In my November piece, The enemy within, I paid homage to Comrade Ibrahim Yusuf, the humble labour leader who introduced me to trade unionism. I was fresh from the university and held strongly to certain ideas. For instance, the State Security Services, then known as the Nigeria Security Organisation (NSO)were supposed to be kept at arms length and not allowed […]
“How was Christmas?” “It’s come and gone. Life goes on. We thank God for the gift of life.” “Life will always go on.” “But without life, we can’t have hope.” “Without hope, life has no meaning.” “I am still in a Christmas mood though. I get a chance to rest a lot during holidays” “Where […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Christmas looks so different these days from what it was when I was growing up. It is so different it is almost unrecognizable. In this same country, in the 70s, Christmas was a season of celebration, but also of spiritual upliftment, joy abundant, hope, reaffirmation of faith in the certainty […]
By Eghes Eyieyien BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Naira is taking an unprecedented bashing in our parallel Foreign Exchange Markets. In the Parallel Market, the Dollar sold for as high as N280 and the Pound Sterling N398 some days back. A friend of mine who travelled to the U.S. to attend the child’s graduation […]
By Prof. R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria. As we begin a new year, we would like to thank every community worldwide for their fervent prayers for Nigeria in 2015. Their prayers produced General Muhammad Buhari as the current Nigeria’s President. It will be recalled that President Muhammad Buhari (PMB) is a recycled military […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – So much has been said about the December 12 confrontation between the Nigerian Army and members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria led by Sheik Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, the leader of the Shia in Nigeria. I guess the point has been well-made that there are faults on both sides. There seems […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There is never a scarcity of shocking events, revelations, encounters and experiences in the course of the interesting times we seem destined to live in. But nothing can perhaps be more shocking than a recent encounter I had with a young man. He had remarked quite innocently to my hearing […]
Prof. R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin Nigeria Nigerians, like all other communities around the world this period, are already in some level of Christmas celebrations. Webcan be described as a people having a warm, familiar attitude with the rest of the world and we may have thus become God’s enemy as stated in James […]
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 […]
By Prof. R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria The quest of the Igbo people of Nigeria to be an independent country is not new. Their demand came up strong in 1967 when Col Ojukwu was a military governor of the then Eastern Region of Nigeria. At the time Lt .Col Ojukwu led his people […]
I have been reading some depressing stories about the state of the Obafemi Awolowo University, formerly University of Ife, which provide an equally depressing metaphor for the state of higher education in Nigeria. Great Ife as that university is known to its staff, students and alumni, is probably Nigeria’s first model university in every respect. […]
By Tajudeen Balogun, Head, African Examiner, Nigeria Bureau I have the strong feeling that readers can correctly predict my focus this week. The reason is that besides being a prasticing journalist, I belong to the segment of the trade, who operate exclusively online. Therefore, this makes the protest, opposition and outright condemnation that have trailed […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) “Did they send you your own share of the bush meat?” “Bush meat?” “The lion in the zoo that became bush meat in Jos. “ “What’s my own inside? I don’t know any zoo worker in Jos and how could a lion that was allowed out of its cage and got […]
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 […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – I floated through the stores of a new mall opened in Abuja twelve days ago. It is sprawling; taking one side of the only water/river in Abuja. This ordinarily should have been some public water front park. But the mall has it. The crowds were thick and various food and […]
Akintokunbo A Adejumon – akinadejum@aol.com BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – This is not an academic or professional article about what IGR or taxes are. We already know what they are and the role they play in governance in any country. This is more about our leaders’ attitude and approaches to implementing them effectively, such that […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
