In furtherance of its expansion plan in African countries, Leading Cement manufacturers, Dangote Cement Plc will next week Thursday commission its 2.5million mtpa cement plant in Ethiopia as the company inches towards the mark of 40million mtpa total production capacity globally before the end of 2015 Located in Mugher District, the Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen – Less than a week after its immediate past National Chairman, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu was frustrated out of office, the ruling PDP, has announced a former Defence Minister, Haliru Mohammed, as the new acting Chairman of the Board of Trustees. The ex-Minister appointment was endorsed late Monday night by the country’s outgoing […]
By Ayo Balogun, Lagos – Lagos lawyer, Festus Keyamo has withdrawn from prosecuting the case against former Bayelsa State Governor, Timipre Sylva. Keyamo refused to disclose why he decided to withdraw from the case, saying it is personal. In a letter he wrote to the Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Keyamo recalled that […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Abakaliki – Chairman of the troubled All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Ebonyi state chapter, Mr. Jerry Obasi, has raised the alarm over threat to his life by some hoodlums, who recently besieged his residence either kill or abduct him in Abakaliki. He told newsmen that “the incident, took place at about 4:30a.m. […]
By Balogun, Lagos – The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) views with disappointment the apparent snub by the President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari of the handover programme lined up by the Federal Government to transmit power to him by Friday, May 29, 2015. The PDP said such behaviour was a measure of lack of democratic discipline. PDP […]
By Ayo Balogun – Osun State public servants will begin indefinite strike on Tuesday over the state government’s inability to pay them six months salaries. The workers had issued 14-day ultimatum to the government to pay them the six months salaries being owed them. Jacob Adekomi, Nigeria Labour Congress, Osun State ordered civil servants to […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki (APC Kwara Central) has declared that fuel subsidy management in Nigeria is the biggest platform for fraud in the country. He said that the subsidy is in form of huge rackets being used by oil marketers and government officials to rip off the national treasury on yearly […]
As fuel scarcity bites harder, Nigerian banks have cut service hours to their customers as there is no diesel to power their generators. With unstable power supply. In Nigeria, banks rely on diesel to operate at a very high cost, but diesel is now a scarce commodity with banks unable to cope. Gurantee Trust Bank, […]
*Urges Newly Elected Chairmen To Be Good Ambassadors Of The Party The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has thanked the electorate in the State for overwhelmingly voting for the party in Saturday’s local government elections, describing their action as an endorsement of the eight years administration of out-going Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi. The […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – The Nigeria Oil Marketers have suspended their strike action and embarked on immediate lifting of fuel across the country. The marketers also pledge to make fuel available across the country within six hours. The decision followed the intervention of the Senate committee on petroleum downstream led by Senator Magnus Abe. Abe […]
*Urges Vigilance As Nigerians Await Change , Buhari/Osinbajo Presidency International journalist and top official of the the group of Nigerian Christians in the US, Laolu Akande says Nigerians must take full ownership of the change process which is expected to kic k-off later this week with the swearing-in of a new president and vice president. […]
By Ayo Balogun, Lagos – Former President Olusegun has urged Nigerians to be patience with the president-elect Gen. Mohammadu Buhari noting it will take time to fix Jonathan’s administration rot. Speaking when a group of Southwest women Leaders paid him a courtesy call at his Abeokuta residence, the former president also expressed confidence that Buhari […]
By Emmanuel Onwubiko – In what may signal an appreciable state of trust in the capacity of Mr. Solomon Arase to steer the decadent and near-moribund Nigeria Police Force out of dysfuntionality and operational paralysis, the Nigerian Head of State and Government made a historic confirmation of the appointment to the substantive post of the […]
To err is human, to forgive divine From “An Essay on Criticism”, by Alexander Pope Debt, debt everywhere; should we forgive or bargain? From the writer The truth is that it is only God the Almighty who does not make a mistake and His angels. Every man and woman makes mistakes and commits sins at […]
By Adewale Kupoluyi – Recently, the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Mahmud Mohammed, disclosed that the era of appointing persons considered to be unfit, questionable and improper as judges had gone. He said the National Judicial Council’s newly revised guidelines of appointment of judicial officers had provided for a more detailed, robust and transparent […]
By Oludare Sunday Fase, Baltimore – Buoyed by the new dawn in Nigeria politics, the African Heritage Foundation says it has penciled down Nigeria’s president-elect, General Mohammadu Buhari to commission its new African House located in Montgomery, Alabama. Speaking in an Interview with African Examiner, the founder of the foundation and African cultural ambassador, Chief […]
The Bayelsa State PDP Disciplinary Committee has re-invited six persons to appear before it to explain their roles in the last State House of Assembly elections conducted in the State. The persons, who failed to honour a previous invitation for the same purpose, include the senator representing Bayelsa Central, Senator Emmanuel Paulker, Senator Nimi Barigha-Amangi […]
By Funmilayo Omidiji – The embattled Ogun State Senator-Elect and Chieftain of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Buruji Kashamu has described attempt Saturday morning, by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) officials to arrest him, following a purported extradition request from the United States (US), as a plot to “illegally abduct him”. Kashamu […]
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Abakaliki – The crisis ridden- Ebonyi state House of Assembly on Friday, via a motion during its plenary announced the reversal of the recent appointment of 16 new permanent Secretaries by outgoing governor Martin Elechi. African Examiner reports that the lawmakers, had also during the sitting, elected Chief Jerry Obasi, of the […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen – The incoming administration from the takeoff, requires a total of 4.1 trillion Naira, expected to be expended on sundry expenses, including oil subsidy payment, arrears of salaries at Federal and State levels and debt servicing, among other key areas. In the same vein, the Senators-Elect under the platform of the incoming […]
