By Leo Igwe BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – She is from Zimbabwe in Southern Africa but currently lives in Canada. Rudo, 30 is a skeptic with a mission, a salient ‘silent’ mission to foster skeptical rationality among African women. She describes her home country Zimbabwe as a place where ‘the religious rhetoric is deafening’ and […]
By Femi Fabiyi (femif826@gmail.com) Nigerians are one of the most religious people in the world. By noon on Fridays, Muslims all over the country close shops and offices, and head to the mosques for prayers. On Sundays, streets and shopping malls are deserted while Christians are glued to churchprograms, praying for Shelter, Prosperity, Grace, Wisdom and […]
By Bamikole Omishore NALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Potter Stewart, a renown Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court who played a significant role in the interpretation of Civil Rights laws, coined the basic phrase: “Fairness is what Justice really is.” This phrase, conceived to propel the notion of every individual’s equitable right under […]
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Despite the fact that sexual violence or assault, especially rape had been a serious crime punishable by law in Nigeria, the unholy act had continued to assumed an alarming dimension in parts of south- East Nigeria, almost on daily basis. It is no news that rape […]
By Leo Igwe BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Zambian capital, Lusaka, has been engulfed by crisis. Cases of ritual murders have been reported in the past months and locals have accused foreign nationals of being behind these savage killings. Angry mobs have gone on rampage burning houses and looting the shops of foreigners. Soldiers […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The monthly Federation Accounts Allocation Committee, FAAC, meeting was held the other day in Abuja, with the representatives of state governments again cap in hand, asking for their share of federal revenue – read: oil revenue, or better still, national cake, or our money. A paragraph in the report by […]
By Akintokunbo A Adejumo (akinadejum@aol.com) The Greater London Authority Elections – where Londoners will vote for a new Mayor of London and Members of the London Assembly – is on 5th May 2016. Yet, I, members of my family and many Londoners (including anybody who belongs to the British Commonwealth) voted today, 21st April, 2016, about […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Holy Bible commands humanity “Thou shall not covet thy neigbour’s house, thou shall not covet thy neigbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neigbour’s” (Exodus 20:17) That precisely was what Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu did on […]
By Olawale Rasheed BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Reading several commentaries harshly judging President Muhammadu Buhari often elicits strange introspection for me.You now find “wailing wailers” across party lines and from unusual quarters.I have been asking myself if the time is truly ripe to rate Buhari’s tenure as President of the republic. My introspection is […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There is an on-going struggle for the soul of Brazil, the world’s fifth largest country which has become a model of how to rescue millions from abject poverty. The battles may well turn bloody because it is not strictly a fight over constitutionalism, corruption or the economy; it is primarily, […]
Leo Igwe BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – What’s really going on in Zambia? What is this prayer thing all about? I mean, what has come over President Lungu and his government. It seems prayer is the ‘solution’ to every problem this country is facing. Is this due to lack of political ideas or vision? This […]
By Haruna Mohammed Salisu Daily Trust newspaper of April 4, 2016 unearthed a damning story where ex-governors and their deputies, now serving ministers and senators, loot their economically crippled states in the name of “pension”. The report also unveiled that the ex-governors and their deputies, now serving senators and ministers, are also entitled to two […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square. Michelle Obama I laughed and cackled ceaselessly. I have not had such a long, healthy cackle […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – During the Jonathan administration, an outspoken opposition spokesperson had argued that Nigeria was on auto-pilot, a phrase that was gleefully even if ignorantly echoed by an excitable opposition crowd. Deeper reflection should have made it clear even to the unthinking that there is no way any country can ever be […]
By Leo Igwe From spreading the ‘good news of theism’, he is now propagating the ‘gospel of atheism’ and from being the ‘Saul’ of charismatic Christianity, Keith, a former pastor from Namibia in Southern Africa is now a fire brand ‘Paul’ of skepticism and an unrelenting apostle of freethought in his country. Recently I had […]
By Prof R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria In this era of change, gambling, magic and other surprises are being born again, in the hands of desperate Nigerian politicians. Illegality, outright evil, deceptions and intrigues now also on the increase and hellbent on the destruction of all of our common sense. Our focus is […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The move by the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) to impeach South African President Jacob Zuma for corruption, was bound to end in failure. This is because the ruling African National Congress (ANC) had ahead of the April 5, 2016 motion, backed Zuma. For the impeachment to sail through, 267 votes […]
“I saw something yesterday. I thought it was a joke.” “What happened?” “Nigerians and their sense of humour; we always manage to squeeze laughter out of every situation, no matter how sad.” “I don’t like the suspense. What is it?” “I attended a wedding engagement ceremony.” “And?” “When the groom’s family was presenting gifts to […]
By Philip Agbese BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – If I were offered the position of the Minister of State for Petroleum at the time the current occupant, Dr Ibe Kachikwu got the job, there is almost a guarantee that I would have found a non-offensive way of turning it down and “codedly” request to serve […]
By Olufemi Idowu Samuel BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The making of the duo of Mr Femi Adesina and Mallam Garba Shehu as media anchors to President Muhammadu Buhari did not come by happenstance. At different times, the two gentlemen had paid their dues in the media world, blazing the trail at critical times in […]
