Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – Ahead of next Tuesday resumption of the House of Representatives from its long recess, Speaker Yakubu Dogara and his Consolidation Group has announced the name of other principal officers termed “Equity Team”. The spokesman for the group, Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin who addressed journalists on Saturday in Abuja said that Dogara formula […]
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu – Determined to fish out all ghost workers in the 17 Council Areas of Enugu state, Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi has inaugurated an 11-man committee on Local Government Staff Audit and Biometrics Data Capturing Exercise. Inaugurating the committee Friday, the governor, mandated them to discharge their duties diligently in order to save […]
The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) now has a new National President. He is Mr. Waheed Odusile, who has just been sworn-in as 16th President of the union alongside his executive elected at NUJ’s 5th National Triennial Delegates Conference in Abuja. Odusile beat five other presidential contenders, namely, Rotimi Obamuwagun, Dele Atunbi, Uzaka Seifa (USA), […]
By Ayo Balogun (African Examiner) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has summoned ex-president Goodluck Jonathon’s adviser on Niger-Delta for questioning over allegation of stealing and embezzlement of government funds while in office. A letter written by the EFCC ordered Kuku and two other persons to appear before the commission next week to […]
Ahead of the December 5 governorship election in Bayelsa State, the first civilian governor of the state, Chief Diepreye Alamieyesigha, says Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson deserves a second tenure as governor of the state. Chief Alamieyeseigha, in an interactive session with Journalists in Yenagoa, described Governor Dickson’s performance in the last three years as very […]
By Ayo Balogun – President Pierre Nkurunziza has emerged the winner of Burudian controversial Presidential election for the third term. The provisional result available with the embattled eastern African country’s Electoral Commission, indicated that incumbent Nkurunziza won about 70 per cent of the total valid vote cast, leaving the opposition candidate, Agathon Rwasa winning about 19 per […]
Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson has, again, condemned the use of youths as political thugs and instruments of violence. He also called on all well-meaning individuals and corporate organisations to partner with his administration to develop sports in the state. The governor, represented by the State Deputy Governor, Rear Admiral Gboribiogha John Jonah (Retd), […]
By Tajudeen Balogun, Head, African Examiner, Nigeria Bureau – Historically, Nigerians are not strange to the new President traveling abroad (either on invitation or request) for smooth bilateral socio-economic and political relationship or to seek for Direct Foreign Investment (DFI). On record, the former President Olusegun Obasanjo first four years in office (1999-2003) unarguably has […]
President Muhammadu Buhari pledged Friday in Abuja that Nigeria will continue to work in close collaboration with the African Union and the international community for the achievement of reconciliation and lasting peace in South Sudan. Speaking at an audience with the United Nations’ High Representative for South Sudan, Alfa Oumar Konare, President Buhari urged the […]
By Odimegwu Onwumere – The other day, Chief Edwin Clark who is regarded as Ijaw leader having also served as Minister for Information, advised General Muhammadu Buhari not to allow the amnesty programme instituted for the purpose of rehabilitating ex-militants in the Niger Delta to go on errand. Just immediately this news filtered into the […]
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Umuahia – The Abia state chapter of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), has raised the alarm over alleged moves by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the state to influence the decision of the election petition tribunal sitting in Umuahia. The party, in a statement signed by its chairman, Mazi Charles Ezeh, […]
By Ayo Balogun – The Lagos Taskforce on Environment and Special Offence Unit has arrested 132 miscreants across the state. Fifty-nine of the arrested miscreants have been arraigned at the Special Offence Court, Alausa while 23 under aged miscreants had been referred to the correctional homes for rehabilitation in the state Ministry of Youth and […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen – The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has reversed itself, over the recent ‘bailout’ approved by President Muhammadu Buhari, for the State Governors to clear their workers’ salaries arrears. NGF Chairman and Zamfara State’s Governor Abdul Aziz Yari, Thursday after the Governors’ meeting in Abuja, Wednesday, explained that over N700 Billion recently shared […]
By Collins Amadi – The Rivers State chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the ongoing campaign of calumny against the former State’s Governor Chibuike Amaechi and his alleged indulgence by President Muhammadu Buhari, as a sign of cowardice by a ‘drowning crime suspect’. In its reaction to a recent statement credited […]
Francis Sagbama – Since the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) fixed December 5 for the governorship election in Bayelsa State, all eyes have been on Bayelsa, the Jerusalem of the Ijaw nation. Political activities have also heightened with some disgruntled members of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) in the state decamping to the All Progressives Congress […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – Senators belonging to the Like Minds Group has said they found the decision of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to invite the wife of the Senate President, Mrs Toyin Saraki, in connection with an unknown investigation very curious. The senators in a statement signed on their behalf by Senator […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – Amina Zakari, the acting Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC is in constitutional crisis as the tenure her tenure as National Commissioner ended on 21st July, 2015. As at press time, Zakari has not bowed out fueling concern that rule of law is being trampled upon. An All Progressives […]
By Francis Sagbama – In sane climes, Chief Timipre Sylva, self- acclaimed opposition leader in Bayelsa State would bury his head in shame for putting Bayelsa, the glory of all lands in reverse gear for about five years. As governor of the littoral state between 2007 and 2012, a period characterized with oil boom, the […]
Bill Cosby lost his latest bid to fend off a lawsuit accusing him of sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles in 1974, as the California Supreme Court on Wednesday denied the comedian’s petition to review the case. The accuser’s attorney, Gloria Allred, said the decision cleared the way for […]
The Corporate Council on Africa (CCA), the premier American organization devoted to US-Africa business relations, on Wednesday refuted the report alleging that President Buhari questioned the participation of Mr Tony Elumelu and other Nigerian business leaders in the meeting hosted by the U.S Chambers of Commerce in partnership with the CCA for the visiting Nigerian […]
