The African Examiner FIFA have ordered Nigeria U20 star Olanrewaju Kayode back to Ivorian club Asec to put an end to his transfer saga. MTNFootball.com has gathered that the order from the FIFA legal office caused the investigative panel on the matter by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) not to sit last week. “FIFA have […]
African Examiner Matthew McConaughey was at a crossroads in late 2008. He had just received an offer of $15 million against 15 percent of the backend to star in Universal and Imagine’s big-screen take on Magnum, P.I. But the actor, who first made an impression in Dazed and Confused and A Time to Kill, was coming off a list of underwhelming big […]
A popular Nollywood film producer, Uchenna Mbunabo, has been dragged before a Tinubu Magistrate’s Court for allegedly defrauding an actress of N1.7m. The 28-year-old producer was said to have collected the money from Maryjane Okoye under the pretext that he would produce a film for her. He allegedly collected the sum since January 2012. Mbunabo […]
By Ignatius Okpara At last, the Imo State University Teaching Hospital Orlu, has finally graduated 55 of its fifth set of medical doctors, fifteen years after. African Examiner gathered that the fresh medical graduands had spent not less than 15 years at the medical institution due to the period of non-accreditation of the medical programme as well as […]
President Goodluck Jonathan has deployed some of the remaining Ministers to oversee the activities of the ministries which its ministers were sacked in the cabinet shake off. The Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, said President gave the directives through the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Anyim Pius Anyim. Mr. Maku, […]
…says his real age blurs his memory Defending her integrity, the Former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Mrs. Farida Waziri on Wednesday blasted ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo describing him as a blatant liar and a peddler of “arrant falsehood.” Obasanjo had in an interview attacked the integrity and the tenure of […]
A socio-political group, Concerned Stakeholders of Ogun State, has urged the Police and the State Security Service to re-open investigation into the gruesome murder of hundreds of students of the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU) in 2006. In a statement issued on Wednesday by its Chairman, Akogun Semiu Okanlanwo, the group said, “Fresh evidence available to […]
By Ignatius Okpara The Enugu state chapter of All Progressive Change APC is considering legal action against the Enugu state Independent Electoral Commission ENSIEC for imposing what it described as “outrageous levy” on chairmen and councillorship Aspirants in the forthcoming local government polls in the state. Our correspondent reports that the state electoral body, under […]
I was happy for the recent registration of APC, a coalition of three political parties, in Nigeria as a political party. I think it is a good development for Nigeria’s democracy. I have always believed that what we need in this country is two strong political parties. In my view, it will unite the country […]
It is unfortunate that the federal government and ASUU have continued to play games with our future as they have failed to resolve their differences as quickly as we had thought. In the interest of the suffering students, I want to appeal to President Goodluck Jonathan to as matter of urgent resolve this crisis so […]
The African Examiner Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has affected a major cabinet reshuffle sacking nine ministers of the federal executive council. They are Ruqayat Rufai (Education); Zainab Kunchi (Power, [state]); Buka Tijani (Agriculture [state]), Shamsudeen Usman (National Planning); Other are: Ita Okon (Science and Technology); Olugbenga Ashiru (Foreign Affairs); Ama Pepple (Lands) and Hadiza Mailafia (Environment).
By Prof. R.A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria In the war in Syria, is such that President Assad has on his side groups loyal to the Ayatollas of Iran, the Hezbollah, the Al-Qaeda and the other violent sectarian groups in the region. On the opposite side are the rest and their own violence is just […]
…Recovers N6.5b, $19.2m The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has charged 368 cases to court and recorded 80 convictions at the end of August, 2013. Within the same period, the Commission recorded the following recoveries: N6,583,108,350 ; $19,251,519; 20,520 Euros and 19,000 Pounds Sterling. Beyond the recoveries, EFCC Intensified the prosecution of politically exposed […]
Abia Governor, Chief Theodore Orji has flagged off the 2014 Budget Estimate Defence with a charge on Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) in the State to ensure that budget data is captured in the required degree of detail, with the source and reason for every transaction identified. Declaring the session open, the Governor said […]
By Ignatius Okpara ..Kill one, others escape with gunshot wounds A five man Kidnap gang that have be terrorising residents of Abia state, and environ on Monday met their waterloo, as Policemen from the Aba Area Command, of the state gunned down one of them while four others escaped with various degrees of bullet wounds […]
Operatives of the Inspector-General of Police monitoring team at Kam Salem, Obalende, Lagos, have launched a man-hunt for manager of the Ladipo branch Fidelity bank over an alleged N100 million fraud. However, the bank manager’s lover in whose account the fleeing suspect was alleged to have lodged some of the stolen amount had been arrested. […]
The National Youth Leader of the Alh Kawu Baraje led new PDP has blasted the former Niger Delta warlord, Mujaheedin Asari-Dokubo for declaring former Vice President Atiku Abubakar a persona non grata in the Niger-Delta region over the ongoing crisis in the party. Reacting to the position of the former warlords under the aegis of […]
The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Heritage Bank Plc, Mr. Ifie Sekibo said the bank has concluded arrangement to pay back 100 percent of customers’ deposit that were trapped in the defunct Societe Generale Bank of Nigeria, (SGBN) if owners can show prove that they have such deposits in the bank. He also […]
