(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kunle Ajibade who turned sixty on May 28 titled his prison memoirs “Jailed for Life”. He was indeed sentenced to life imprisonment in 1995 by General Sani Abacha and his henchmen for alleged coup plotting when all the weaponry he ever wielded was the pen. A number of our colleagues in the […]
Francis Amadiegwu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – I find it perplexing that the IG of Police would recklessly publicize that the Police had invited the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki for questioning. Senator Saraki, as the second-in-line to the nation’s presidency, deserves some courtesy, by virtue of the office he occupies. This audacious tantrum by the allegedly […]
Photo: Mamoudou Gassama Meets French President Macron in Paris (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mamoudou Gassama, 22, left Mali, to seek a better life in Europe. For this, he was willing to stake his life. He undertook the perilous journey of travelling by road, boarding an unsafe boat across the Mediterranean Sea into Italy and arriving in France where he […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Spokesperson of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Mr. Bolaji Abdullahi and that of the main opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party, Mr. Kola Ologbodiyan, last week had a lively debate on television. Both were polite and civil, befitting the Gentlemen of the Press. The debates had little to do with principles, ideologies […]
By Oludare Sunday Fase, Baltimore, USA Photo 1: Amb. Tunde Adetunji, the President of the National Heritage Foundation and centre, Atlanta, USA Photo 2 & 3: Amb Adetunji posts for photograph with other participants at the SDG7 Bangkok Conference (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The concept of “One World” is not new as it has been eloquently pursued many […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Following a codeine-propelled high drug addiction problem, the Federal Government in a swift reaction, banned the production and importation of codeine containing cough syrup. The syrup usually taken by millions of youths who mix it with soft drinks, alcohol or illegal drugs, leads to physical and mental reliance on the drug and can […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The failed attempt on April 28, to recall Kogi West Senator, Dino Melaye in which the ‘Recallists’ scored a miserable 5.3 percent, is not my focus. My mind is on matters arising which are likely to feature in the 2019 general elections. In the “Statement of Results of Verification for Recall” signed […]
By Jerome-Mario Utomi (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Leadership is viewed as deformed when the leader assumes self-sufficient attitude, despise others and views self as the exclusive possessor of what he has, as well as claim excellence not possessed. Unfortunately, such characterizes the leadership’s sphere, not just in Nigeria but Africa as a continent. A factor that’s […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – When I wrote last month about Senator Dino Melaye, representing Kogi West Senatorial District, I was accused in certain quarters of nursing a king size grudge against the Okun born politician. Some people suggested that the write up smirked of bellicosity if not outright hyperbolism. Indeed, the effluents imbued in that piece, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – American President Donald Trump sat on Monday, April 30 with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari who was on a state visit and told him: “We had very serious problems with Christians who are being murdered in Nigeria; We are going to be working on that problem very, very hard because we cannot allow […]
Photo: Owei Lakemfa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The invasion of the hallowed chambers of the Senate on Wednesday while the Distinguished were in session, was dramatic but not unexpected. We are lucky that the invaders were not out to physically attack the Senators, otherwise, there might have been some casualties amongst them more so when the […]
Photo: Sen. Omo-Agege, Member, Nigerian Senate By Sufuyan Ojeifo (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – If the invasion of the Senate in plenary on Wednesday, April 18, 2018 by two thugs sponsored by suspended Senator Ovie Omo-Agege (APC, Delta Central), during which they attacked the Mace, the legislative symbol of authority, and made away with it in a […]
By Jerome-Mario Utomi (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – For the 2030 sustainable agenda to succeed, says the United Nation, partnership and collaboration must be given a disciplined attention. This world body further stated that the scale and ambition of this agenda calls for smart partnerships, collaborations, ecosystem thinking, co-creation and alignment of various intervention efforts by the […]
By Prof. R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria (AFRICAN EXAMINER) -V As we open our eyes four years after Boko Haram stole away some 276 female school girls in Chibok Government School overnight on April 14, 2014, we still desire to see the true motives of the captors. We want to examine the implications […]
Photo: Ms Angela Alsobrooks and Harrison Harrison C. Nwozo Jr. …And What Her Election Means to African Diaspora By Harrison C. Nwozo Jr. (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At an appearance Ms. Alsobrooks made on February 25, 2018 with United Brothers Organization (An African Diaspora Group of African Business Owners in PG County), at their meeting in […]
By Jerome- Mario Utomi (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Scandal in the words of Paul Glenn is a needless word or deed which does harm to those who hear or observe them, it is the word or deed that occasions sin in another; it is a bad example. Very instructive also is the fact that; to the […]
By Prof R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria Nigeria party politics’ Fourth Republic that started May 29, 1999 is already counting its years. It is now the longest regime. From October 1, 1960 to date the regimes are as follows, namely, 1960-1966 (PP 6 years), 1966-1979 (MD 13 years), 1979-1983 (PP 4 years), 1983-1993 […]
By Sufuyan Ojeifo (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – I got a credible information last week from some grapevines in Abuja that the much-talked about outstanding sum of $322 million (not $321 million as has been widely reported) stashed away in some secret accounts by former military dictator, the late General Sani Abacha, in Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Switzerland, […]
By Prof R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – It is another Easter week and you know that you’re supposed to be rejoicing over Christ’s sacrifice on the cross and his miraculous resurrection. However your response has been the “wearing your usual plastic smiles” around in all the activities. You are indifference, […]
Photo: Reuben Abati (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – I was in Morocco recently, about 20 years after I last visited Timbuktu, Marrakech, Casablanca, Rabat and Laayoune. I was quite impressed to see how Morocco with its colour-coded cities remains very much an organized, efficient and a comparatively competitive country. The trip this time began from the Lagos […]
