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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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, […]
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 […]
“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.” […]
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 […]
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 […]
By Owei Lakemfa BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Barack Obama was a phenomenon when he turned to politics. His Presidential victory seemed assured that July 24, 2008 day he stood in a street to address over 200,000 Germans in Berlin, in the “Victory Column Speech”. It was a trip to Europe to test if the […]
By Bamikole Omishore BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The repeal and re-enactment of the Nigerian Railway Corporation Act CAP N129, LFN 2004, 2015 (SB. 001) is targeted at re-vitalizing and enhancing the operational framework and removal of the impediments that hindered the international best practices within the rail transport sector. This Bill is currently at […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The tiny island of Cuba with no major natural resources, military prowess or strong economy, produced two of the most famous and charismatic leaders of the last one hundred years; Ernesto Che Guevara and Fidel Castro Ruiz. Both have lasting legacies and assured places in world history as people who […]
By Reuben Abati “No matter how far the town, there is another beyond it” – Fulani Proverb BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There has been so much emotionalism developing around the subject of the recent clashes between nomadic pastoralists and farmers, and the seeming emergence of the former as the new Boko Haram, forbidding not […]
