By Prof R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria Although it is still early days to formed a critical assessment on President Buhari and his APC government and it’s major impacts on Nigeria and Africa, it is nevertheless safe to project our expectations and make projections of the future. Many people are very familiar on […]
By Tajudeen Balogun, Head, African Examiner, Nigeria Bureau – The effects on the country and her populace, of many socio-economic gaffes traceable to the immediate past administration in Nigeria; the trailing public comments – condemnation and commendation (on them), will hardly cease in the nearest future. Of course, at its twilight, so many despicable deals […]
By Akintokunbo A Adejumo – One of our problems as a people, as a society, is our intrinsic inability to be sincere, even with ourselves, and from this derives dishonesty, which leads to corruption, deceit, deception and fraud, and of course we know where this eventually leads to, or rather, has led to – the […]
By Prof R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria – The APC political party in Nigeria came on board by defeating the then ruling PDP party on the concept of change. General Muhammad Buhari’s phenomenon was so strong that manyBuhari’s of the so called PDP states were won by APC candidates due largely to […]
By Tajudeen Balogun, Head, African Examiner, Nigeria Bureau If the emergence of Bukola Saraki as the Senate President, despite the opposition of his party remains controversial and unpleasant to (some party loyalists), then, the election of Ike Ekweremadu of the opposition as his Deputy, must be very disgraceful, disturbing and unexpected to not a few. […]
By Prof. R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria – Since General Muhammad Buhari of Nigeria officially took office as President and Commander-in-Chief of Nigeria Army Forces on May 29, 2015 we have noticed his greater involvement in checkmating the dreaded Islamist sect Boko Haram and its insurgencies. He had been to two or more […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu – Only recently, May 29th, 2015 precisely, Enugu state electorates ushered- in Hon. Ifeanyi Lawrence Ugwuanyi, as the 4th Executive governor of the state. IGNATIUS OKPARA in this report, highlights some of the challenges that may likely constitute a cog in the wheel of progress of the new administration. Despite all […]
By Tajudeen Balogun, Head, African Examiner, Nigeria Bureau After surviving a stern supremacy tussle between him and other powerful stakeholders and subsequently re-elected as the FIFA President last Friday, for the fifth time, at the body’s 65th Congress, not a few had concluded that Sepp Blatter was fully back to be in charge of affairs […]
By Prof. R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria Come June 9, 2015 the eighth national Assembly in Nigeria will be inaugurated for a new tenure of four years in accordance to the constitution of Nigeria. The APC party, who currently controls the executive arm, also has a majority in the Senate and in the […]
By Ayo Balogun – The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has challenged President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to swiftly move to declare their assets publicly, consistent with their apparent anti-corruption credentials and their expressed commitments to do so in the best interest of transparency and accountability. SERAP’s request followed the declaration […]
By Prof R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria – If you like you may call the Nigeria new President, Gen Muhammad Buhari, a retired Nigerian soldier or even a former Nigeria Head of State. You may also refer to his abortive and unseccessful attempts in 2003, 2007, 2011 to return to power that was […]
By Tajudeen Balogun, Head, African Examiner, Nigeria Bureau Although, his previous Military regime lasted for about three years – (1983-85). Almost 30 years ago, his Military era was toppled by yet another junta. The takeover was allegedly influenced and made possible by certain powerful individuals, who expected political approach to issues, even when it was […]
By Niyi Ogundiji – The minimum expectation of a man is the provision of the three basic means of livelihood which was recommended by the United Nations (UN) as the right of citizens to life. Any nation that excludes these three basic needs of life: food, shelter and clothing in her reformation is bound to […]
By Tajudeen Balogun, Head, African Examiner, Nigeria Bureau – Just like the Yoruba popular idiomatic expression – ‘agitation back and forth on which direction a door must open’, the weeks of what I seriously regard as needless and useless debates on the so called ignoble roles played by the immediate past National Chairman of the […]
By Prof R.A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria – It is only a few days left to get Gen Muhammad Buhari (GMB), the Nigeria President-Elect, inaugurated as the new President from May 29, 2015. Despite the published information about the state of Nigeria economy, the depressing state of fuel distribution in the country and its […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Abakaliki – The recent stage managed reconciliation between Ebonyi governor, chief Martin Nwancho Elechi, and his Deputy who is also the governor-elect in the state, Engineer Dave Umahi, may have collapsed, as the incoming chief executive of the state, has vowed to probe all financial activities of the outgoing administration in the […]
By Tajudeen Balogun, Head, African Examiner, Nigeria Bureau I imagine the wide and frenzied euphoria; the audacious body languages; the illegal cover up of many sordid deals which are inevitably unfolding; the limitless deceits by the government and top officials (especially political appointees); the irrational and rambling debates and justification by members of the PDP […]
Written by Obinna Akukwe @ObinnaAkukwe – Yaradua! Wake Up! Nigeria is still boiling. I want to use this opportunity of commemorating the 5th year of your demise to tell you that you have slept enough. Since January, I counted the time till this day to wake you up as usual on this anniversary of your […]
By Akintokunbo A Adejumo – As we move closer to handover day to a brand new Federal Government of Nigeria on 29 May 2015, with a mixture of optimism and trepidation, if Nigerians (whether you voted for Buhari or not) think that the problems that have besieged and dragged Nigeria down for several inglorious decades […]
By Prof R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria The entire world around us is in total shambles and Nigeria is certainly no exception. In fact we believe that the situations in Nigeria may have put her at the bottom of the scale of development ladder in many areas. The disparity between what Nigeria should […]
