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Wednesday, May 25th, 2016
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government of Nigeria has approved the appointment of the Chief Executives of six information-related parastatals under the Ministry of Information and Culture. The appointments were announced Wednesday in Abuja, by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed. The new Chief Executives are: Mr. Ishaq Modibo Kawu […]
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Wednesday, May 25th, 2016
By Charles Ibekwe The position of the Rational Choice Theory (RCT) of crime is that persons intentionally choose to commit crimes as opposed to being compelled by external factors or influences, and the reason that they choose to commit crime is that they think it will be more rewarding and less costly for them than […]
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Tuesday, May 24th, 2016
By Owei Lakemfa BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The hair-splitting over the teaching of Religious Studies and National Values in Primary and Secondary Schools, continue with the regulatory Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC) entering the fray. In a rather combative statement by its Executive Secretary, Prof. Ismail Junaidu, NERDC described most of the reports on […]
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Monday, May 23rd, 2016
By Adewale Kupoluyi BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At last, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has suspended its nationwide industrial action over the increase in the pump price of petrol, as announced by the Federal Government, a few days ago. After an emergency meeting of its National Executive Council, Comrade Ayuba Wabba and Dr. Peter Ozo-Eson, […]
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Monday, May 23rd, 2016
The Nigeria Labour Congress has suspended the nationwide strike it embarked upon to protest the increase in fuel pump price even as it vowed to resume talk with the Federal government the issue. Mr. Ayuba Wabba’s faction announced the suspension of the strike at an emergency meeting of the NLC National Executive Committee in Abuja […]
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Saturday, May 21st, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Niger Delta Avengers is the name of a new group of militants in the Niger Delta who claim to be different from the former agitators and militants who operated between 2006 and 2009, largely under the umbrella of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND). The title […]
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Friday, May 20th, 2016
By Tajudeen Balogun, Head, African Examiner, Nigeria Bureau Many of the unfolding events relating to Nigeria in the past few weeks – happening within and beyond her (Nigeria) shore, have given the meticulous ones and critically-minded individuals an opportunity to do an in-depth analyses and comparison of the difference between the immediate past President Goodluck […]
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Monday, May 16th, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD *AFRICAN EXAMINER) – With the country moving to its new capital Abuja, the late General Mamman .J. Vatsa wrote: “Keep your new Capital City; It’s too much of a great pity. I am rushing back to my Lagos; Where everyone’s a big boss” One of the big bosses in Lagos was charismatic Ademola […]
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Monday, May 16th, 2016
Message by Brigadier General Paul Boroh (Rtd) Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme on Issac Boroh Day, 16th May, 2016. Today, May 16, the Issac Boro Day is a well deserved commemorative date for the late Major Issac Jasper Adaka Boro, the legend of Niger Delta […]
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Monday, May 16th, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The deadly dimension the ongoing onslaught by the Fulani herdsmen in the country calls for an urgent attention before it completely gets out of hand. Over the years, Nigerians have been generous as to allow herdsmen to navigate their domain but this has resulted into their farmlands being destroyed, family […]
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Saturday, May 14th, 2016
By Philip Agbese Labour finally marshalled the courage to stand against the people. The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Unions Congress (TUC) are calling for strikes and widespread protests against the deregulation of the downstream sector of the petroleum sector as implied by the removal of subsidy that brought petrol to N145 to the […]
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Saturday, May 14th, 2016
By Leo Igwe The recent arrest of six young men in Nigeria for the ‘supposed crime’ of homosexuality has once again demonstrated the misplaced priorities of the Buhari-led government. The arrest casts serious doubt on its supposed commitment to transforming Nigeria. Going by recent developments, hope is fading very fast and disillusionment is setting in […]
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Saturday, May 14th, 2016
By. Prof R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria The recent increase in pump price of a litre of petrol from N 86. 50 to N145. 00 is not even a referendum on the new APC in government of Buhari but an index of institutional failure. The politicians are allowed to make any level of […]
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Friday, May 13th, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No doubt that the Director-General of the National Pensions Commission (Pencom),Chinelo Anohu-Amazu is currently in hot waters even as a petition to President Mohammed Buhari against her rampaging acts of indiscretion and lawlessness worry stakeholders in the industry. It would be recalled that a recent report, arising from the fear […]
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Friday, May 13th, 2016
So say the co–chairs at the recently concluded World Economic Forum on Africa which was held in Kigali, Rwanda from May 11th -13th, 2016. Rwanda, the land of many hills is as beautiful as ever as it welcomed 14 African heads of state and many leading African business persons who converged to discuss how to […]
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Friday, May 13th, 2016
“We have got the leaders of some fantastically corrupt countries coming to Britain… Nigeria and Afghanistan, possibly the two most corrupt countries in the world”, UK Prime Minister David Cameron was caught on tape telling the Queen ahead of the anti-corruption summit organized by the UK Government, this week, which was attended by Nigerian President, […]
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Monday, May 9th, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There is anger in the land. The horrific massacre of people in the Ukpabi Nimbo Community in the Uzo-Uwani, Enugu State has put the country on the boil. Coming on the heels of similar attacks in parts of the country, Fulani leaders in the area had alerted the inhabitants that […]
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Friday, May 6th, 2016
“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.” […]
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Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016
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 […]
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Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016
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 […]
