LAGOS. NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode has unveiled the Oshodi regeneration project, which will see to the development of the Oshodi Transport Interchange at a cost of over N22.4 billion ($70 million). Ambode on Tuesday said the plan of his administration to transform Oshodi into a world class transport interchange […]
Oyewale Oyelola Kwara state government will on Friday, May 27, 2016 stage cultural exhibition to showcase cultural heritage of the state. Our correspondent gathered that the exhibition is initiative of SPecial Adviser on Culture and Tourism to Governor Abdulfatai Ahmed, Femi Adebayo. The event tagged ASA WAA will feature exhibition of cultural heritage and tourist […]
By Owei Lakemfa BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The hair-splitting over the teaching of Religious Studies and National Values in Primary and Secondary Schools, continue with the regulatory Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC) entering the fray. In a rather combative statement by its Executive Secretary, Prof. Ismail Junaidu, NERDC described most of the reports on […]
FirstBank’s Women Basketball Team – The Elephant Girls – has won the 2015/2016 Zenith Bank Women’s Basketball Championship for the seventh time. The tournament which dunked off on March 18, 2016 saw the Elephant Girls maintain a perfect start and take the lead in every game across the Federal Capital Territory, Asaba, and the finals […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Pan African banking group, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc has partnered Konga, Nigeria’s leading e-commerce company and Innovectives Nigeria Limited to create a seamless delivery and payment system by integrating mobile point of sale solution into Konga’s delivery system. Mobile POS (mPOS) which is powered by UBA PLC and MasterCard […]
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu Ten days after two junior secondary school students of the Federal Government College, Okposi, in Ohaozara council Area of Ebonyi State, were abducted by unknown persons, their decomposing bodies have been found in a local river in the area. AFRICAN EXAMINER recalled that the late students, Tochukwu Ene and Chukwuemeka […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared a former Deputy Governor of Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore wanted. Omisore according to a post on the agency’s Facebook account was declared wanted in connection with a case of “receiving and misappropriating the sum of over N700, 000,000.00 from the […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Mr. Tor Uja as the new Executive Secretary (ES) of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission (NCPC). The appointment which takes immediate effect was confirmed in a statement issued Tuesday, by an Assistant Director (Press) in the Office of the Secretary to the […]
By Seun Adebosin LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has declared the factional Caretaker Committee of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) illegal. Justice Ibrahim Buba ruled that the Committee constituted last Saturday, in the controversial non-elective National Convention of the party in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital […]
By Niyi Adeyi LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – After its remand application was granted, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has moved former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, to its Lagos office, Ikoyi for more investigations. The anti-graft agency had Monday approached Lagos Chief Magistrate, Mrs. Bola Osunsanmi, requesting her to grant an application […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government (FG) has constituted a 10- man Technical Committee to look into the “synergizing and harmonizing” the mode and procedure for prompt payment of pension benefits in the Public Service in Nigeria. Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HCSF), Mrs. Winifred Oyo-Ita announced this Tuesday in […]
YENAGOA, BAYELSA STATE (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The organised labour movement in Bayelsa State has suspended its three days old strike over unpaid salaries and pension arrears. A statement by Daniel Iworiso-Markson, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Henry Seriake Dickson, said the decision to shelve the industrial action was reached after a marathon meeting held on Monday which had in […]
Protests against Kenya’s electoral commission took place in several cities Monday, with local media reporting at least three demonstrators were killed in western Kenya. In Nairobi, riot police formed a line around the commission headquarters, waiting much of the afternoon to deter the latest in what have become weekly protests. The protesters never reached the […]
By Prof R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria On Sunday May 22, 2016 the comrade Ayuba Wabba-led faction of the Nigerial Labour Congress, NLC, announced that it had called of its nationwide strike against the increase in pump price of petroleum products and hike in electricity tariff. They had embarked on the strike since […]
Oyewale Oyelola The Federal Government in 2006 established Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) with main responsibility of regulating the Maritime industry in Nigeria. NIMASA Act 2007 empowers the agency to oversee Maritime Safety Seafarers Standards and Security, Maritime Labour, Shipping Regulation, Promotion of Commercial Shipping and Cobatage activities, Pollution Prevention and Control in […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria’s Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami has affirmed that Boko Haram’s capacity to hold territories has been totally decimated. He made this Monday in his address to the 25th Session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, in Vienna, Austria. The Session is holding from 23rd to […]
By Ridwan AdeolaYusuf BAILTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Taking true to his middle name, Kelechi Iheanacho has been showing signs of PROMISE in his early days with Manchester City, netting in pre-season games against Italian sides, AC Milan and AS Roma. He showcased himself in the Premier League when he sealed all three points late […]
Bayelsa State Governor, Henry Seriake Dickson has described the setting up and immediate inauguration of a seven-member National Caretaker Committee of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) as a good development. According to him, such was a right step towards repositioning the party for the 2019 general elections. A statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Daniel Iworiso-Markson, […]
Fresh facts emerging from the Bayelsa State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal in Nyanya area of Abuja, have revealed that witnesses of Governor Henry Seriake Dickson and a second respondent have been receiving threats by faceless individuals and group of persons. The governor’s lead Defence counsel, Mr. Tayo Oyetibo (SAN), who made the revelations on Monday, said it was […]
By Niyi Adeyi LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Lagos State Chief Magistrate, Mrs. Bola Osunsanmi, has granted the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) application to hold further, a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode in its custody. Fani Kayode has been held by the EFCC two weeks ago and he is being investigated […]
