Though he is yet to formally declare to contest the 2015 governorship election, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe was Monday endorsed by traditional Prime Ministers in Abia South Senatorial District who also asked him to declare his interest without delay. Also, the Oha Ngwa clan residing in Kano stormed Abaribe’s country home in Ohuru, near Aba, urging […]
Governor of the State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has called for a nationwide protest against Boko Haram over the sect’s abduction of 234 school girls at the Chibok Government Girls Secondary School, Borno State, Nigeria last week. Aregbesola, who spoke at a book the public presentation of a book authored by the Lagos State […]
Mona Ogbeidi The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN has lamented the composition of the members of the National Conference Committee on Religion alleging that the leadership of the national conference favors Muslims more than their Christian counterpart. Making this declaration, through a statement sent to newsmen by CAN Director on national issues, Mr. Sunny Oibe, […]
Fresh crises have started brewing within the leadership of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) following the breakdown of confidence among members of the National Executive Committee (NEC). This is based on what many of the NWC members described as the unbecoming attitude of the National Chairman, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, on party matters. The new development […]
…Speaks On Confab Kayode Adelowokan, Lagos The human right activist and Lagos base lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has censured Lagos state governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola over his comment on the citizen of Minister of Trade and Commerce, Olusegun Aganga. Governor Fashola who was speaking on the number of ministerial representative the state is having at […]
Kayode Adelowokan, Lagos The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has discovered 2.460kg of cocaine inside female shoes and voltage regulators at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos. The seizures were made in a consignment of female shoes from Brazil on board an Ethiopian Airline flight and a shipment of voltage regulators meant for […]
Mona Ogbeidi A human rights group, Women Arise has decried the spate of unwarranted Police brutality against unarmed citizens. While lamenting a disgraceful clip exposing an officer of the Nigerian Police Force, identified first as Tafa Muhammed, bullying on non-offending citizens, the President of the group, Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin was delighted that the issue has […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos The All Progressives Congress (APC) has called on the abductors of schoolgirls in Borno State to release them immediately and without conditions, in the spirit of the holiday season. In comments made by the party’s Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, at the dedication of the 150 million naira Catholic Church […]
Agabus Pwanagba, Jos Following the attack by unknown gunmen in Government Girls Secondary School Yana, in Shira Local Government Area of Bauchi State last Sunday, which led to the death of a 5 year old girl and destruction of properties, the State Government has evacuated about 200 students from the School. African Examiner gathered that […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos Following the threats posed by Boko Haram, the Afenifere Renewal Group (ARG) has called on traditional institutions and residents of the Southwest to be on the alert in view of recent claims by the terrorist group that they are strategically positioned in the city. Afenifere said the recent claims by Boko Haram […]
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Awka A serving police sergeant (name with held) has been arrested by his colleagues in Anambra state for allegedly raping a 13 year old daughter of a popular pastor at Ukpor in Idemili Council Area of the state. African Examiner learnt that the young girl who is now two months pregnant opened up […]
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu The Enugu state Commissioner for lands, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ujam, may soon be in trouble over his alleged involvement in a land scandal belonging to the southeast zonal offfice of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). Dr. Ujam, our correspondent gathered is accused of re- allocating a piece of land belonging to the […]
Years ago until 1992, Guinness stout from the stable of Guinness Nigeria Plc, had a field day in the stout market. The first indigenous brewery, the Nigerian Breweries Plc, had been noted mainly for Gulder, Star and Maltina. But in that year, it introduced the Legend extra stout, The Guinness extra stout has, however, been […]
Oyewale Oyelola The Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) has warned Federal Government not to deploy military officers to polling units for 2015 general elections. The INEC, Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for Ondo state, Mr. Akin Orebiyi said this in Media chat on the inclusive election to Ilaje/Ese -odo Federal Constituency. Orebiyi said the deployment of military […]
The outgoing regime of “Engr” Rauf Aregbesola from all intent and purposes did not just establish the fact that the his administration in Osun state is perhaps an Annexe of the Bourdillon road Lagos, he has practically manifested this in the modus operandi of his government. Capital flight has been a major characteristics of the […]
Mona Ogbeidi President of the Nigerian Senate, Senator David Mark has reiterated his commitment to working towards bringing a lasting solution to the challenges of insecurity in the country. Mark who made this declaration, while addressing his Benue South constituents from the 9 local government areas making up the Benue South Senatorial district in his […]
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has said that the Minister of Petroleum Resources and Chairman of NNPC board, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke and the Group Managing Director of the Corporation, Engr. Andrew Yakubu are in harmonious working relationship and dismissed insinuations in some quarters of a phantom frosty relationship between the two key figures in […]
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu The people of Oduma community, in Aninri council area of Enugu state has ignored the recent order by Enugu state government, banning traditional Rulers in the state from conferring chieftaincy title on any body, as they conferred different titles on Deputy senate president, (DSP) Ike Ekweremadu, and three other personalities. African Examiner […]
Officials of recreation centres in Abuja, popularly called “gardens’’, on Saturday lamented the low patronage their business suffered ahead of the weekend’s Easter celebrations. The fear over insecurity owing to threats that members of the Boko Haram Sects had invaded the Federal capital Territory of Abuja is said to be largly responsible for withdrawal of […]
2 years after, the governor of Osun State, “Engr” Rauf Aregbesola is yet to pay any retirement benefit to the Teachers who were massively “sacked” among other workers by his government in the year 2012. These teachers some of whom are either aged or bread winners of their various families have remained subjected to varying […]
