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Wednesday, April 18th, 2018
From Ignatius Okpara IMO, NIGERIA, (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Imo state Police Command has hinted that the two policemen who allegedly shot two persons during a traditional wedding at Anara, in Isiala Mbano council Area of the State last weekend are not its men, but from Ekiti State, South-West Nigeria. It said the policemen did […]
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Saturday, April 14th, 2018
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 […]
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Saturday, April 14th, 2018
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Imo state Police Command is to carry out through investigation into the death of three brothers aged five, three, and two which occurred weekend at Onuimo Council Area of the state. Mr Chris Ezike, the Commissioner of police in the state, gave the order in Owerri, the […]
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Friday, April 13th, 2018
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 […]
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Friday, April 6th, 2018
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 […]
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Sunday, April 1st, 2018
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, […]
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2018
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, […]
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2018
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 […]
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Monday, March 26th, 2018
By Jerome-mario Utomi (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – It is a deep-seated teaching within the religious circle that for a man to exist, comprehends, exercise and act; he must depend on a supernatural gift called grace. Such ‘grace’ for political decisiveness seems to have been recently released upon our nation’s Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbanjo as he […]
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Sunday, March 25th, 2018
By Emmanuel Bello (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – I’m sure former defence minister, General TY Danjuma does not need much defence and when he does, has very qualified people to do so. But let me quickly stop some people in their tracks with context as they continue to hurtle hate and spiteful lines at the General for […]
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Wednesday, March 21st, 2018
By Sufuyan Ojeifo (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Between February 19, 2018 when the Dapchi schoolgirls were abducted by supposed Boko Haram insurgents and Wednesday, March 21, 2018, when the news broke that 76 of them had been released, I had offered perspectives on the incident in two articles. The first was titled: “Chibok and Dapchi girls: […]
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Monday, March 19th, 2018
By Jerome-Mario Utomi (AFRICA EXAMINER) – As the nation races toward 2019 general election, many strange things are happening daily in our political space; some heartening and others, undesirable. Particularly echoing on this wavelength is the demand for a robust political partisanship. A move that is aimed at terminating the dearth of leadership that has […]
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Tuesday, March 13th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The government of Lagos state seems to be currently in the eye of the storm over its introduction of a law, a property tax as it were, known as the Land Use Charge Act of 2018, which repeals a similar law of 2001, and consolidates ground rent, tenement rate, and neigbourhood development […]
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Monday, March 5th, 2018
By Jerome-Mario Utomi (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Looking at the ripple reactions that greeted the hate speech bill currently before the Nigerian senate; one will but agree with the words of John F. Kennedy, that ‘a man who creates power makes an indispensable contribution to the nation’s greatness. But the man who questions power make a […]
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Friday, March 2nd, 2018
By Prof. R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – On Thursday 1st March, 2018 President Vladimir Putin of Russia announced that his country was advancing in developing invisible new class of Nuclear weapons, with unlimited capability. This was supposed to be part of his campaign in his efforts to securing another term […]
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Friday, March 2nd, 2018
Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – For the people of Amukwa Community in Nsukka local government Area of Enugu state, South-East Nigeria, Chief Sam Maduka Onyishi, Chairman/Managing Director of Peace Mass Transit Limited, is a special gift and blessing to the locality, Enugu state, and mankind in general. As an Apostle of human empowerment, particularly […]
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Sunday, February 18th, 2018
Photo: Late Prof. Akinwunmi Ishola (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – All Progressives Congress National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has mourned the passing of playwright, author and culture activist, Prof. Akinwunmi Ishola, describing it a huge loss. In a statement by his Media Office, Asiwaju said: “The death of Prof. Akinwunmi Ishola saddens me. It is a […]
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Sunday, February 18th, 2018
By Emmanuel Onwubiko (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian Politicians have never disappointed the reading public with their proliferation of political gimmicks and unbelievable stunts. There are indeed some actions that take place within the political horizons of Nigeria that are so difficult to accurately appreciate from the positive point of view whilst other tendencies that spring […]
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Friday, February 16th, 2018
By Owei Lakemfa This is Valentine week with billions around the world expressing love for their families and loved ones. It coincided with the Christian Ash Wednesday with individuals being told: “Love Thy Neigbour, As Thy Self” even as Jesus loved humanity. However, the message from Palestine, the home of Christianity, was not love, but […]
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Tuesday, February 13th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria`s most vocal and most visible anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), is breaking new grounds in what is generally perceived as a combination of impunity and overzealousness – aided by an executive arm of government that turns a blind eye to some of its questionable endeavours. The controversy […]
