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Saturday, April 23rd, 2016
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 […]
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Thursday, April 21st, 2016
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 […]
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Tuesday, April 19th, 2016
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 […]
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Sunday, April 17th, 2016
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 […]
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Saturday, April 16th, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There is an on-going struggle for the soul of Brazil, the world’s fifth largest country which has become a model of how to rescue millions from abject poverty. The battles may well turn bloody because it is not strictly a fight over constitutionalism, corruption or the economy; it is primarily, […]
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Saturday, April 16th, 2016
Leo Igwe BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – What’s really going on in Zambia? What is this prayer thing all about? I mean, what has come over President Lungu and his government. It seems prayer is the ‘solution’ to every problem this country is facing. Is this due to lack of political ideas or vision? This […]
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Friday, April 15th, 2016
By Tajudeen Balogun, Head, African Examiner, Nigeria Bureau It is very sad that Nigeria is again being embroiled in another avoidable and needless controversy within the government circle. Indeed, it is disturbing and regrettable that even, the present ruling ‘house’ in the country is divided within itself! So sad that Nigerians, 11 months after liberating […]
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Friday, April 15th, 2016
By Haruna Mohammed Salisu Daily Trust newspaper of April 4, 2016 unearthed a damning story where ex-governors and their deputies, now serving ministers and senators, loot their economically crippled states in the name of “pension”. The report also unveiled that the ex-governors and their deputies, now serving senators and ministers, are also entitled to two […]
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Friday, April 15th, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square. Michelle Obama I laughed and cackled ceaselessly. I have not had such a long, healthy cackle […]
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Friday, April 15th, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – During the Jonathan administration, an outspoken opposition spokesperson had argued that Nigeria was on auto-pilot, a phrase that was gleefully even if ignorantly echoed by an excitable opposition crowd. Deeper reflection should have made it clear even to the unthinking that there is no way any country can ever be […]
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Thursday, April 14th, 2016
By Leo Igwe From spreading the ‘good news of theism’, he is now propagating the ‘gospel of atheism’ and from being the ‘Saul’ of charismatic Christianity, Keith, a former pastor from Namibia in Southern Africa is now a fire brand ‘Paul’ of skepticism and an unrelenting apostle of freethought in his country. Recently I had […]
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Tuesday, April 12th, 2016
By Prof R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria In this era of change, gambling, magic and other surprises are being born again, in the hands of desperate Nigerian politicians. Illegality, outright evil, deceptions and intrigues now also on the increase and hellbent on the destruction of all of our common sense. Our focus is […]
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Monday, April 11th, 2016
As is usually the case with teenagers leaving home for the first time, when I went to the university, I was adventurous. During my first semester holidays, rather than go home in Lagos, I went with my new found friend, Edmond Enaibe whose home was in Port Harcourt. From Port, I travelled to my ancestral […]
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Sunday, April 10th, 2016
By Femi Fabiyi (femif826@gmail.com) The buzz “Globalization” has redefined socio economic affairs in many developing and underdeveloped countries. Many countries are relishing robust trade deals in lieu of more liberal international economic laws, promoting less barriers and reduced tariffs in an effort to create real and valuable assets–based–opportunities, tailored towards growing economic and social wealth, particularly […]
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Sunday, April 10th, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The move by the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) to impeach South African President Jacob Zuma for corruption, was bound to end in failure. This is because the ruling African National Congress (ANC) had ahead of the April 5, 2016 motion, backed Zuma. For the impeachment to sail through, 267 votes […]
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Sunday, April 10th, 2016
“I saw something yesterday. I thought it was a joke.” “What happened?” “Nigerians and their sense of humour; we always manage to squeeze laughter out of every situation, no matter how sad.” “I don’t like the suspense. What is it?” “I attended a wedding engagement ceremony.” “And?” “When the groom’s family was presenting gifts to […]
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Saturday, April 9th, 2016
By Philip Agbese BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – If I were offered the position of the Minister of State for Petroleum at the time the current occupant, Dr Ibe Kachikwu got the job, there is almost a guarantee that I would have found a non-offensive way of turning it down and “codedly” request to serve […]
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Thursday, April 7th, 2016
By Olufemi Idowu Samuel BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The making of the duo of Mr Femi Adesina and Mallam Garba Shehu as media anchors to President Muhammadu Buhari did not come by happenstance. At different times, the two gentlemen had paid their dues in the media world, blazing the trail at critical times in […]
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2016
By Emmanuel Onwubiko The Fulani ethnic nationality is a unique brand of people in the sense that they are perpetually nomadic. The nomadic nature of these people has made it impossible to precisely pin them down to any specific geo-political locale but for purposes of intellectual debate, the Fulani are Northerners of Northern Nigeria. Fulani […]
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2016
By Emeka Chiakwelu The Police force is the physical embodiment of a representative government, the closest manifestation of democracy to the people. It is not farfetched to describe the police force as the face of a government. The state of the police force – its appearance, psychology and respectability delineate the worth and priority of […]
