The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Suleimon Abba has directed a water – tight security around all key and vulnerable points across the country. In a statement issued Thursday, by the Force Public Relations Officer, in the Force Headquarters, Abuja, Ag. CP Emmanuel Ojukwu, indicated that the marked locations include: Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps; […]
By Niyi Adeyi, Lagos – The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) says it is constrained to observe reports that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega, is being threatened to drop idea of deploying card reader during the coming elections or resign have created a tension across the country. In view of this, […]
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday Spoke with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari ahead of the Nigerian presidential election, which is scheduled for March 28. The Vice President commended President Jonathan and General Buhari for signing the Abuja Accord in mid-January as a show of their commitment to non-violence throughout […]
Abia State Government has given the former Governor of the State, Orji Uzor Kalu 72-hours to apologise to the State over statements he made against the State Government in a recent interview he granted to one of the national dailies or be prepared to be dragged to court for interpretation. The former Governor was quoted […]
A former governor has been fingered in the spate of embezzlement going on in the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation. The former governor has been seen with President Goodluck Jonathan at several rallies and functions of recent. The former governor, who has an interest in a new generation bank where he was chairman at […]
The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has alleged that top official of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) plan to rig the forthcoming general elections in the State. The party in a statement issued Wednesday in Port Harcourt further alleged that NDDC Executive Director, Finance […]
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Owerri – Angry mob has beaten to death a woman alleged to have stolen a baby in Owerri, the Imo state capital. Before she gave up the ghost, the mob had stripped her naked. African Examiner gathered that Nemesis caught up with the victim, simply identified as Chioma, while trying to steal […]
No fewer than 50,000 members of the Labour Party (LP) in Kwara State have defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as the party’s campaign train stopped at Offa in Kwara State on Tuesday. The visibly-excited defectors were received into the APC by a national leader and senator representing Kwara Central senatorial district at […]
From Ganiyu Nasirudeen – A total of eight new Ministers including the controversial Lagos nominee, Musiliu Obanikoro, as well as other Federal Commissioners were Wednesday sworn in by President Goodluck Jonathan. The brief ceremony which held ahead of the week’s Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja, inaugurated as new Ministers: Col. Augustine Akobundu (retd.) (State, […]
From Agabus Pwanagba, Jos – Less than two weeks to the general elections, Vice Presidential Candidate of the opposition All Progressive Congress (APC), Professor Yemi Osinbajo, has lamented unprecedented level of corruption in the President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration. Osinbajo made the lamentation Wednesday, during a town hall meeting with Christian Leaders in Jos, the Plateau State […]
From Agabus Pwanagba, Jos – With less than two weeks to the Presidential and National Assembly elections, Plateau State Governor and flagbearer of the PDP for Plateau North Senatorial District, Jonah Jang has berated the opposition All Progressives Congress, (APC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) for insisting on the use of Permanent Voters’ […]
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Abakaliki – Disturbed by the high rate of political violence that has continued to characterised parts of Nigeria, ahead of the forthcoming general polls, the National Emergency Management Agency NEMA on Wednesday staged a one day election Non- violence awareness and sensitization workshop in Ebonyi, believed to be one of the volatile […]
By Ayo Balogun, Lagos – Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola has replied Dr. Reuben Abatti over comment he made at the weekend on Fashola over last week’s robbery in Lekki, saying that the President Goodluck Jonathan’s spokesman is simply a serial reckless talker. Abati has attacked Fashola for linking Jonathan with the robbery when […]
Yoruba Muslim clerical leaders under the aegis of the League of Imams and Alfas have snubbed the Presidency over an invitation to them for a meeting that was apparently meant to lure them into endorsing the Jonathan/Sambo ticket in the forthcoming presidential election. The meeting, in which Vice President, Muhammad Namadi Sambo, was to represent […]
A serious break in the ranks of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) may have been sparked by the recent violent protest held on the streets of Lagos by the Gani Adams faction of the group. Indications of deep divisions emerged when about 50 pioneer members of the OPC gathered at the Kolex Hotel in Shomolu […]
Audu Limun, Bauchi – Federal High Court in Bauchi presided over by Justice Ibrahim Auta, has fixed March 23, 2015, to rule on whether the court has the jurisdiction to entertain the suit filed by former Governor Murtala Nyako against Adamawa State House of Assembly and 7-man panel of investigation. Justice Auta ordered Olukoya Ogungbeje, […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – Angered by the alleged negative comments he made against them last week, the All Progressives Congress (APC) senators in the Senate, have called on the Senate to call Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Information, Media and Public Affairs to order. Senator Abaribe (PDP Abia South) had last week […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – Senate has approved N59.7 billion diaspora bond to be borrowed from the International Capital Market for the construction of key capital projects in priority sectors of the economy, including: the Second Niger Bridge, the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and the Infrastructure for the Abuja Mega City. This is Just as the Senate has […]
Barely two weeks to the rescheduled general elections, President Goodluck Jonathan, the country’s service Chiefs and Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, are in a crucial meeting in the Presidential Villa, Abuja. At the meeting being presided over by President Jontahan and attended by his Vice, Namadi Sambo, INEC boss, […]
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Benin City – The Edo state chapter of the peoples Democratic party, PDP has suffered a set back as ward chairman and eleven members of the executive council of the party defected to the All Progressives Congress APC. African Examiner reports that the decampees were leaders of the party in Ukpato Ward, […]
