The anti-graft body, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) continues with its trailing of suspected corrupt government officials, as its operatives Monday arrested the former Kebbi State Governor, Usman Dakingari over alleged laundering of N3.8 Billion. Dakingari who was elected the Governor of the North West State, under the platform of the opposition PDP, after […]
By Abdul Gaffar Bello The appeal Court in Abuja has adjourned indefinitely ruling on suit fileD before it, by the Senate President, Bukola Saraki over the case of false asset declaration and other 13 count charge he is answering before the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) Tribunal. Saraki who had failed in the similar attempt, […]
By Ignatius Okpara, Awka A devastating flood has wrecked serious havoc on seven communities in Anambra West Council Area, including submerging several buildings; destroying farmlands as well as household items valued at millions of naira. Chairman of the local government Area, Chief Simon Onuora, who spoke to newsmen weekend in Nzam near Onitsha, named the […]
By Ignatius Okpara Management of the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Ituku/Ozalla, Enugu has appealed to its striking Doctors to call off the industrial action and return to duty. The management said the call was in the interest of Nigerians, who are dying on daily basis as a result of the absence of doctors […]
By Niyi Adeyi The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) says it is constrained to raise the alarm on the frightening situation in Kuka Reta Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp, some kilometres from Damaturu, the Yobe State capital, owing to dangers inherent in the exposure of IDPs to such inhuman conditions. MURIC lamented that apart from hunger, […]
By Niyi Adeyi The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has replied the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which accused it Sunday, of selective justice in its anti-corruption crusade, vowing that President Muhammadu Buhari’s Administration will not “micro-manage” the anti-corruption agencies. To this end, the ruling party asserted that it was wrong for the PDP to […]
These are indeed trying times for embattled immediate-past governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswam. Barely one week after being quizzed for over nine hours by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for alleged misappropriation of State funds while he was in office, a contingent of fierce-looking police officers from the FCT Police Command on […]
By Eze Chukwuemeka Eze Preamble and Political Life Contrary to the expectations of Chief Nyesom Wike and his gang of miserable ingrates, their ferocious campaign to blackmail, disparage and portray Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi as a very corrupt person and unfit to be appointed as a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria failed to […]
As desperate asylum seekers continue to flock Europe, Slovenia authority Sunday indicates it will only allow 2,500 migrants to cross its borders daily. The figure is however half the number, neighbour Croatia has requested for. Slovenia Interior Ministry Secretary of State, Bostjan Sefic announced that the country could not accept Croatia’s request to take 5,000, […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has started reacting to the arrest last Friday by the ant-graft body, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of one its Chieftains, former Akwa Ibom State Governor, Godswill Akpabio, saying the move was aimed at weakening the party and distract it from wrestling power in 2019 […]
A Former Minister of Education and Founding Chairman of the Labour Party (LP) Dr. Olaiya Oni is dead. The late politician died Sunday in a hospital, in Owo, Ondo State, South West Nigeria, at the age of 74. Oni’s health degenerated about three days ago and he was rushed from his Ise-Akoko home to an […]
By Ridwan Adeola Yusuf His critics would say Messi’s talent is natural; CR7’s is as a result of hard-work. Yes, they’re correct! But should we not appreciate hard work as well? They would say even if Ronaldo scores 100 goals (in one season), he can never be as good as Messi. But the fact is […]
By Ayo Balogun BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Following a request by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) for information on the spending of recovered assets stolen by Late General Sani Abacha, the World Bank has said that it needs additional time to provide [SERAP] with a more comprehensive response. In a letter dated […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A clarion call has gone to President Muhammadu Buhari on the need to allow former governor of Bayelsa State and now candidate of the All progressives Congress (APC) in the state, Timipre Sylva, face prosecution for his cases before the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Sylva, who was governor […]
BALTIMORE< MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State, Chief Serena Dokubo-Spiff, has raised alarm over the transfer of the state commissioner of Police which he said was part of a plot to rig the December 5 governorship election in the state. In a statement in Yenagoa, the state […]
Guinea’s incumbent President Alpha Conde won the country’s second democratic election, but Guinea’s opposition parties have rejected the results and called for demonstrations. Bakary Fofana Fofana, the head of Guinea’s Independent National Electoral Commission, announced President Alpha Conde’s re-election victory late Saturday. Fofana said before the constitutional court’s final validation of the results, the electoral […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) Indications emerged on Saturday that the Bayelsa State governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Timipre Sylva, is broke and may have resorted to selling his properties to raise funds ahead of the December 5 election. A source privy to the development who played a major role during the last […]
By Ignatius Okpara, Enugu A Socio -political association based in South- East Nigeria, under the umbrella of Njiko Igbo Forum, has described the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, leaders as coward and bunch of ingrates. The group, while reacting to PDP’s zoning of its 2019 Presidential ticket to the North, said it was a height […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday quizzed the immediate past Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Senator Godswill Akpabio. Akpabio is allegedly being investigated over N101.8 billion fraud. Reports said the Senate Minority Leader was ushered into the EFCC headquarters for interrogation between the hours of 5pm and […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – FBN Capital Limited, the Investment Banking and Asset Management subsidiary of FBN Holdings Plc, will once again host key stakeholders at the 5thedition of its Annual Investor Conference, taking place on the 27th of October 2015 at the Intercontinental Hotel in Lagos. The theme of this year’s event is“Reinventing the […]
