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Articles, Columnists, Education, NNP Columnists, Odimegwu Onwumere
Saturday, December 14th, 2013
By Odimegwu Onwumere | Port-Harcourt, Nigeria | Dec. 14, 2014 – Reading culture is dying in Nigeria. A tiny number out of about 160 million people have healthy reading habits institutionalised. Majority just enlist into various schools. Many have graduated. They are all for the obtainment of certificates. This habit is causing our country harm. […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Philip Amiola
Friday, December 13th, 2013
By Philip Amiola | NNP | Dec. 13, 2013 – Recently, I met a bright American chap who is not favourably disposed to watching CNN because as far as he’s concerned, CNN is an acronym for Constant Negative News. I didn’t find it difficult to understand his viewpoint as I have often thought along those […]
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Africa & World Politics, Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Friday, December 13th, 2013
By Arnold A. Alalibo | NNP | Dec.13, 2013 – After suffering from a series of severe lung infections for more than two years, Nelson Rolihlahia Madiba Mandela, the anti-apartheid hero and former South African president, had a date with death at home and right in the company of some of his family members. Mandela, […]
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Articles, Columnists, Education, NNP Columnists, Raheem Oluwafunminiyi
Monday, December 9th, 2013
By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi | Ibadan, Nigeria | Dec. 9, 2013 –Not too long ago, while glancing through one of the social media platforms for further details and information on the gloomy election recently held in Anambra state, this writer came across a bold comment from someone who warned harsh critics of everything that has […]
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Anambra, Articles, Columnists, Headlines, NNP Columnists, Okey Ndibe, State News
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013
Okey Ndibe | Connecticut, USA | Dec. 3., 2013 – Numerous political pundits stipulated that the recent governorship election in Anambra would serve as a gauge of things to come in the 2015 general elections. Anambra, these pundits suggested, would have a lot to say about the place and direction of Nigeria. If that projection […]
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Articles, Columnists, Edo, NNP Columnists, Odimegwu Onwumere, State News
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013
By Odimegwu Onwumere | Rivers, Nigeria | Dec. 3, 2013 – Gov. Adams Oshiomhole had apologised for telling a roadside trader-widow, “Woman, go and die”, in Edo State. The woman was squatting on the ground, pleading that her confiscated goods be released. Gov. Oshiomhole, had perhaps apologised, having seen that most Nigerians are like a […]
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Articles, Columnists, Headlines, Lagos, NNP Columnists, Raheem Oluwafunminiyi, State News, Top Stories
Saturday, November 23rd, 2013
By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi | Ibadan, Nigeria | Nov. 22, 2013 – When the quintessential Lagos state governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola revealed few days ago that more than N36 billion is spent by Lagosians annually to organise parties, he was merely stating a long known and obvious social malady among the vast majority of Nigerians. What […]
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Abdullahi M. Seidu, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Women Politics
Monday, November 18th, 2013
By Abdullahi M. Seidu | NNP | Nov. 18, 2013 – In Nigeria, it is customary for us to throw stones at government officials when they stray off course; and even when they get it right, we still find stones to throw, while we turn blind eyes to their good deeds. Perhaps this is due […]
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Articles, Columnists, Education, Isaachar Odion, NNP Columnists
Monday, November 18th, 2013
By Isaachar Odion | NNP | Nov. 18, 2013 – The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has overstepped the bounds of reason. To say that most discerning Nigerians are angry with the union is an understatement. Whoever anticipated that ASUU’s show of shame would last this long? At first, we all sympathised with the […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Raheem Oluwafunminiyi
Monday, November 18th, 2013
By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi | Ibadan, Nigeria | Nov. 18, 2013 – The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. –- Francis Bacon When […]
