My Response to Nigerians Opposing Local Government Autonomy – Dr. Leonard K....
By Dr. Leonard Karshima Shilgba | NNP | Nov. 12, 2022 – The concern of some of us who know is that, this failure by state governors to release to the Local Government Councils their monthly statutory...
View ArticleMy Thoughts on ASUU Strike – By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba
By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba | NNP | August 17, 2022 MY THOUGHTS ON ASUU STRIKE Lagos State universities are not on strike! I am yet to understand why academic staff of state-owned universities often...
View ArticleNow that the Candidates Have Emerged – By Prof. Leonard K. Shilgba
By Prof. Leonard Karshima Shilgba | NNP | July 24, 2022 – First, let me congratulate all Nigerians on this Democracy Day. We must also congratulate ourselves that Nigeria has endured uninterrupted...
View ArticleBirthing the Nigerian Spirit – By Prof. Leonard K. Shilgba
BIRTHING THE NIGERIAN SPIRIT We must come to a time in our journey when religion shall be only a PRIVATE affair; Then, the Nigerian spirit shall be born. We must not complain about poor governance,...
View ArticleA Missing Strong Link in the All Progressive Congress (APC) – Dr. Leonard K....
By Dr. Leonard Karshima Shilgba | NNP | August 15, 2021 – The strength of any political party derives from the framing of a constitution which provides for equity, fairness, and liberty of thought,...
View ArticleAnnouncing the publication of – Nigeria and Her Seven Secrets: Building a...
Nigeria and Her Seven Secrets: Building a More Perfect Union: Pre-1914 to 2016 Nigeria and Her Seven Secrets is a manual for Nigeria’s socio-political restructuring. The book provides an exposition on...
View ArticleA New Year, New Minds – By Dr. Leonard Karshima Shilgba
By Dr. Leonard Karshima Shilgba | NNP | January 15, 2021 – Thanking God for giving each of us another year of opportunities of service to him would be appropriate. As leaders in our various corners...
View ArticleNigeria: A Montage of Nationhood – By Dr. Leonard Karshima Shilgba
By Dr. Leonard Karshima Shilgba | NNP | November 7, 2020 – The recent wave of civic consciousness which is blowing across Nigeria, in spite of the gust of sabotage and betrayals that it has chalked...
View Article#ENDSARS: The Next Step- By Dr. Leonard Karshima Shilgba
By Dr. Leonard Karshima Shilgba | NNP | October 27, 2020 – For a time I held my peace on the #EndSARS movement. In fact, I had tuned off certain matters about Naija. There was a time I became...
View ArticlePresident Buhari Reset (Part I) – By Dr. Leonard Karshima Shilgba
By Dr. Leonard Karshima Shilgba | NNP | July 23, 2020 – More than five years ago, President Buhari’s party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) won a historic presidential election to replace a ruling...
View ArticleNigerian Fast, Heresy, and Common Sense – By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba
Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | May 20, 2018 – “Cry aloud, spare not; lift up your voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression…Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my...
View ArticleNigerians, Foreign is not Always Better – Dr. Leonard Karshima Shilgba
By Dr. Leonard Karshima Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | March 10, 2018 – Last Saturday, a friend forwarded to me this headline: “Nigerians are receiving expired education, says US Varsity VC.” The story was...
View ArticleCan I Trust Your Electoral Choice? – Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba
By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | Feb. 23, 2018 – DEmocracy , as a human contrivance, is dependent on human choice among an array of options. The choice of majority of qualified electors is...
View ArticleOn the Menace of Cattle Herders in Nigeria – By Dr. Leonard Karshima Shilgba
By Leonard Karshima Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | May 23, 2016 - There has been a rash of proposals to resolve the menace of cattle herders’ invasion of Nigerian farmlands, who are killing unarmed...
View ArticleDeveloping Minds, Developing Nations – By Leonard Karshima Shilgba
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,...
View ArticleMy Open Letter to Nigerians – By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba
By Dr. Leonard Karshima Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | March 20, 2016 - To you, my fellow compatriots, I say, “Do not turn away your attention from this epistle of mine; I address you plainly.” Do you know...
View ArticleMandela’s People Who Kill Black Africans – By Leonard Karshima Shilgba
By Leonard Karshima Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | Oct. 4, 2015 - In 2009, Bishop Desmond Tutu was on the campus of the American University of Nigeria as a guest speaker. In his speech, he apologized to...
View ArticleIn Defense of Nigeria – By Dr. Leonard Karshima Shilgba
By Dr. Leonard Karshima Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | August 31, 2015 – There is no more potent common denominator for all sections of the Nigerian state than corruption, which is using public office or...
View ArticleRe-engineering Nigeria’s Education Sector (II) – By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba
Read Part One By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | May 26, 2015 – In the first of this series, I addressed issues such as accreditation and management of tertiary education in Nigeria. I now...
View ArticleRe-engineetring Nigeria’s Education Sector -(I) – By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba
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...
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