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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 […]
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Saturday, June 9th, 2018
Photo: President/CEO, Africa Heritage Center, Ambassador Tunde Adetunji (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The brain drain syndrome has remained one of the critical issues that are affecting the human resource development index of Nigeria as professionals in various fields of human endeavor are by each passing day jetting out of the country without looking inward. The reason for the […]
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Thursday, June 7th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There are three aspects – the strategic, the political and the legal – to the Federal Government’s decision to replace May 29 with June 12 as Nigeria’s Democracy Day, and to confer on the late Chief MKO Abiola, the highest honour in the land. Strategy: Long before now, the Buhari government had […]
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Monday, June 4th, 2018
(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 […]
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Monday, June 4th, 2018
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 […]
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Friday, June 1st, 2018
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 […]
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Sunday, May 27th, 2018
(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 […]
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Monday, May 21st, 2018
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 […]
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Monday, May 14th, 2018
From Ignatius Okpara, Owerri (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Heavily armed police operatives of the Imo State Command have taken over the secretariat of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Following the crisis that characterised the ward congress held on May 5th, 2018 in the state, the national leadership of the party decided to postpone the State […]
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Monday, May 14th, 2018
(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 […]
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2018
(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 […]
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Monday, May 7th, 2018
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 […]
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Monday, May 7th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The political differences between a former Governor of Ogun State, Chief Olusegun Osoba and the incumbent, Senator Ibikunle Amosun appears to have finally climaxed as both leaders met on Sunday in Lagos. Reports say the two party’s Leaders discussed at their meeting the outcome of last Saturday ward congresses of the ruling […]
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Friday, May 4th, 2018
(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, […]
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Friday, May 4th, 2018
(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 […]
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Monday, April 23rd, 2018
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 […]
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Thursday, April 19th, 2018
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The protracted crisis bedeviling the Igbo umbrella body, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has reached its peak, as the embattled President-General of the organization, Chief Nnia Nwodo, has been reportedly sacked from office, and replaced by another Enugu state elder statesman, Chief Richard Ozobu It would be recalled that for several […]
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Wednesday, April 18th, 2018
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 […]
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Wednesday, April 18th, 2018
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 […]
