President Muhammadu Buhari will leave Abuja Sunday for Tehran where to participate in the 3rd Gas Exporting Countries’ Forum (GECF) opening in the Iranian capital on Monday, November 23, 2015. Buhari and the leaders of Iran, Russia, Qatar, the Netherlands, Venezuela, Oman, Algeria, the United Arab Emirates, Bolivia and other member-countries of the GECF are […]
The menace of Boko Haram insurgence is not affecting only the Lake Chad Basin Commission member countries, but the entire West African sub region, said General Seyni Garba of Niger Republic. Gen Garba said this Friday at a meeting between him and the Nigerian Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Gabriel Olonisakin on how to […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen Nigerians have been tasked to take possession of the “war against corruption”, as well as the “war against terrorism” so as to achieve the change promised by the present administration and achieve a new Nigeria. Information and Culture Minister, Alhaji Lai Mohammed gave the task Friday, during his meeting with the Director-General […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja Prominent members of the Senate Unity Forum, loyal to Senator Ahmad Lawan(APC Yobe North) were Thursday part of the committees inaugurated at the National Assembly. They were part of the chairmen and members of 10 committees inaugurated by the senate president, Bukola Saraki, contrary to stance taken by one of them last […]
Aung San Suu Kyi writes in Letters from Burma: “I have never ceased to be moved by the sense of the world lying quiescent and vulnerable, waiting to be awakened by the light of the new day quivering just beyond the horizon…” That new day and awakening arrived on November 8 on Burma’s (Myanmar) 2015 […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate has expressed concern over what it called illegal plundering of the nation’s solid minerals by local and foreign miners which it said was recently confirmed by the permanent secretary of the federal Ministry of Solid Minerals while briefing President Muhammadu Buhari. The sponsor of the […]
UNICEF Ambassadors Orlando Bloom, Liam Neeson, Sir Roger Moore, Shakira, Ricky Martin, Priyanka Chopra, Novak Djokovic, Mia Farrow, Ishmael Beah, Susan Sarandon and Angelique Kidjo join forces to fight today’s unfair world for children The world remains a deeply unfair place for the poorest and most disadvantaged children despite major advances since the adoption of the […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As part of measures aimed at ensuring a proper coordination of security operations and thus guaranteeing a hitch-free election, and credible electioneering process in the forthcoming Kogi State governorship election, the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Solomon Arase has deployed 15, 969 police officers, DIG Sotonye Leroy Wakama, the Deputy Inspector-General […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State recorded a major boost to his re-election bid yesterday when former governorship aspirant, Arc Reuben Okoya and over 10,000 others from various communities in the Bayelsa Central Senatorial District endorsed him for the December 5 election in the state. From one community to the […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State said yesterday that it has uncovered a smear plot by the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Timipre Sylva, to air a documentary denouncing the performance of the incumbent governor, Seriake Dickson, ahead of the December 5 election in the state. Director of […]
President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Abuja reaffirmed his Administration’s commitment to the Federal Government’s privatization and commercialization policy. Mr. President gave the assurance while speaking at an audience with Peugeot’s Executive Vice President for Africa and the Middle-East, Mr. Jean-Christophe Quemard. President Buhari however stressed, that greater consideration would now be given to the technical […]
Former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and National Orientation, Mrs. Nkechi Ejele has been invited and being questioned by the anti-graft body, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) over alleged financial impropriety. Specifically, Mrs. Ejele is being investigated on the roles she played in the alleged misappropriation of the Subsidy Re-investment […]
The Lagos State Deputy Governor, Dr (Mrs) Idiat Oluranti Adebule is expected to lead other Muslim Women across the country in the 8th biennial National Conference of the Criterion (Association of Muslim Women in Business and the Professions) slated for November 18 to 21, 2015. In a statement issued by the National Amirah and Public […]
By Niyi Adeyi Nigerians have been assured that under the present administration, no Federal Government-owned media organization will deny the opposition the opportunity to air their views. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed gave the assurance Thursday at his maiden meeting with heads of parastatals under his Ministry, at the Radio House, Abuja, […]
By Ignatius Okpara, Enugu Traditional rulers in the South- Eastern Nigeria, have advised their dethroned Chairman, Eze Cletus Ilomuanya to toe the line of honour and stop parading himself as the chairman It would be recalled that the Imo State Government, in 2014 ousted Eze Ilomuanya, who was then the traditional ruler of Obinugwu Autonomous […]
By Ignatius Okpara, Abakaliki The Executive Secretary of Ebonyi state Emergency Management Agency, (SEMA), Pastor Ken Oziomaeze and its Chairman, Evangelist Ephraim Ononye, are presently fighting each other to finish over who controls the outfit. AFRICAN EXAMINER gathered from a source close to the agency that the cold war between the two leaders of the […]
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) confirms Wednesday that troops of 101 Task Force Battalion, 7 Division Garrison, along Lagos Street Maiduguri, Borno State, have arrested another “declared wanted” Boko Haram terrorists leader, named Abubakar Sadiq. The suspect who was nabbed Tuesday, the Military indicated works as a night watchman for one Muhammad Daggash. DHQ disclosed that […]
By Ayo Balogun, ABUJA BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has cautioned the APC-led government and the police to note that there is a limit to which the people of Kogi State can stomach the unlawful harassment and detention of its members in the state ahead of Saturday’s governorship election. The […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kinsmen of ex- President Goodluck Jonathan in Ogbia kingdom, Ogbia Local Government Area of the state, have expressed their determination to work for the re-election of Bayelsa State governor, Seriake Dickson, as a reward for his performance in his first term. The governor and his entourage were in Ogbia kingdom […]
By Eric Ojo, Abuja Policy makers in Africa have reaffirmed their commitment to accelerate infrastructure development, strengthen regional integration and boost economic growth across the continent. Deliberations on the need for countries in Africa to develop closer partnerships across borders and cooperate more effectively in efforts geared towards fast-tracking development in the continent has been […]
