From Agabus Pwanagba, Jos – Following the outbreak of Hepatitis B in the camp of Internally Displaced Persons from the North Eastern zone of Nigeria, the Chairman of Stefanos Foundation, Mr. Mark Lipdo has called on Federal Government to come to the aid of 45 persons diagnosed with the ailment so as to avoid spread […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Owerri – As the controversies over the Imo State’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate rage, two of the key contenders, Senator Ifeanyi Ararume and Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon. Emeka Ihedioha, have engaged themselves in war of words and vowed not to shift grounds. After the primary election, both Ararume […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – There is no $30 billion missing from the Excess Crude Account as alleged, Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for Economy, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has said. Iweala who stated this in a statement by his media aide, Paul C Nwabuikwu wondered how such a huge amount could be missing from the Excess […]
Ignatius Okpara, Enugu – The South-east chapter of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) has applauded the people of South- east Nigeria for being the highest contributors to the Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign fund. The party in a press statement issued by its publicity secretary in the zone, Osita Okechukwu, made available to African Examiner on […]
By Adewale Kupoluyi – As the presidential election contest becomes fiercer, the candidates are busy perfecting their winning strategies to enable them occupy the Aso Rock Villa by next year. From all indications, the major contestants in the race are certainly those of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the incumbent President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, […]
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Benin – THE Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Benin (UNIBEN) chapter, has raised the alarm over alleged harassment and assault of its members by some suspected hoodlums, over disputed landed properties. It said it has already filed an appeal against a court judgment issued on the said land which according […]
A 23- year old man has drowned in a swimming pool, Victoria Island area of Lagos on Christmas Day celebration, says the Lagos State Fire Services. The victim, Sodiq Ojomo was said to have drowned while attempting to swim at a swimming pool located in an eight storey building at 3/5 Durosimi Etti Street, Victoria […]
Fire has razed seven houses in Lagos, Nigeria on Christmas and Boxing Day, leaving properties worth millions of naira destroyed. Director, Lagos State Fire Services, Mr. Rasak Fadipe said fire destroyed seven rooms at Moboluwaduro Street and eight rooms at Modupeola Street in Ejigbo and a Club House at 73 Tokunbo Street, Lagos Island on […]
The 10th memorial anniversary services to honour 200,000 victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami have held in some Asian and European countries. Indonesia Aceh province, Vice-President, Jusuf Kalla, Friday led others in paying tributes to the dead at the Siron mass grave. Indonesia is the worst hit country in the December 26, 2004 disaster. […]
By Ayo Balogun, Lagos – Again, the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) has challenged President Goodluck Jonathan to show leadership by example rather than engaging in mere rhetoric, saying talk becomes cheap, the moment “words lose their meaning.” In a statement issued in Lagos Friday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, APC held […]
By Tajudeen Balogun, Head, African Examiner, Nigeria Bureau (Presentation at the Manifesto Campaign) Fellow Nigerians, it gives me greatest pleasure to address you today on this historic occasion. I present myself before you, to canvass your support as I desire to contest the number one position of our great country. I do so because we […]
Oyewale Oyelola – Just as 219 girls of Government Secondary School, Chibok abducted by Boko Haram sects on April 14, 2014 spent their Christmas in the terrorists’ den, some of escaped girls have resumed school in United states of America. African Examiner gathered the girls were relocated to US as parts of re-integration measure to […]
From Vatican comes another message from the head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis of peace and end to terrorism in Nigeria, Libya, South Sudan and other parts of Africa. In his Christmas remarks, the Pope demanded for peace and aid for the families of the 132 children killed last week by the Taliban insurgents […]
Color white has always been synonymous with purity and peace, or at least presumptively so. Nigeria’s edifice that housed the sitting government, the Aso Rock is painted white which supposedly symbolize governmental peace and national unity. However, the occupants of this mansion have stained and polluted it. They have redefined it to depict impurity, insanity […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – The Peoples Democratic Party has called on the opposition All Progressive Congress, APC, to stop inciting statements capable of leading to disaffection within the rank and file of the military. The party gave the warning in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh. PDP warns against politicising […]
By Tajudeen Balogun, Head, African Examiner, Nigeria Bureau The wolf cries have been made, plus assaults and abuses at one another; torrent allegations have been made, as well as the counters and now, the last of the two weeks tirades have been heard, issues involved dead, shrouded, buried and rested forever! Certainly, the rest is […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos – The opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) has reached out to Nigerians in the spirit of the festivity season, with assurance that the coming Christmas celebration will be the last under the bondage of insecurity, corruption, unemployment, widespread hopelessness and poor leadership. The party in a statement issued in Abuja Wednesday by […]
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked a group of five United Nations human rights independent experts to individually and jointly use their offices and positions to urgently request the Nigerian government and its military authorities not to carry out the mass death sentences imposed on 54 Nigerian soldiers for what the government […]
Although fate may defeat the efforts of virtue to avert misfortune, it cannot deprive us of the power to endure it with equanimity.’ Funke Akindele’s production outfit, Scene One Production in conjunction with Adekaz Production LTD presents a new Yoruba movie titled ‘Sababi Eda(Fate). fully subtitled in English. Sababi Eda depicts the life of a […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Calabar – No fewer that 23 people Wednesday morning lost their lives in a ghastly auto- crash which occurred along the Calabar-Awi-Akamkpa Expressway of Cross River State, South South, Nigeria. The tragic incident which happened in the wee hours involved a gold coloured Picnic car and a 14-seater Hiace commercial bus. AFRICAN […]
