IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu Nigeria Operators of commercial taxi in Enugu, under the auspices of “Enugu State Private Cab/Taxi Operators” have cried out over multiple taxation on them by the state government, saying it has become unbearable for their members. The operators who staged a peaceful protest in their numbers on Tuesday in Enugu, had displayed placards with […]
Oyewale Oyelola A former Super Eagles Coach, Stephen Keshi in the early hours of Wednesday suddenly died in his house in ancient town, Benin City at the age of 54 years. Online Media, TheCable reports that a member of Keshi’s family confirmed his death in a telephone conversation. “He was not ill at all, never […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Disturbed by the slow pace of the trial, Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Justice Danladi Umar has expressed dissatisfaction about the delay tactics being deployed by the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki Counsels and warned against it. As the hearing resumed today with the […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Barely 24 hours after President Muhammadu Buhari left the country for London to seek medical attention and observe holiday, his Vice, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has met behind the closed doors with the Security Chiefs and some top Government officials. The Tuesday meeting which commenced around 2pm, held […]
By Abdul Gaffar Bello ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Kogi State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abuja has dismissed the opposition PDP candidate and former State Governor, Idris Wada’s petition, which is challenging the victory of the incumbent Governor Yahaya Bello. The last Kogi Governorship poll held Saturday, November 21, 2015 with the […]
BAILTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former British world heavyweight Champion Lennox Lewis and actor Will Smith have been assigned among others, the role of pallbearers at late Muhammad Ali’s funeral to hold Friday. Fifty years-old Lewis emerged an undisputed world Champion in 1999, while American Smith featured the late legendary world boxer, in the 2001 […]
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu ENUGU, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The South-east chapter of All Progressive Congress APC, has cautioned leaders of the opposition Peoples Democratic party PDP and its agents in the region against inciting and provocative statements capable of tearing the nation apart. It said: “We have taken notice of inciting and provocative statements […]
Oyewale Oyelola BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A governorship aspirant of All Progressives Party (APC) in the forthcoming Edo State governorship election, Mr Don Obaseki on Monday withdrew from APC primaries slated for June 18, 2016. Mr Don Obaseki in a statement made available to journalists in Benin City alleged that all the 3000 delegates […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – I visited Vienna, Austria some years ago. After five days of going round the city, it occurred to me that I had not come across a single policeman. Yet everything seemed orderly including traffic. I raised my observation with a resident whose acquaintance I had made. She laughed and pointed at […]
…Leads Sanders With 3 million votes; 291 pledged delegates; 523 superdelegates, BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – US former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton is on her way to clinch the Democratic Presidential ticket as she has reached the required number of delegates. The count puts Mrs. Clinton on 2,383, which is the number needed to […]
By Funmilayo Omidiji OGUN, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Wife of the veteran Nollywood (English and Yoruba) actor Jide Kosoko, Henrietta has passed on at 53. Henrietta, who was also a prominent and celebrated Nollywood actress, was believed to have died Monday morning at the popular Sacred Heart Catholic Hospital, Lantoro, Abeokuta. Although, there is no […]
Academic researchers in Nigeria under the aegis of Academic Staff Union of Research Institutions (ASURI), on Monday, stormed the National Assembly in Abuja, protesting against the exclusion of Colleges of Agriculture and other research institutions in the country as beneficiaries of research funds by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND). The researchers who carried placards […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said Releasing the names of persons from whom the federal government has recovered looted funds and assets may jeopardize ongoing investigations. While the government released a list of sums of monies and assets already recovered in the last one year, names of individuals involved were not […]
Oyewale Oyelola Kogi State governorship election tribunal on Monday faulted James Faleke’s petition for his failure to join INEC as party in the petition. The tribunal sitting in Abuja ruled that failure of James Faleke to join INEC in the petition is a major defect to the petition. The ruling also stated that James Faleke […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – If the request in President Muhammadu Buhari’s letter to the National Assembly (NASS) gets the Federal Legislators nod, his Vice, Professor Yemi Osibajo will assume position of the acting President and Commander–in –Chief of Armed Forces in the next 10 days, while he is outside the country. […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Less than 24 hours after it denied reports that President Mohammadu Buhari is sick, the Presidency has issued a statement saying the president will on Monday proceed to London for a 10-day medical leave. A statement by the president’s spokesman Femi Adesina said During the holiday, he will see an […]
By Ayodele Afolabi GOMBE, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, said members of the National Assembly (NASS) insisted on zonal intervention or constituency projects because it is the only way to attract Federal presence to their people. Dogara said if not for constituency projects that were included in […]
By Seun Adebosin LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has condemned the attack on a woman in Kano who was accused of blasphemy and charged the Nigerian Police to get to the root of the matter. MURIC which called for the sanctions against the culprits, stressed that nobody has the right […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Late Muhammad Ali, the world boxing icon’s battled in the last 12 months with an impair health before he eventually died late last Friday, so confirmed by his physician, Abraham Lieberman. According to Dr. Lieberman who was with the boxer, until he breathed his last, confirmed that the last week […]
By Oyewale Oyelola BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is committed to concluding the suspended elections in Rivers, Imo, Kogi and Kano states which were disrupted by violence not later than 31st July, 2016.. A statement signed by the Director, Voter Education and Publicity, Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi on Sunday said the […]
