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Monday, May 8th, 2017
AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has congratulated Emmanuel Macron on his election as the next President of France. In a congratulatory letter to the President-elect, Prof. Osinbajo said he received the news of the election of the 39-year old Macron with satisfaction, noting that under successive governments, the relations between Nigeria and […]
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Wednesday, May 3rd, 2017
By Sufuyan Ojeifo Two weeks ago, as I was moving some of my personal effects – mainly books – from the office, I had to, in my own interest, resort to full disclosure of the contents of the ghana-must-go bags to my gateman, who usually helps me to convey heavy luggage into my residence. I […]
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Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017
By Owei Lakemfa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) The Covenant University, Sango Ota, is like most of the private universities established by religious missions, one of the costliest in the country. A former student, Mr. Vmamh Lonngji Felix who sued the university for wrongful expulsion, told the court that in less than four years, his parents spent over […]
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Monday, May 1st, 2017
By Austyn Ogannah (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Watchers and followers of American history would readily admit that one of the most enduring scandals of the Ronald Reagan Administration was the clandestine sale of arms to Iran, at the time a sworn enemy of the US, with some of the proceeds sent to a South American Rebel […]
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Saturday, April 29th, 2017
By Owei Lakemfa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Republic of South Sudan, the young, land-locked African country which became independent of Sudan on July 9, 2011 is edging closer to genocide. The conflict which began in December 2013 when President Salva Kirr accused Vice President Reik Machar of trying to overthrow him, has claimed over 300,000 […]
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Tuesday, April 25th, 2017
Photo caption: Kaduna state governor, Nasir El-Rufai By Sufuyan Ojeifo “Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” John Donne Southern Kaduna is a microcosm of Nigeria. It is, by any stretch of the imagination, emblematic of […]
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Tuesday, April 18th, 2017
By Owei Lakemfa Never in the history of the country has a major examination body set a date for national examinations and been incapable of even producing the examination questions, not to talk about the examinations holding. The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) headed by a professor not only failed to hold the Mock […]
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Monday, April 17th, 2017
By Sufuyan Ojeifo (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – I have, over the years, held the State Security Service (SSS) otherwise known as the Department of State Services (DSS) in reverential awe for its yeoman job, which has the citizenry as the focus of its security architecture. Talking about the security of a nation means investing concerns in […]
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Friday, April 14th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The China I returned from a fortnight ago, is a bullet train rifling through the universe towards unprecedented development. The Africans had through Egypt and Nubia, evolved and built the foundations of modern civilization. The Greeks who studied in Egyptian universities, had developed Western Thought and Civilization. The British, riding on the […]
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Friday, April 7th, 2017
Photo caption: Gov. Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State, South west, Nigeria By Idowu Samuel Nigerians, by now, should be sufficiently convinced that the economic recession gripping their country for some months is a blessing in disguise. If anything, the recession has re-invented the worldview of the governments both at the federal and state levels on economic […]
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Friday, April 7th, 2017
By Owei Lakemfa A calamity hit Africa late March. A conference, crucial to its immediate needs, was slated from March 23-28, 2017. It was primarily for African development, and involved all African Ministers for Finance, Planning and Economic Development as well as development partners and civil society groups. Organized by the African Union (AU) and […]
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Thursday, April 6th, 2017
Photo caption: Kemi Adeosun, Nigeria’s minister of finance (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria is struggling with local poverty and grassroots under-development. Economically, depressed nations face several challenges. Uniquely, economic depression is not of the same dimension across nations. Within each country, the challenges also vary from States to States, and within States, from local government or counties […]
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Tuesday, April 4th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The puerile announcement by the Indigenous People of Biafra that it will boycott the Special Board of Inquiry set up by the Nigerian Army to investigate allegations of right abuses is both laughable and saddening at the same time. It is laughable because it exposed the comical side of the fraud that […]
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Tuesday, April 4th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – I was taking a train in Nigeria for the second time in my life. I have taken trains including high-speed or bullet ones. But these were in Europe, America and Asia. It was not that we had no trains in Nigeria; in fact long stretches of railways crisscrossing the country had been […]
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Monday, April 3rd, 2017
…threatens to Invade Kirikiri Prisons (AFRICAN EXAMINER) From the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), in Abuja on Monday, came a 24 hours ultimatum within which a Special Offences Mobile Court in Lagos, should release 13 students of the University of Lagos, currently being detained at the Kirikiri Maximum Prisons. NANS threatened to invade the […]
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Thursday, March 30th, 2017
By Dr. Peter Ekwueme (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – It was laughable that rivals would resort to the gutter to press against the front line governorship aspirant for the upcoming Anambra State gubernatorial election, Comrade Dr Tony Okey Nwoye. The online rant by one Aniagbaso is even more so. In this era of social media, misfits sit […]
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Monday, March 27th, 2017
Picture Caption: Chairman Senate Committee on FCT, Senator Dino Melaye By Akintokunbo A Adejumo, akinadejum@aol.com I have written many times on a singularity, or perhaps we should call it a genetic aberration or bane of development and progress in our dear country – it is the inability to find the Truth; nobody speaks the Truth; […]
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Sunday, March 26th, 2017
By Olawale Rasheed (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The political class thrives on tough competition for political power. From developing to developed world, struggle for control of state power marks the political elite as the most vicious and deadly. Yet there should be a time to let go. In the settled democracies, there is normally tough, rough […]
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Saturday, March 25th, 2017
By Owei Lakemfa Descendants of the Herero and Nama people of Namibia on Thursday May 16, 2017 stepped into an American District Court in Manhattan. It was the first time in 109 years that the world would, through their descendants, hear the voices of over 100,000 Africans massacred in their ancestral home by German colonialists […]
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Tuesday, March 21st, 2017
By Owei Lakemfa I cannot get the picture of Mrs. Esther Gadimah off my mind. A man carried the old woman in his hands like a baby. She was one of the pensioners that had come to the Benin City verification centre of the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate. She looked frail, worn-out, resigned, sick and […]
