BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Immediate past president of Cote d’ Voire, Laurent Gbagbo was on January 28, 2016 hurled before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague charged with crimes against humanity. He had already spent five years in jail awaiting trial by a court that ordinarily has no jurisdiction to try him […]
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu The Economic and Financial crimes commission EFCC, has apprehended a fake Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation NNPC staff,identified as Mr. Raymond Anene, Odika over his alleged involvement in a case of conspiracy and obtaining money by false pretence. Sources at the Enugu zonal office of the Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, hinted on Tuesday […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Catholic priests in Nigeria have always captured the public imagination, some of them have served in government positions, some were prominent in the fight and struggle for democracy, some of them have proved their mettle as poets, teachers, musicians, social critics, and public affairs commentators, but Rev. Fr. Ejike Camillus […]
By Babs Ajayi BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former President Olusegun Obasanjo recently wrote a letter to the Senate President Mr. Bukola Saraki and his House of Representatives’ counterpart Mr. Yakubu Dogara about mismanagement, funds abuse, and misappropriation of resources, unnecessary purchase of vehicles and over-blown wages and allowances at the National Assembly. Obasanjo noted […]
By Uche Igwe BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – I have just been informed that the Nigerian Supreme Court has upheld and affirmed the PDP candidate in the last governorship election, Mr Nyesom Wike as a validly elected governor. As the apex court of the land, that ruling lays to rest a protracted legal battle between him […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – My criticisms of the excesses of the online phenomenon in terms of its brazen abuse in an unregulated environment has often made me the target of attacks, with many insisting on quoting the opening paragraph of a piece I once wrote along these lines as if it is a memorial […]
By Nelson Ekujumi BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As a keen observer and commentator on Nigeria’s politics, one is at a loss to understand the reasons, though not yet communicated on how the Supreme Court arrived at its judgement which upheld the electoral victory of Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state in view of what […]
By Prof. R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin Nigeria As thinking human beings, we have an unlimited capacity to find excuses, to discover ingenious and innovative ways to distance the perpetrator from the ill acts, to transform our societies and the minds of its people, or to build bridges across the oceans. They are better […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Turkish leader, Tayyip Erdogan decided to change his country’s ceremonial Presidency to an executive one. So he told his countrymen “There are already examples in the world. You can see it when you look at Hitler’s Germany. There are later examples in various other countries” But he came under international […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Something sad has happened and is happening, and is getting worse in our society: the decline of public intellectualism. And so I ask, where are the public intellectuals? Once upon a time in this country, the public arena was dominated by a ferment of ideas, ideas that pushed boundaries, destroyed […]
“See what your friends are writing” “Who?” “Your fellow columnists. See how they are attacking the Minister of Interior, General Abdulrahman Dambazau, just because an orderly helped to shine his shoes in public.” “I really don’t see what the hoopla is all about” “Me too” “I think many of our people just like to talk […]
By Eric Ojo, Abuja BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The fight against Boko Haram in Nigeria by the military is strongly undermined by the spate of corruption within its defence administrative and operational structure, a new report by Transparency International (TI) has said. The report noted that the defence corruption in Nigeria which is fueling […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Eritrea is a relatively unknown African country. Little news filters out. In October 2012, I wanted to pay with a hundred dollar bill in a Washington supermarket, and the cashier declined. He asked me to pay with a smaller denomination, which I did not have. Noticing his features, I asked […]
By Tajudeen Balogun, Head, African Examiner, Nigeria Bureau BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – It started like a child play. When the news first hit the airwaves Tuesday afternoon that the copy of the proposed 2016 Appropriation Bill has disappeared from where it was kept in the Senate, many Nigerians did not expect the raging volumes […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – January 15 every year is Nigeria’s Armed Forces Remembrance Day: wreaths are laid, statements are made, soldiers, government officials and the Nigerian Legion attend parades, pigeons symbolizing peace are released, a dinner is organized for widows of fallen soldiers and there is so much talk about death and dying for […]
By Babs Ajayi BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The governorship election in Bayelsa State was recently concluded after a failed and abandoned one late last year. It was full of spat, blood, broken limbs, damaged properties, burnt houses, battered victims and murdered opponents. It was a fight-to-finish, to use that pedestrian phrase, and, produced mass […]
By Prof R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria Certain individuals have ignored God, though in their minds they must know that God has always been there, somewhere. But where and why can God not be caught on camera? Because of the unseen nature many peopke prefer living a reckless and selfish life denouncing him; […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – I was on my way back from Botswana, after attending a conference organized by the Africa Leadership Forum (ALF). This was sometime in the 90s, on that same trip was Professor Tekena Tamuno, the eminent historian of blessed memory. We boarded an Air Afrique flight from Johannesburg to Abidjan, where […]
By Babs Ajayi BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The current National Assembly is heavily anti-change and pro-corruption. Most of them are stuck in the past and still prefer the way things were during the David Mark-led Senate years, a free-for-all and grabby time. The Assembly has budgeted billions of naira to pamper themselves in 2016. […]
By Tajudeen Balogun, Head, African Examiner, Nigeria Bureau I must confess as a journalist and writer, the outgoing week is one of the most news ‘events-filled and thrilling’ to me. The issues, which are distinct from one another, unfolded either simultaneously, or one after the other. Talk about the ‘August’ visitor’s in our midst (just […]
