BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria is in a new phase, a difficult period when thieves and looters makes it look like it pays to steal, consider it acceptable to stand up to the state and plead innocent despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, feels good to brag about what they have stolen and show […]
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 Babs Ajayi BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Billions of dollars and billions of naira were stolen during the Jonathan kleptocracy, and now reports are emerging how the looting took centre stage during the corruption-driven administration of Jonathan. Jonathan was at the centre of the cash-sharing scam and so far his name has been mentioned […]
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 Babs Ajayi BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mr. Dele Momodu took the private matter and domestic dispute between David Adeleke (a/k/a Davido) and the mother of his child, who is a cousin of Momodu, Sophia Momodu, to the public space on December 30, 2015 when he uploaded the video recordings he shot at the Lagos […]
By Babs Ajayi BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The governorship candidate of the APC in the inconclusive election in Bayelsa State, Mr. Timipre Sylva bought a full page advert in the Nation newspaper of Thursday, December 17, 2015 to congratulate President Buhari on his 73rd birthday. This is a congratulatory birthday advertisement from a candidate […]
Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It’s self-defense. It’s patriotism…Joe Biden Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual; the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country…Karl Kraus The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference…Bess Myerson A few in our society […]
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, […]
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 […]
By Babs Ajayi BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The environmental activist, writer, dramatist and human rights campaigner Kenule Saro-Wiwa was killed 20 years ago today by the Nigerian maximum ruler and confirmed kleptocrat and thief, General Sani Abacha for his dogged fight and demand for the preservation of the Ogoni in the Niger Delta and […]
