By Eghes Eyieyien BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Naira is taking an unprecedented bashing in our parallel Foreign Exchange Markets. In the Parallel Market, the Dollar sold for as high as N280 and the Pound Sterling N398 some days back. A friend of mine who travelled to the U.S. to attend the child’s graduation […]
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, ENUGU BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – When Rangers International football club of Enugu was established about 45 years ago, 1970 precisely, the joy of soccer enthusiasts in the entire Igbo nation knew no bound as they saw it as a virile institution and source of inspiration to the people. Shortly at the […]
*As Rivers APC Hails Buhari Over Her Appointment BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Mrs. Ibim Semenitari has said her priority is to actualize President Buhari’s development vision for the Niger Delta region. She said this on Tuesday in Port Harcourt when the outgoing Managing Director, […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has described the N6.8 trillion 2016 federal budget presented by President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday as a big fraud and executive conspiracy tailored towards mortgaging the future of the nation. The party queried President Buhari’s decision to borrow N2 trillion, the biggest in the history of the […]
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Asaba Commercial Tricycle operators otherwise known as (Keke), on Tuesday took to the streets of Asaba, the Delta state capital, to protest what they described as government exploitation through double ticketing. The protesters had expressed displeasure over the sudden increase in their daily ticket payment from 150 to 300 naira without pre information to […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lagos State Government has lifted the order restricting vehicular and human movement during the December monthly Environmental Sanitation Exercise expected to come up on Saturday, 26th December, 2015 to allow free movement of persons during the end of year festive seasons and joyous transition into the New Year. The State Commissioner for […]
By Prof. R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria. As we begin a new year, we would like to thank every community worldwide for their fervent prayers for Nigeria in 2015. Their prayers produced General Muhammad Buhari as the current Nigeria’s President. It will be recalled that President Muhammad Buhari (PMB) is a recycled military […]
PROTOCOLS I am honoured and privileged to present the 2016 Budget proposal. This is my first address before this joint session of the National Assembly. I have come here today, not only to address members of the National Assembly, but also to speak directly to the men and women who placed us here. I know […]
*Says Alleged Assault On S/Ijaw Chairman Laughable The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State has said that all those who caused the violence which led to wanton loss of lives and property during the cancelled election in Southern Ijaw and other parts of the state on December 5 would face the full weight […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Boko Haram’s violence and attacks against civilians in northeastern Nigeria and its neighboring countries have forced more than 1 million children out of school, UNICEF has said. The number of children missing out on their education due to the conflict adds to the estimated 11 million children of primary school […]
President Mohammadu Buhari has presented N6.08trn 2016 budget proposal to the joint session of the National Assembly even as he promised that the ongoing fuel scarcity will be soon be a thing of the past. In the budget proposal, Buhari earmarked N396bn to education, ministry of health got N296bn while Defence received N294bn. Detail soon… […]
…As Senate Concurs to Self-Regulation by Journalists Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja As President Muhammadu Buhari presents the N6 trillion 2016 budget estimates to a joint session of the National Assembly (NASS) on Tuesday, the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Sunday urged the Federal Lawmakers to make its own share of the budget open to all Nigerians. […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja Ahead of 2016 budget presentation on Tuesday by President Muhamnadu Buhari to the joint session of the National Assembly (NASS), all staff of the legislative complex and organizations running private businesses within the premises, have been directed to stay away from the area today. According to a circular issued to that effect […]
By Abdul Gaffar Bello A Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has reserved ruling on the appeal filed before it by the Taraba State Governor, Darius Ishaku. The leading Judge, Abdul Aboki, Monday declined ruling after listening to adoption of written addresses by counsels to all parties. The State Governor’s victory about two months ago […]
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has uncovered a plot by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State to unleash another terror during the January 9, 2016 rerun in Southern Ijaw Local Governmnt Area and other 101 units across the state. Chieftains of the APC in conjunction with some ex-militants, that were allegedly responsible for […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked the Chairman of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Mr Bassey Dan Abia. Bassey Dan Abia, an indigene of Akwa Ibom state, was appointed by former President Goodluck Jonathan in 2013. Following the development, Mrs Ibim Seminitari, a former commissioner of information in the administration of Rotimi Amaechi, former governor of Rivers […]
By Bolaji Kazeem Since the inception of the present democracy, ineptitude, corruption and indiscipline gradually crept into our ways of life eroding the cultural values that we held in high esteem such as morality and discipline in our society. The tendency to accumulate wealth through any means had been fostered on our young ones and […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, has granted bail to the former National Security Adviser, (NSA) Col. (rtd) Sambo Dasuki and four others, standing trial over 19 count charge of money laundering and criminal breach of trust. Others granted bail Monday by Justice Peter Affect were former Dasuki’s Director of Finance […]
President Muhammadu Buhari said Monday in Abuja that his administration was taking urgent and appropriate actions to restore order, due process and probity to the procurement processes of the nation’s Armed Forces. At at a meeting with the British Secretary of State for Defence, Mr. Michael Fallon, President Buhari lamented that the procurement of equipment […]
