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Monday, December 7th, 2015
Baltimore, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bayelsa state governor and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson, has called for the immediate withdrawal of soldiers deployed to monitor the ongoing governorship election. He specifically accused them of colluding with the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) to […]
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Sunday, December 6th, 2015
A day after the present set of Ministers took oath of office, Nigerians took to twitter to recommend books they think will be of use to them and provide necessary knowledge and guidance suitable for the discharge of their various assignments. Tolu Ogunlesi initiated the idea with the tag: #ReadingListNG, and a request that the […]
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Saturday, December 5th, 2015
By Tajudeen Balogun, Head, African Examiner, Nigeria Bureau The truism “if we do not kill corruption; corruption will kill us” is among other similarly mind probing, synonymous to the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari. The declaration to Mr. President is as good as drawing a battle line between him, his administration and sharp practices. In fact, […]
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Sunday, November 29th, 2015
One of the finest persons I have been privileged to know is Odia Ofeimun: the man has a clean heart, he is completely incapable of malice, and in the face of all odds, he has a sunny view of life, add to that his incandescent mind, his absolute brilliance from which has poured forth a […]
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Friday, November 27th, 2015
“You look sleepy” “My brother, let’s just say I slept at a fuel station, looking for fuel.” “For which of the women in your life, because I hear these days, to please a woman in Nigeria, you must be ready to supply the three major things lacking in the land: money, fuel, and happiness.” “Leave […]
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Thursday, November 26th, 2015
I love Kano. It holds some of my best memories. It was the city that introduced me to trade unionism. I was a youth corper and had been rejected by some employers when the then Civil Service Technical Workers Union offered me a place for my primary assignment. My boss, Comrade Ibrahim Yusuf, taught me […]
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Wednesday, November 25th, 2015
By Uche Igwe BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – I was invited to a workshop last week to review the level of progress in the compliance of government agencies to the Freedom of Information Act. It was a crucial opportunity for me to bring myself up to speed with some of the happenings within the civil […]
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2015
By Prof R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria I was at St Peter Primary school Felele Lokoja for the governorship election that held across Kogi State on Saturday November 21, 2015. It was very peaceful and orderly and less emotional. I already expressed my concern on many issues and posted them on my facebook. […]
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Monday, November 23rd, 2015
By Babs Ajayi BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Abubakar Audu is gone – I mean dead. He is now part of our past and will forever be referred to in the past tense. He left unceremoniously; he did not even assume his throne as governor of Kogi State. Audu left in a hurry and without warning, […]
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Friday, November 20th, 2015
Aung San Suu Kyi writes in Letters from Burma: “I have never ceased to be moved by the sense of the world lying quiescent and vulnerable, waiting to be awakened by the light of the new day quivering just beyond the horizon…” That new day and awakening arrived on November 8 on Burma’s (Myanmar) 2015 […]
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Wednesday, November 18th, 2015
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Some days ago, I woke up to find that someone, or group had decided to change my country. It was there on Facebook; a supposed map of a new country called Biafra. I was neither consulted nor my opinion sought. I am not also aware that the Ijaws, who are […]
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Monday, November 16th, 2015
By Babs Ajayi BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – When a text message “flew” into the phone of Mr. Dele Momodu asking him to help tell the “tale of a woman in deep pain and anguish for variety of reasons” you wonder from whose perspective Mr. Momodu reported the encounters. The same woman who cleverly avoided […]
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Sunday, November 15th, 2015
By Daniel Iworiso-Markson BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Democracy is all about the people. During campaigns and at the election proper, the people exercise their power of preference in determining the choices they want as their leaders. Although the new leaders so elected consequently exercise powers through the institutions of government, power still resides with […]
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Sunday, November 15th, 2015
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ministers from seventy countries camped in France for three days from this Sunday. It was humanity’s War Cabinet meeting for the third time this year. It was like a country being under carpet bombing, and the Executive debating how to scramble jets into the sky to mitigate the disaster. For […]
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Friday, November 13th, 2015
By Tajudeen Balogun, Head, African Examiner, Nigeria Bureau Besides the anti-corruption campaign, another issue that has attracted an overwhelming public attention as well as aroused so many interest, in the present administration, is the nomination, Senate’s screening and subsequent confirmation and later, the inauguration of the new Ministers and unveiling of their portfolios. The keen […]
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Friday, November 13th, 2015
“Have you congratulated our new Ministers?” “I am still thinking about it, actually. I don’t know whether to congratulate them or to commiserate or to pity some of them. They have merged Ministries that need not be merged. Some Perm Secs are now floating. Six months and this is it?” “What kind of talk is […]
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Tuesday, November 10th, 2015
By Prof. R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – By definition a minister without portfolio is either a minister appointed by government with no specifically defined responsibilities or a minister who does not head a particular ministry. President Buhari got the Nigeria Senate’s approval for all the 36 ministerial nominees […]
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Tuesday, November 10th, 2015
By Ayo Balogun, Lagos BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Tuesday begged President Muhammadu Buhari to pay the over N30 billion the Federal Government is owing the state on road infrastructure to enable him accelerate the development of Lagos. Ambode spoke after carrying out inspection tour of Apapa, Ladipo […]
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Monday, November 9th, 2015
By Babs Ajaiyi “Ah, it is you again, Jona!” “Na me sir.” “You really knocked on the door so hard.” “I was not sure if anyone was home.” “We are always at home, no room for waka about or overseas trip; the treasury is already empty.” “Don’t worry, for as long as oil is flowing […]
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Monday, November 9th, 2015
By Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, With the abysmal failure by Chief Nyesom Wike the Tribunal sacked Governor of Rivers State in his one single futile project: to run down his predecessor, mentor and benefactor, former governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi which he has carried out so religiously since he was erroneously declared the Governor of Rivers State […]
