By Eric Ojo The Police Service Commission (PSC) has directed the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Abubakar to carry out a thorough investigation on the alleged humiliation of a female police officer who was stripped naked by a businessman while performing her duty in Onitsha, Anambra State. The Commission warned that it would […]
Kano State has the highest number of hard drug traffickers in Nigeria, says the Chairman, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Alhaji Ahmadu Giade. Giade disclosed this on Monday while on a visit to Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos at the State House, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria. The NDLEA boss told newsmen that Kano State has […]
By Femi Kehinde, Professor Wale Oladipo has been sworn-in as substantive National Secretary of the Bamanga Tukur-led Peoples Democratic Party in connection with last Friday’s judgment of the Federal High Court, Abuja. Prof. Oladipo replaces Chief Remi Akitoye who has been in acting capacity as national secretary since June 20. He was nominated as national […]
Femi Kehinde The Conference of National Political Parties (CNPP) today blast Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, calling on her to resign forthwith for mismanaging the economy. In a statement signed by National Publicity Secretary Osita Okechukwu, CNPP said, “Otherwise, if not for corruption, what is the economic sense […]
By Eric Ojo Human Rights Writers’ Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has blamed the gruesome mass killings of innocent students of the Yobe College of Agriculture in North East Nigeria at the weekend by suspected armed Islamic insurgents on security lapses and negligence on the part of the security operatives in the state. The association said […]
The pilot newspaper of Saturday, September 28, 2013, embarked on a mission of utmost mendacity and blackmail on the people of Abia State and further malign the person of Governor T A Orji, and as it is usual with such odious hatchet jobs, they employed highly unethical modus operandi to attain their aim. Unfortunately for […]
Voters in Cameroon went to the polls on Monday in local and parliamentary elections expected to be dominated by supporters of President Paul Biya, one of Africa’s longest-serving leaders. Biya, 80, has ruled over Central Africa’s largest economy for three decades after coming to power in 1982 following the resignation of his predecessor. His Cameroon […]
As the world marks the International Right to Know Day, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has vowed to mobilize the civil society against the Federal Government if the government of President Goodluck Jonathan did not drop threat of attack social media. It said “any such threat can only continue to strangle freedom of […]
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has described the killing of dozens of students at the College of Agriculture, Gujba, in Yobe State as ignoble, wicked and horrendous. He said the latest act, coming barely two months after a similar incidence at the Government Secondary School, Mamudo, also in Yobe State, […]
Making a surprise appearance in The SCOAN, Nollywood superstar Jim Iyke entered quietly and unannounced, joining worshippers from around the world as they listened to the inspiring message from renowned Prophet T.B. Joshua. As The SCOAN’s Wise Men moved through the congregation in prayer, the lightning of God located Iyke and he was no longer […]
The “gob-smacking” revelation by the Lagos state governor, Babatunde Fashola as reported in some Nigerian newspapers of 23 September, 2013 that Lagosians fritter away a whopping sum of thirty-six billion naira on parties and other pleasures yearly throws up trenchantly the inorganic culture of waste, frivolity, hedonism and epicureanism in Nigeria. The inordinate celebration of, […]
The African Examiner President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote has called on developing nations to lay emphasis on technical and vocational education as a tool for accelerated industrial development and growth. Speaking at the Global Education First Initiative Anniversary & Learning for All Round Table held in New York, the United States, Dangote said that developing nations need […]
By Femi Kehinde Contrary to the insinuations by some Northern Governors that President Jonathan signed one-term pact with them, the President yesterday denied ever signing agreement with anybody. “I have not signed agreement with anybody. If I have signed agreement, they would have shown you.” He stated this at the periodic presidential media chat […]
By Femi Kehinde The deputy governor of Kogi State Yomi Awoniyi escaped unhurt on Sunday in an accident which involved his convoy on the Abuja-Lokoja highway. This came barely a year after his boss; Capt. Idris Wada was involved in a ghastly motor accident on Lokoja-Ajaokuta road. The deputy governor attended a wedding ceremony of the son of his predecessor in […]
Outcry and condemnation have continued to trail Sunday’s Boko Haram’s Attack on Yobe state College of Education leaving about 40 students dead. The European Union describes the incident as horrific even as it promised to help Nigeria in her fight against terrorism. Vice President of the European Commission, Catherine Ashton, said in a statement “the […]
Ignatius Okpara, Enugu The people of Ugwuaji Awkananaw, in Enugu south local government area of Enugu state have threatened to drag the Nigeria Army to court over the alleged role of some of its officers from 82 Division Enugu in a land dispute. The community in a petition raised and signed by its counsel, Barrister […]
By Daniel Danquah Damptey Electricity Company of Ghana has done the unthinkable. In fact, they have done the abominable. It harbours a lot of Boko Harem and Al-Qaeda in its belly. If I had my own way, the entire management staff would be taken to the nearest shooting range and summarily executed. Nobody should doubt my […]
…Unveils Port Harcourt as UNESCO 2014 World Book Capital City Rivers State Governor and Chairman of Nigeria Governors Forum Rotimi Amaechi over the weekend in New Jersey bagged African Writers Quintessence award for exemplary leadership. The writers’ foundation also conferred similar award on the speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly, Ms. Sheila Oliver. While […]
African Examiner The All Progressives Congress (APC) says it has uncovered a grand plot by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and the Presidency to rig the 2015 general elections, especially the presidential poll, and also to destabilize Nigeria. The party, in a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji […]
Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola has commissioned the tallest hotel in West Africa, Intercontinental Lagos erected at a cost of N30 billion. The hotel, located at Kofo Abayomi Street, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeris is a 23-storey building housing 358 rooms and 37 suites and a Presidential suite. The Intercontinental Lagos, a subsidiary of the Intercontinental […]
