FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu – All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA candidate for Udenu/Igboeze North federal Constituency of Enugu state in the last general polls, Prince Emeka Mamah, has called on the police to arrest and prosecute incumbent chairman of Udenu Council Area of the state, Barr. Ameachi Nwodo for allegedly sponsoring political violence in the […]
By Ayo Balogun – Senator-elect, Prince Buruji Kashamu has again taken a swipe at the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) over its press release purporting to have served him the controversial extradition notice. Mr Kashamu in a statement issued by his lawyer Ajibola Oluyede berated the agency noting that its action “is very jumpy, […]
By Niyi Adeyi – For being implicated in N8billion defaced and mutilated currency recycling scam, six staffers of the Central Bank of Nigeria, (CBN), were Tuesday remanded in Agodi prison custody in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. Justice Ayo Emmanuel of a Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan, made the order in a suit filed […]
By Niyi Adeyi – At last, the controversial fifth time President of the world Football governing body, Sepp Blatter, has thrown in the towel, as he announced his resignation Tuesday from the global Football house exalted position. Blatter and many FIFA officials have been embroiled in messy controversies of corruption, culminating in the demand by […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – Lawmakers elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the incoming National Assembly rose from a one-day retreat in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, with a firm resolve to shun defection, speak with one voice, and benchmark the activities of the ruling All Progressives Congress to the benefit of […]
By Mustapha Abdul Salaam – Terrorists’ attacks rage in Borno State, North Eastern Nigeria, as about 50 people Tuesday, fell victims of a fresh bomb explosion in a pre-occupied and popular meat market in Maiduguri city, the Borno State capital. AFRICAN EXAMINER Correspondent gathered from the residents that the explosives which erupted around 1.00 pm […]
The Governor of Ekiti State Mr Ayo Fayose has written to President Mohammadu Buhari to be given the privilege to nominate competent candidate to fill Ekiti slot in the Federal Executive Council. In a letter he personally signed dated 31st May 2015 Fayose said that if the request is favoured by the President he would […]
Senator Adamu Aliero has accused Senator Bukola Saraki’s group of peddling falsehood in the build up to who becomes the Senate President. Aliero, in a statement said he had read with surprising disgust the story published in one of the national dailies in which infantile claims were made about the purported blanket support secured by […]
By Ayo Balogun – The NFF President Amaju Pinnick, has been named a member of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), organizing committee for the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), for 2015/2017 season. Besides Pinnick, other notable Nigerian Football stakeholders such as former member of the FIFA Executive Committee, Dr. Amos Adamu. Adamu,has also been co-opted […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – President Mohammadu Buhari has written to the Senate asking for approval to appoint 15 Special Advisers. Buhari in a letter to President of the Senate, David Mark which was read on the floor of the red chamber on Tuesday said that the appointment will enable him to do his work as […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu – There are strong indications that the newly-sworn in Governor of Enugu state, Chief Ifeanyi Lawrence Ugwuanyi, is presently in a serious dilemma over appointment of his personal aides and other key government functionaries. Five days after his inauguration, the new Enugu State Chief Executive, is yet to make any pronouncement […]
At least, five people have died while hundreds are still missing after a cruise tourist ship conveying 458 passengers capsized Tuesday on the Yangtze River, in Chinese Hubei region. It was reported that the Captain of Eastern Star ship did not send emergency signal, living the residents around the river to raise the alarm, hence […]
By Ayo Balogun – No fewer than 21 cars, 6 tricycles, 44 shops, five houses and other valuables have been destroyed at Iyana Ipaja area of Lagos, Nigeria as a fuel tanker fell from a bridge and exploded The tragedy occurred around 1:30am on Tuesday when the tanker, with registration number, Lagos KJA 238 XN, […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has been advised to allow political office holders occupying tenured appointments to continue in office if they are effective in their portfolios. The group advised the new President against arbitrarily removing appointees whose positions are protected by law and are yet to expire, saying that doing so would become a huge distraction […]
By Abdul Gafar Bello – Former Governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva appeared off the hook of the alleged N2.45bn fraud charge, against him and in which he was recently re-arraigned, as the Prosecutors Monday, withdrew the case from the court. At Monday hearing the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) at the Federal Ministry of […]
*Residents Give Him Rousing Welcome Abia State Governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, started his first day in office with the flag off of the construction of seven major roads in Aba, the commercial nerve centre of the state, to give the city a face-lift. The roads which are to be completed within the first 100 days […]
The world Football Governing body, FIFA has provisionally banned Concacaf General Secretary, Enrique Sanz from participating in football-related activities. The Scribe coordinates Football in North and Central America as well as the Caribbean. He was one of the seven officials arrested and detained last week by the US Department of Justice on charges of racketeering, […]
By Niyi Adeyi – President Muhammadu Buhari is billed to travel for the first time, after his inauguration last Friday, this week to Chad and Niger for talks on how to finally quench bloody attack by the dreaded Boko Haram insurgents in the country. Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant For Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – The Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu has tasked the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, National Assembly Members-elect on credible opposition that “being in opposition is not a life sentence for any party”. This came even as he asked the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, not to fail on campaign promises. […]
*Pledges More Funds For Health Sector With over N900 million already committed to the fight against the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Africa, the Dangote Foundation has again risen up to the challenges after it offered to defray the cost of quarantining the Nigeria’s returnee health worker volunteers from the Ebola ravaged countries, who […]
