his Yoruba ethnic […]
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Akintokunbo A. Adejumo, Columnists, Femi Fabiyi, NNP Columnists
Thursday, January 23rd, 2014

By Femi Fabiyi & Akintokunbo A. Adejumo | Ibadan, Nigeria | Jan. 23, 2014 – Democracy promotes the same sets of value no matter where it is practiced. Simple definition implies that government is made up of people, and should serve the people. In order to enjoy the fruits (or as we call it in […]
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Abiodun Ladepo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Thursday, January 23rd, 2014

By Abiodun Ladepo | Los Angeles, USA | Jan. 23, 2014 – This past Wednesday, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan elevated crassness and primitiveness to the highest level imaginable by signing into law a bill banning homosexuality in Nigeria. I deliberately crafted the previous sentence so unambiguously. He did not just ban homosexual marriage; he banned homosexuality […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Odimegwu Onwumere
Wednesday, January 15th, 2014

By Odimegwu Onwumere | RiversNigeria | Jan. 15, 2014 – Newly married couples in Nigeria on the day of celebration wear a cheerful look. This is because every marriage is procedural in the country. There is no form of enslavement marriage, neither is there a slave nor a slave master anywhere. Women are not sold […]
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Abiodun Ladepo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Wednesday, January 15th, 2014

By Abiodun Ladepo | Los Angeles, USA | Jan 15, 2014 – They are acting as if they have never seen this picture before – the picture of politicians behaving badly. And they are acting as if they never heard the “Fellow Nigerians” salutation before – the one that used to be preceded by martial […]
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Articles, Columnists, Imo, NNP Columnists, State News, Ugochukwu Favour-Mayor
Sunday, January 12th, 2014

By Ugochukwu Favour-Mayor | Owerri, Nigeria | Jan. 12, 2014 – The gathering was actually for the Independent Newspaper Publishers Association (INPA) in Imo state, because the year came to an end and it was time for celebration, but it turned out to be a meeting for the association’s reassessment. Yes, all the pen pushers and news-makers […]
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Adewale T. Akande, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Sunday, January 12th, 2014

By Adewale T Akande | Barcelona, Spain | Jan. 12, 2014 – My little Oxford dictionary defines politician as “person engaged or interested in politics” and politics as “science and art of government; political affairs or life or principles etc.” Politics consists of “social relations involving authority and power”. A politician is defined as one […]
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Africa & World Politics, Articles, Columnists, Leburah Ganago, NNP Columnists
Sunday, January 12th, 2014

By Laburah Ganago | Atlanta, USA | Jan. 12, 2014 – One, a lawyer, the other a writer; both had a common thread running through their veins. They saw themselves as having been called to a higher duty- to deliver their oppressed peoples from the shackles of internal colonization. And they had an utmost conviction […]
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Articles, Columnists, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists
Sunday, January 5th, 2014

A speech for the all progressives congress mobilization convocation Topic: Ideological Fundamentals of the APC Speaker: Prof. Leonard Karshima Shilgba Date: January 3, 2013. Venue: gboko, Benue state. Nigeria. We must carry this message around our state and nation that now is the time for us, the people, to arise and build this broken wall […]
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Africa & World Politics, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Raheem Oluwafunminiyi
Sunday, January 5th, 2014

South Sudan President, Salva Kiir By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi | Ibadan, Nigeria | Jan. 5, 2014 – The month of July, 2011 marked a turning point in the history of South Sudan. Not only did it eventually come out of over two and half decades of a bloody civil war in Sudan after intense struggle with […]