LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Arik air has shut down its operations in Nigeria and West African sub region. The development followed huge debts the airline owed its clients – the aviation fuel suppliers and and its insurance companies. It is believed that the carrier is also stressed by other pressing debts. Arik’s disrupted operations […]
YENAGOA, BAYELSA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A socio-political organisation, Bayelsa Integrated Farmers Union, has accused the Minister of State for Agriculture, Senator HeinekenLokpobiri, over alleged lack of support for farmers in the state. The group was reacting to a comment credited to the minister at the weekend when he called on Bayelsans to take to farming as a means of fighting hunger in view of the […]
LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, Dr. Boboye Oyeyemi has assured Nigerians, especially the Muslim faithful of safe Sallah celebration, saying that adequate logistics provisions have been made to ensure removal of obstructions and crash-free celebration. According to Bisi Kazeem, Head, Media Relations and Strategy, FRSC in […]
LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Pan-African banking group, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc at the weekend carted home two very important laurels at the annual Businessday Banking Awards, winning the Best Bank in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Best Bank in support of Agriculture. The first award, the “Best Bank in sub-Saharan Africa award is […]
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Owerri OWERRI NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kidnappers camps, belonging to two deadly cult groups, namely, “De-Well” and “De-Gbam”, situated in a forest at Umoubi and Umudike communities, both in Ohaji Egbema Council Area of Imo State have been raided and cleared by troops, just as two leaders of the gang were killed during […]
BY IGNATIUS OKPARA, Owerri OWERRI NIGERIA, (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Residents of Amakohia axis of Owerri, the Imo state capital, South east Nigeria, weekend deserted their homes, as a result of an overwhelming flood, occasioned by a heavy downpour which submerged at least, 30 residential buildings in the area. It was gathered that the disaster, has […]
BAYELSA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson has enjoined Muslim faithful to use the period of Eid el Kabir to pray for the unity, peace and prosperity of the of the Country. He has also urged them to propagate the message of love, which remains the cornerstone and overriding principle for […]
Ayodele Adegbuyi, Ado Ekiti EDO, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) A member of the seventh House of Representatives, Hon Bamidele Faparusi, has advised the security agencies not to dismiss with the wave of hands, Edo State Governor Comrade Adams Oshiomhole’s accusation that over 8,000 militants had infiltrated Edo State to destabilize the governorship election. The Independent National […]
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu ENUGU NIGERIA, (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu state police command has nabbed a fake Army Brigadier- General, identified as Sunday Gbamis from Ilorin kwara state. According to the state police public Relations officer PPRO, Ebere Amarizu who disclosed this to African Examiner on Friday in Enugu, the suspect was arrested on […]
Three out of the 76,000 pilgrims from Nigeria for 2016 Hajj exercise has been reported dead by National Hajj Commission of Nigeria. (NAHCON). The Head of Medical Team, Dr Ibrahim Kana confirmed this to all stakeholders during a pre Arafat meeting held at Makkah. Kana, who said two of the pilgrims died in Madinah and […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The crowds on the streets of the Venezuelan capital, Caracas on September 1 seeking the ouster of President Nicholas Maduro were impressive. They stretched as long as the eyes could see. Also impressive were the crowds insisting Maduro serves out his mandate. The tactics of turning out crowds on the […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said resorting to violence will not resolve the Niger Delta issue, instead, to urge disenchanted with the plight of the region to embrace peaceful tools of seeking redress. Speaking at the command screening of the action thriller movie ”Oloibiri’ in Abuja […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria has recorded her first medal at the ongoing Rio Paralympic as one of its athletes, Latifat Tijani won medal in women’s Power Lifting. Specifically, Tijani won silver in the women’s 45kg after lifting 106kg. The Nigerian representative trailed behind Chinese Hu Dandan, who broke the world paralympic record of […]
By Sufuyan Ojeifo, Abuja Edo people have become very politically enlightened and there is no amount of shenanigans and sweet talks that will mitigate their consciousness and readiness to effect a change of government in the State on September 28, or any other date that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) may be corralled to […]
Steve Orji, United Kingdom, Brainpac@yahoo.com The post-military era of 1979-85 was only the beginning of Nigeria’s deepening social and economic woes. Nigerians barely survived the Shehu Shagari’ “Austerity measure”, the signature byeword to that era of hunger and spontaneous decline of Nigeria’ middle-class. That era no less, triggered long-range economic shocks that lived into the second […]
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu ENUGU NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lack of fund has completely crippled activities of the National Emergency management Agency, NEMA in the six geo political zones of Nigeria, as most of the offices, including that of south east and south- south zones, had not embarked on any programme since the beginning this […]
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu Abakaliki, Ebonyi -State Nigeria – There was a Mild drama at the hallowed chamber of the Ebonyi State House of Assembly on Thursday when a Caretaker Committee Chairman designate, Mr. Henry Eze, could not recite the Nigeria National Anthem and pledge seven times, as requested by the lawmakers who were screening him. Eze, […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Few Hours after it insisted Saturday’s governorship election in Edo State would hold, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed the election by two weeks. Earlier on Thursday, the electoral body insisted that it was ready for the conduct of the election despite the security warnings. However, reports reaching […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor of Bayelsa State, Henry Seriake Dickson has directed the due process office to ensure the payment of 50 per cent to all pensioners in the state, along with salaries of civil servants for the month of August. He also directed that a list of all the pensioners be published […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Indian special court in the city of Mumbai has sentenced a young man to death over a fatal acid attack on a woman at a busy railway station three years ago. The victim Preeti Rathi, who was 23 at the time of the attack, was murdered, on arrival from […]
