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Thursday, August 2nd, 2018
By Tajudeen Balogun, Head, African Examiner, Nigeria Bureau BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – After a relatively long break from the Nigerian political scene, the impunity in which a cross section of the country’s political class is reputed, unfortunately came to play early this week. It was demonstrated by reckless eight Benue State, North central Nigeria, […]
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Tuesday, July 31st, 2018
Photo: APC Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – When we wrote much earlier that the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nigeria’s ruling party was a coalition of strange bedfellows and a one-chance special purpose vehicle to get rid of President Goodluck Jonathan by all and any means possible, we were accused of sour grapes. When we […]
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Sunday, July 29th, 2018
By Tajudeen Balogun, Head, African Examiner, Nigeria Bureau BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – It is anticipated that less than a year to the 2019 general elections, political activities have taken various lively but intriguing dimensions. After a long waiting which ignited many speculations, what may be considered as the window of more political realignments still […]
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Friday, July 27th, 2018
By Sufuyan Ojeifo (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Since he resumed office on June 26 after his emergence as national chairman of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) on June 23, 2018, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has put his nose to the grindstone in practical demonstration of his avowed commitment to reposition the party, strengthen internal cohesion and […]
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Friday, July 27th, 2018
By Sufuyan Ojeifo (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The coming together of political forces of the oppositional hue in the build-up to the 2015 general election portended a grave danger for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). In any case, the behemoth, which the PDP typified at the time, had imprudently and lightly treated the ill-omened development and […]
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Tuesday, July 24th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – It is more than two weeks now since His Lordship Justice Ijeoma L. Ojukwu of the Federal High Court, Abuja, gave clear, positive and unambiguous orders in the matter between Col Mohammed Sambo Dasuki (rtd) as applicant and three persons – the Director General, State Security Services, the State Security Services and […]
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Monday, July 23rd, 2018
By Sufuyan Ojeifo (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari, who went into the 2015 presidential election on the crest of a countrywide approbation as a man of integrity, could not have come better recommended by Nigerians for the task of clearing the nation’s Augean stables. On the force of his antecedents and credentials, he was […]
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Tuesday, July 17th, 2018
By Abdulahi Ibrahim (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria is a country witnessing many developments. In an era of many controversies, a positive aspect still appears in an obscure corner. Disposal of public assets can conform to due process and extant laws. An agency is walking the talk. As civil society activists, we pry over many agencies […]
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Tuesday, July 17th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – One of the usual features on Nigerian social media is the nostalgic passion with which Nigerians often distribute pictures of the old Nigeria Airways and how that company once considered one of the best in Africa was mismanaged and made to fail. Established in 1958, it was liquidated in 2003. I have […]
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Friday, July 13th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A dozen boys, members of a youth football club with the intimidating name, The Wild Boars, ventured into the six-mile Tham Luang Cave. The cave is in the 1,275-kilometre long Doi Non Mountain Range in North Thailand. The boys are aged 11-16 with Wiboonrungrueng Chanin, being the youngest. With them was their […]
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Tuesday, July 10th, 2018
By Sufuyan Ojeifo (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The exculpation of senate president, Dr. Bukola Saraki, last Friday, by the Supreme Court in the false asset declaration suit filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) exemplifies the finality of judicial intercessions in the matter. As lawyers would say, the matter is now res […]
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Tuesday, July 10th, 2018
By Jerome-Mario Utomi (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Demystifying the time-honored saying that; ‘the powerful never lose opportunities-they remain available to them, that the powerless on the other hand, never experience opportunity – it is always arriving at a later time, remains a remarkable political lesson Nigerians gave to the world in 2015. The lesson was predicated […]
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Sunday, July 1st, 2018
Photo: Olawale Rasheed By Olawale Rasheed (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chinese conceived the grand Road and Belt Initiative(RBI) as a strategic agenda to change developmental politics of the world. Almost five years after, the BIR is yielding results that even worst of critics are now acknowledging. RBI is truly disruptive of existing order; it was […]
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Sunday, July 1st, 2018
By Segun Afolabi (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The call for a review of Nigeria’s security architecture by the Governor of Sokoto State and former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, is coming at the right time and with the right tone and emphasis. It is also coming from someone who, I am […]
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – It has been ten years since the self-styled “strong man of Ibadan politics”, Chief Lamidi Ariyibi Akanji Adedibu, died. He died on June 11, 2008. I do not recall seeing many tributes or advertisements in the newspapers or other media commemorating his life and legacy. There was no public lecture or any […]
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Sunday, June 24th, 2018
By Sufuyan Ojeifo (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former governor of Edo state, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, was destined to be national chairman of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) at this intersection in the nation’s political evolution. His emergence approximates a part of the philosophy in the muses of H.L. Detridge that “we are all victims of […]
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Thursday, June 21st, 2018
…Appraisal Before Darkness Falls By Francis Amadiegwu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As a grandfathered member/associate of APC, I am constrained to note, with alarm, the potentially crippling distress the party has wrought or about to wreak, upon itself, an unforced error that is far worse than just an “own goal” because a team can still overcome […]
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Tuesday, June 12th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – I used to have a friend we called Alhaji Bashy. He was not a Muslim. No. But he called himself Alhaji Bashy, even if that was not his real name. You want to know his real name? It was Theophilus. And his wife was named Ruth. His children? He was yet to […]
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Monday, June 11th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Arkady Babchenko, a veteran of the Chechen wars in Russia became a Defence Correspondent working mainly for the ‘Novaya Gazeta’. For over a decade, he covered wars like those against Georgia and the on-going separatist conflict in Southeast Ukraine. He incurred public displeasure in December, 2016, when following the crash of an airline carrying a 64-member military choir and other […]
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Sunday, June 10th, 2018
By Sufuyan Ojeifo (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – June 12, 1993 was the day eligible Nigerians trooped out in their numbers to choose between the late M.K.O. Abiola of the defunct Social Democratic Party (SDP) and Alhaji Bashir Tofa of the defunct National Republican Convention (NRC) who would be president of the of Nigeria. The foundation for […]
