…As Chief Medical Director Calls For Patience Kayode Adelowokan, Lagos Medical and Dental Consultants’ Association of Nigeria (MDCAN), University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan has threatened to stall clinical activities following non-payment of their three months’ salaries. MDCAN Chairman, Professor Juwon Arotiba, who disclosed this while addressing journalists in Ibadan said members of the association would […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has lamented that Nigeria has fallen from grace to grass like Humpty Dumpty and needs urgent reconstruction. The governor, who spoke at both the Yoruba Tennis Club and the Island Club in Central Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, said it is a moderation of the current realities to […]
Kayode Adelowokan, Lagos Kwara State government has expressed its readiness to give out N200 million in soft loans to artisans in the state in 2014. The state governor, Mr. Abdulfatai Ahmed, disclosed this in Ilorin on Friday the first anniversary of the establishment of Kwara State Joint Association of Commercial Motorcycle Riders. Governor Ahmed assured […]
Ruth Bamidele , Lagos 19 year old Jamiu Aliyu was on Friday docked before a Lagos Magistrate Court sitting in Ikeja, for stealing household appliance totalling N70,000 at 13,Toyin street, Ikeja Lagos on Christmas day. The teenager on the 25th December, 2013 steal an air conditioner system worth N50,00 and a pumping machine worth N20,000, […]
Ignatius Okpara, Enugu Governor Martin Elechi of Ebonyi state Friday made a surprising u-turn on the proposed national conference (CONFAB) of President Goodluck Jonathan describing the exercise as a big joke and waste of government funds and time. “The National conference to me is a big joke, waste of time and a distraction to Goodluck […]
Ignatius Okpara, Enugu Operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad,SARS, of Enugu State police command Thursday apprehended a notorious armed bandit and a suspected car snatching syndicate. The suspect according to the police, has been terrorizing Trans-Ekulu axis of the state and its environs. Ebere Amarizu, the state police public Relations officer, PPRO, who made this […]
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu Soldiers stationed at Ngwa High School, in Aba the commercial city of Abia State, Thursday destroyed a tanker with over 66, 000 liters of stolen petroleum product. Military sources at the 82 Division of the Nigeria Army headquarters, Enugu, told African Examiner that one of the oil thieves was shot dead by […]
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu Drug dealers at the popular open River-Niger bridge head market Onitsha, Anambra state, have commenced the building of offices for the National Agency For Food Drug Administration and Control NAFDAC, as well as the police and pharmaceutical council of Nigeria in the market. Disclosing this to our Correspondent in Enugu Thursday, a […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos The All Progressives Congress (APC) says President Goodluck Jonathan has debased the office of the Presidency by engaging former President, Olusegun Obasanjo in a personal fight following the letter written to him by the ex-president. The party said while Jonathan was expected to have replied the letter in a decorum way, the […]
Kayode Adelowokan, Lagos In its drive to dominate the African market, Nigeria’s Guaranty Trust Bank Plc (GTbank) has acquired 70 percent (70%) in Fina Bank Limited, Kenya, with subsidiaries in Uganda and Rwanda. GTBank in a notice to the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) following its letter dated July 16, 2013 informing the NSE of the […]
Agabus Pwanagba It was a Christmas day tragedy as fire gutted six flats on Inspectors’ block of Nigerian Police Force, A Division Barracks, Jos and destroyed properties worth millions of Naira. Confirming the incident, the Deputy Police Public Relations Officer of Plateau Command, ASP Dominic Esin told journalists on Thursday in Jos that the fire […]
By Chido Onumah I have refrained from commenting on the pact between the All Progressives Alliance (APC) and the “new PDP” because, to some extent, I am involved. While the merger process of Nigeria’s main opposition parties – which led to the formation of the APC – lasted, I had reason to engage some of my […]
By Kayode Ojo In recent times, little else has stirred heated debate in the country like former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s open letter to President Goodluck Jonathan. While there are several aspects to Obasanjo’s ‘letter bomb’ that better informed and more cerebral reviewers than this writer have analysed, what is of major concern here is the […]
A month after sacking a good number of its workers, Keystone Bank Limited has again fired a significant number of its workforce -majority of the affected employees belonged to the senior management cadre. Keystone Bank, one of the three nationalized banks belonging to the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, had early this month laid off […]
By Odimegwu Onwumere There is a rapid growth in the business of information management in Rivers State. The modern days technologies are really helping in no small ways for easy transmission and dissemination of information. But without a capable hand to handle how, what and where information is intended to reach, the idea of inventing […]
The Special Adviser to the President on media and publicity Dr. Reuben Abati says reports in the media quoting President Jonathan as saying at a Christmas church service on Wednesday that “terrorism has come to stay” in Nigeria are completely untrue. Dr Rueben Abati advised some section of the media to desist and “stop reckless scaremongering.” Part of […]
Bamidele Ruth- Lagos The Gombe State Government said it had awarded a N500 million contract for the building of a 250-bed capacity Snake Bite Treatment Hospital. The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Kennedy Ishaya, said the existing snake bite treatment centre had received 500 doses of anti-snake venom for the free treatment of snake bite patients. News Agency of Nigeria […]
The deposed monarch of Akure, Oluwadare Adepoju Adesina, has urged the Ondo State government to restore him as the ruler. Mr. Adepoju was deposed after allegations that he battered his wife, Olori Bolanle, in May 2010. His battered wife took ill and subsequently died in July 2011. Mr. Adepoju then relocated to the United Kingdom. The […]
Kayode Adelowokan, Lagos Following the window of opportunity released to telecommunication subscribers in Nigeria by the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) through the Mobile Number Portability (MNP) technology to dump their service provider for a better one, report have it that 60, 000, Nigerians had used the opportunity. According to a report, only 60,000 subscribers […]
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu Contrary to speculations that Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Emeka Ihedioha, is making plans to dump the Peoples Democratic, Party PDP, for All Progress Change APC, the lawmaker, Wednesday dismissed the rumour, saying nothing will make him quit the ruling party. Ihedioha, stated this during his constituency briefing in […]
