By Tajudeen Balogun, Head, African Examiner, Nigeria Bureau – Before it, there had been catalogues of terrorists’ restiveness in different countries across the globe. But the September 11, 2001 otherwise referred to as 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, United States (US) till date despite the lingering global insurgent attacks, remained the most […]
Akintokunbo A Adejumo – I always take exception and umbrage at hearing that slogan “Ibadan ki sin eniyan le’meji……”. (Ibadan people do not serve the same leader twice). What about other Oyo State people? It is as preposterous as it is denigrating. The insinuation and connotation, from the literal translation, is that Ibadan people worship […]
Written by Obinna Akukwe – The construction of 2nd Niger Bridge through a Public Private Partnership involving Julius Berger -NSIA Consortium and tolling the Igbo people for 25 years thereafter is another 419 on the Biafran Igbo citizens of South East Nigeria. According to the terms of this fraudulent business, the project is a Design, […]
By Prof. R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria – The Nigeria general election to select a new president for 2015-2019 has been slated by the electoral body in Nigeria, INEC, for February 2015. The two main political parties have selected their candidates as the incumbent president from the PDP, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and from […]
By Akintokunbo A Adejumo – Shortly after the coup of December 1983 in Nigeria, in which the seemingly no-nonsense duo of General Muhammadu Buhari and General Babatunde Idiagbon took over by force the government of Nigeria from the corrupt and inept Shehu Shagari-led civilian regime, I was invited by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to their Winnipeg, […]
By Prof R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria As the world order goes through necessary and continuous fundamental shifts and changes the role of each community will be changing. Hence in the coming year 2015 Nigeria will face many new challenges, a number of them will just be the continuation and accumulation of unresolved […]
By Tajudeen Balogun, Head, African Examiner, Nigeria Bureau, Lagos – The tradition in the Nigerian political circle and orientation among the political office holders despite torrent criticism and condemnation for a change, have remained discouraging, offensive to discerning sensibilities and fallen below the best and global standard. In spite of the persistent public outcry and demand to serve due punishment (s) on any erring […]
Title: Medicinal Plants and Traditional Medicine in Sierra Leone ISBN: 978-4917—0609-1: 978-1-4917-0610-7: 978-14917-0611-4 Publisher: iUniverse LLC Date published: November 2013 Author: Dr. Cyrus Macfoy Reviewer: Roland Bankole Marke I’m hopeful, if not delighted about writing reviews of books written by Sierra Leonean authors that are increasingly making encouraging and steady progress. Though the culture of […]
By Tajudeen Balogun, Head, African Examiner, Nigeria Bureau, Lagos It is over week today the senior National team – Super Eagles painfully crashed out of the 2015 African Cup of Nations (AFCON) competition, having ended up in draw in their last qualifying match in Akwa Ibom, with the underdog (at least to Nigeria may be?), […]
By Prof. R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria The United States of America USA is by far one of the most multi-racial communities in the world, and following closely by other countries like Britain, France and Italy. These are countries with history of slave traders and forced labour colonial masters in plantations to advance […]
Akintokunbo A Adejumo It always comes down to this. How selfish, greedy and insensitive can some of these our rulers be? They are parasites feeding fat on the blood of the people, causing untold miseries and are like malignant tumours that just will not go away. Eight years as a governor of an oil-rich state, […]
By Tajudeen Balogun, Head, African Examiner, Nigeria Bureau, Lagos If lost or dazed by the intrigues trailing the acclaimed “healthy” state of the Nigerian economy; its ‘professed’ impressive performance statistics and with the latest alarming and worrisome warning and alert on the same, I believe there will be some good ‘Samaritans’ who may wish to offer a […]
By Prof. R.A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria Primarily I am an advocacy of zero tolerance to gun in every society. I also believe that even the police should carry arms only as a last result. This has been my position for a decent society run and powered by our faith and our conscience. There […]
By Akintokunbo A Adejumo The news going round is that Nigeria is broke. I, for one, do not believe that fallacy. However, if the treasury is indeed empty or nearing emptiness, then what it means is that this happened because the government, this government and past governments had not exercised good fiscal, economic responsibility and […]
By Tajudeen Balogun, Head, African Examiner, Nigeria Bureau Just like other young Nigerians, they had looked forward to another bubbling and fulfilled week in their educational pursuit. Alas! The day was cut short; lives abruptly terminated by the deadly attack of the evil ones, leaving the families and friends of the victims as well as […]
By Prof. R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria Despite the unhidden and known fact that President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan (GEJ) of Nigeria would declare for a re-election in the 2015, when he finally declared for the same on Tuesday November 11 2014 it was a fever pitched event for residents of Abuja and its […]
By Tajudeen Balogun, Head, African Examiner, Nigeria Bureau, Lagos It is very unfortunate that certain ruling class in this country does not learn from the history or the past errors committed by others. Therefore, it is unimaginable and unthinkable that at this time, that the country is held back, agonized and left in a total confusion due […]
By Prof R.A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria On Tuesday November 4, 2014 many citizens of the United States of America, USA, trooped out to vote in many of its 50 States. Only about 40% turn out was recorded but the results gave the Republicans the control of the two legislative houses and making the […]
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu The ongoing cold war between Enugu state Governor, Sullivan Chime, and the Deputy Senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, over who represents Enugu West senatorial district in 2015 has worsened, and continue to assume new twist almost on daily basis. Presently, virtually all members of the National Assembly (NASS) from the state, and […]
By Prof. R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria By now, even members of the ruling party in Nigeria since May 29 1999 PDP should know that all is not going to go well in the direction their leadership is taking Nigeria down the road of confusion, decamping, denial of ceasefire by Boko Haram and […]
