“I hear the World Bank says Nigeria is now the worst place to do business in the entire world.” ” I don’t believe it.” “I also hear that of the 15 fastest growing economies in Africa, Nigeria is no longer on the list.” ” I say I don’t believe that. And stop hearing bad things.” […]
By Nelson Ekujumi On May 1, 2016, Nigerian workers just like their counterparts all over the world celebrated workers day, which is a day set aside globally for reflections on the working conditions of the worker with a view to proffering ameliorative solutions. Here in Nigeria, the day was commemorated at the federal and state […]
By Akintokunbo A Adejumo (akinadejum@aol.com) BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The decline in government funding of higher education, the economic downturn, the long decades of unforgivable neglect, along with rapidly rising costs of the different services and products that universities have to provide, have led to steady increases in student and parents outlays over the […]
By Owei Lakemfa BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Barack Obama was a phenomenon when he turned to politics. His Presidential victory seemed assured that July 24, 2008 day he stood in a street to address over 200,000 Germans in Berlin, in the “Victory Column Speech”. It was a trip to Europe to test if the […]
By Bamikole Omishore BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The repeal and re-enactment of the Nigerian Railway Corporation Act CAP N129, LFN 2004, 2015 (SB. 001) is targeted at re-vitalizing and enhancing the operational framework and removal of the impediments that hindered the international best practices within the rail transport sector. This Bill is currently at […]
By Tajudeen Balogun, Head, African Examiner, Nigeria Bureau I was driving late Monday morning this week, when I heard through the car radio, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), speaking on the state of Nation, at the first Town Hall meeting of the present administration held in Lagos. Although, the […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The tiny island of Cuba with no major natural resources, military prowess or strong economy, produced two of the most famous and charismatic leaders of the last one hundred years; Ernesto Che Guevara and Fidel Castro Ruiz. Both have lasting legacies and assured places in world history as people who […]
By Reuben Abati “No matter how far the town, there is another beyond it” – Fulani Proverb BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There has been so much emotionalism developing around the subject of the recent clashes between nomadic pastoralists and farmers, and the seeming emergence of the former as the new Boko Haram, forbidding not […]
By Leo Igwe BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – She is from Zimbabwe in Southern Africa but currently lives in Canada. Rudo, 30 is a skeptic with a mission, a salient ‘silent’ mission to foster skeptical rationality among African women. She describes her home country Zimbabwe as a place where ‘the religious rhetoric is deafening’ and […]
By Femi Fabiyi (femif826@gmail.com) Nigerians are one of the most religious people in the world. By noon on Fridays, Muslims all over the country close shops and offices, and head to the mosques for prayers. On Sundays, streets and shopping malls are deserted while Christians are glued to churchprograms, praying for Shelter, Prosperity, Grace, Wisdom and […]
By Bamikole Omishore NALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Potter Stewart, a renown Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court who played a significant role in the interpretation of Civil Rights laws, coined the basic phrase: “Fairness is what Justice really is.” This phrase, conceived to propel the notion of every individual’s equitable right under […]
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Despite the fact that sexual violence or assault, especially rape had been a serious crime punishable by law in Nigeria, the unholy act had continued to assumed an alarming dimension in parts of south- East Nigeria, almost on daily basis. It is no news that rape […]
By Leo Igwe BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Zambian capital, Lusaka, has been engulfed by crisis. Cases of ritual murders have been reported in the past months and locals have accused foreign nationals of being behind these savage killings. Angry mobs have gone on rampage burning houses and looting the shops of foreigners. Soldiers […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The monthly Federation Accounts Allocation Committee, FAAC, meeting was held the other day in Abuja, with the representatives of state governments again cap in hand, asking for their share of federal revenue – read: oil revenue, or better still, national cake, or our money. A paragraph in the report by […]
By Akintokunbo A Adejumo (akinadejum@aol.com) The Greater London Authority Elections – where Londoners will vote for a new Mayor of London and Members of the London Assembly – is on 5th May 2016. Yet, I, members of my family and many Londoners (including anybody who belongs to the British Commonwealth) voted today, 21st April, 2016, about […]
By Prof. R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin Nigeria We find it very pulsing finding an appropriate description for the numerous challenges facing the current serving Senators in Nigeria. One of such clallenges is their description of functions for secondary school students. We shall not let the cases between their president and the Code of […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Holy Bible commands humanity “Thou shall not covet thy neigbour’s house, thou shall not covet thy neigbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neigbour’s” (Exodus 20:17) That precisely was what Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu did on […]
By Olawale Rasheed BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Reading several commentaries harshly judging President Muhammadu Buhari often elicits strange introspection for me.You now find “wailing wailers” across party lines and from unusual quarters.I have been asking myself if the time is truly ripe to rate Buhari’s tenure as President of the republic. My introspection is […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Welcome to the Nigerian Senate where corruption will soon be made easier and simpler for politicians to engage in. The faithful friends and co-travellers of Mr. Bukola Saraki, who is facing trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal, are working hard at this. They are also hopeful the law will […]
By Prof R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria It may not have come to the minds of many Nigerians that what we currently have ongoing in the Senate arm of Nigeria Government is nothing but a film show. The principal actors are beginning to unmask but we need to wait to the end of […]
