The National Planning Commission has scored Delta State high in capturing the objectives of the State Employment and Expenditure for Result Project. The commission was elated that within two years the state had generated close to 6,000 jobs to beat counterpart states in the South South zone, including Bayelsa, Edo and Rivers. SEEFOR, an initiative […]
Without doubt, I have a dog in this fight. As the spokesperson for DStv, there should be no garlands for guessing the dog I am backing. Like everybody else, I have followed the public response to the new price regime announced by MultiChoice with keen interest. That is expected. What I have been able to […]
Couple of months ago, the former Governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu made a public declaration through his SUN Newspaper that he is back to PDP and that he never belonged to PPA. He went as far as lying before the people that his PPA Senatorial form was purchased and filled by one of […]
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the presidential candidates of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), President Goodluck Jonathan and All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari to publicly endorse the global initiative for an International Anticorruption Court (IACC) to demonstrate their expressed commitment to satisfactorily address corruption and impunity of perpetrators if […]
From Mustapha Abdul Salaam – Sequel to many intractable wrangling and anomalies currently ongoing in the party, Former Speaker House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Ghali Na’Abba, has announced his resignation from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). In his resignation letter dated Sunday, March 15, 2015, Na’ Abba lamented that the leadership of the country […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – It was revealed at the weekend that the uncouth remarks made by the wife of the President, Dame Patience Jonathan has taken a negative turn on the electoral fortunes of her husband, especially in the North. African Examiner gathered that PDP members were having it rough to placate those that were […]
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu – Three persons were on saturday killed in a fatal motor accident that occurred along the Enugu Abakaliki road, just as five assorted vehicles,a restaurant, and other valuables worth several millions of naira, were also consumed in an inferno that gutted the Nsukka merchanic village in Enugu state same day. The […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – The last may not have been heard about plots to disqualify General Mohammadu Buhari, the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressive Congress from the poll slated for March 28, 2015 as the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA has again dragged him before a federal High Court, Akwa, Anambra state. The case […]
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Abakaliki – A mysterious fire which gutted about 68 rooms in Abakaliki, Ebonyi state, has sent a 20- year old girl, identified as Mercy Elom, to her untimely grave, hours after she sat for this year’s JAMB examination. The fire also destroyed properties valued at several millions. The deceased, our Correspondent gathered […]
Dr. Ayuba Waba has been elected the new National President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC). Comrade Waba who is a member of the Medical and Health Workers Union (MHWU) as well as the immediate past NLC treasurer, was declared winner Saturday, as he polled a total of 1, 695 votes as against his closest […]
By Ayo Balogun, Lagos – A global political research organisation , the Eurasia Group has predicted that the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Gen Mohammadu Buhari has a chance of winning the March 28 election by 60% of the votes. Africa practice head and Analyst Philippe de Pontet noted on Saturday that the […]
George Boyd’s goal gave Burnley a famous win against Manchester City to further damage the champions’ hopes of retaining their Premier League title. Boyd arrowed in a low half-volley after a poor headed clearance from returning City captain Vincent Kompany. The visitors had wasted chances as Edin Dzeko had a shot saved by Tom Heaton […]
Despite all odds, the doggedness of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to use the card reader for the forthcoming general elections is highly commendable. Since INEC made public its intention known to bring sanity into the electoral process this time around through the use of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) as well as the Smart […]
Sierra Leone’s Vice-President Samuel Sam-Sumana has gone into hiding while he seeks political asylum at the US embassy in the capital, Freetown. Mr Sam-Sumana told the BBC he and his wife fled their home after “a tip-off” that soldiers were surrounding it. The move comes a week after his expulsion from the ruling party. Two […]
A British Airways flight was forced to return to England because of a ‘smelly poo’ left in a toilet. Councillor Abhishek Sachdev, from Hertfordshire, says he was on the BA flight to Dubai when it was forced to return to Heathrow. It is understood that cabin crew unsuccessfully tried to fix the problem, but the […]
Dr. Dakuku Peterside, governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Rivers State has vowed to defend the independence of the judiciary. He also promised to provide effective justice administration system in Rivers State. He made the pledge in Port Harcourt at a one-day interactive session with members of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA […]
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Yenagoa – The Federal Government College, Imiringi in Ogbia council Area of president Goodluck Jonathan’s home state, of Bayelsa, has been shut down, following an outbreak of cholera in the school. African Examiner gathered that already, no fewer than eleven students of the school have been hospitalised at the Federal Medical Centre […]
Ayo Balogun – Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola has vowed that the armed robbers who raided a bank in Lekki area of the State on Wednesday will be apprehended. Three policemen and a girl were gunned down by robbers on Wednesday as they robbed the First City Monument Bank and carted away huge sums of […]
Director of Media and Publicity of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation (PDPPCO), Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has assured corrupt leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) that nemesis would soon catch up with them. Fani-Kayode spoke against the backdrop of a forged letter purportedly signed by the Chief of Staff to the President, Brigadier […]
The South African government is concerned its nationals may be working as mercenaries in Nigeria in the war against the Boko Haram militant group. Nigerian government spokesman Mike Omeri told the BBC that foreigners were just training troops in the use of new weapons. Nigeria has recently bought helicopter gunships and tanks from South Africa […]
