FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Benin City – As the new dates for the Nigeria’s general elections approaches, the Edo State Government has raised the alarm of what it described as an alleged “evil plot” by anti-democratic elements to“unleash terror” on innocent citizens of the state. Commissioner for Information and Orientation in the state, Mr. Louis Odion, […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – The House of Representatives has asked the Presidency to furnish its committee on public account with the recent report of forensic audit of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). The House resolved to ask for the report as an interested party who had probe the corporation on the subject. The resolution […]
The Lagos All Progressive Congress (APC) may have bribed the Eze Indigbos in Lagos with N20 million to endorse its governorship candidate, Akinwunmi Ambode. The Eze Ndigbos is going to mobilise the Igbo community in Lagos for a rally at the Onikan Stadium early next month where the Igbo community in Lagos will canvass votes […]
The crisis rocking the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Bayelsa State chapter deepened on Thursday following the decision of the state party leaders to send a protest letter to President Goodluck Jonathan demanding immediate removal of their Chairman, Col. Sam Inokoba (retd). It was gathered that the decision to formally lodge complaints to […]
From Mustapha Abdul Salaam – The alleged N6 Billion bribe to the country’s Christian clerics to induce them and rally support for the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan in the rescheduled Presidential election has been confirmed after all. Executive Director of the Voice of Northern Christian Movement and an Associate Pastor, Kallamu Musa-Dikwa in Borno State, […]
Thirty cars and a bus were given out to youths from Ikwuano Local Government Area free of charge as part of the on-going youth empowerment programme of the Chief Theodore Orji’s administration. Speaking before handing over the vehicles to the beneficiaries at the Ikwuano LGA headquarters, Governor Theodore Orji noted that some people from the […]
The Nigerian leading opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) has alerted Nigerians of a fresh plot by desperate politicians to circulate leaflets, in mosques and churches, asking Muslims to only vote for Muslims in the forthcoming elections. APC alerted the plot was in line with the track record of those who have consistently used religion to […]
Agabus Pwanagba, Jos – The Plateau State Police Command has confirmed the killing of the Deputy Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) of Sop Ward, Mr. Solomon Mwadvyang in Riyom Local Government Area, of the State. The gunmen also inflicted injuries on the deceased daughter, Emmanuela. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Abuh Emmanuel, […]
By Tajudeen Balogun, Lagos – A dispatch rider with a courier firm in Lagos was killed by a fast moving train late Thursday morning at Fagba junction in Ifako Ijaiye Local Government area of the State. Eyewitnesses told AFRICAN EXAMINER that the dispatch rider was coming from new Oko Oba side, heading towards Iju road. […]
Cristiano Ronaldo ended a three-game goal drought as Real Madrid took control of their Champions League last-16 tie with Schalke in Gelsenkirchen. The forward’s form was questioned before kick-off but he headed in Dani Carvajal’s cross to open the scoring. He also created the second goal which arrived moments after Schalke’s Felix Platte had smashed […]
The Committee for the Protection of Peoples Mandate (CPPM) has condemned in strong terms the criminal, barbaric and undemocratic assault on the All Progressive Congress (APC) governorship rally in Okrika, Rivers State on Tuesday by some hoodlums which resulted in the death of a police man and injuries to several others as well as destruction […]
By Prof R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria Many of us always feel that the good news on Nigeria is what we should be writing about but alas there is just none. Do we turn the deepening political crises and uncertainty or the unnecessary interference of the military statements in politics to good news? […]
The family of Papa Joseph Adeleye Obutu of Iju Itaogbolu in Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State has announced the passing away of their loving and inspirational father. According to a statement signed by Soji Adeleye for the family, Papa Adeleye Obutu passed to the great beyond on February 9, 2015 at a […]
The National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has lamented the non-collection of the Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) by Lagosians. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disclosed that only 62 percent of Lagosians have collected their PVCs so far. At an emergency party stakeholders meeting at the APC Lagos secretariat […]
I am not dead, I am alive, says Hon. Solomon Olamilekan Adeola, an All Progressive Congress (APC) Lagos West Senatorial candidate in the coming election. Earlier in the day, there have been rumours of his death on social media, but Adeola, popularly known as YAYI, deunked rumour of his death. In actual sense, Adeola is […]
Lagos State has thrown away international plea that it should expunge death sentence from its criminal law as the government insists on retaining it in the law to serve as deterrent to murders and armed robbers. The international communities have been advocating the abrogation of death sentence from nation’s criminal system and have been mounting […]
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu – As part of its humanitarian services, a non governmental organization, NGO South Sahara Social Development (SSSD) Tuesday put smile on the faces of over 1000 in the streets of Enugu as it provided them assorted food for their meals. The exercise, according to the organization is aimed at touching human […]
No fewer than 20 out of the entire 36 states of the federation, voted against the autonomy for local governments in the fourth amendment to the 1999 Constitution (as amended), passed by the Senate Wednesday. The 20 states who voted against are: Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Borno, Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, Ekiti, Enugu, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, […]
The Nigerian Defence headquarters has hinted that over 300 terrorists have been killed while a few captured, as well destroyed several weapons and equipment, belonging to insurgents. Similarly, the Defence Wednesday, in a post pointed out that mopping up operation of some communities where terrorists have been cleared in the course of ongoing air and […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation (APCPCO) has disputed the message of a newspaper advertorial about Nigeria’s military expenditure during the 20-month reign of General Muhammadu Buhari, saying that the presidential candidate of the APC expended more in equipping the military within his short stint as Head of State than […]
