Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja The Senate on Thursday concluded the amendment of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board Act, which made the validity period of the results to three years. The Senate adopted the recommendation of the Committee on Education that the UTME results should have a validity period of three years to reduce the financial burden on […]
Ayodele Afolabi Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has inaugurated the Senate Ad-hoc Committee to investigate the use of the fund that has been allocated to the Humanitarian Crisis in the North East and promised that all the facts of the case will be exposed. Speaking at the event, Saraki stated that the committee led by […]
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday departed the Nnmadi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, for Berlin, Germany, on an official visit from Oct. 13 to 15. The president, before his departure, was briefed on the release of the 21 abducted Chibok schoolgirls by the Director-General, Department of Security Services (DSS), Alhaji Lawal Daura. The president, while expressing […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared Mr Goodie Ibru wanted for alleged money laundering and diversion of funds amounting into billions of naira. The commission also accused him of diverting billions of Naira and assets of Ikeja Hotels Plc, owners of Sheraton Lagos, and Federal Palace Hotels, […]
Ayodele Afolabi ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The bill seeking to make debates for Presidential and Governorship candidates of major political parties in the country mandatory ahead of the 2019 general election has passed second reading. The bill, tagged: “Nigerian Political Debates Commission Bill, 2015, was sponsored by Senator Abdulfatai Buhari, (APC, Oyo North). In […]
Ayodele Afolabi ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, has promised that 8th Senate will work to streamline Nigeria’s multiple taxation system to improve the ease of doing business in the country. Speaking at a dialogue at the 22nd Edition of the Nigerian Economic Summit in Abuja, the Senate President, while […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Leveraging its expansive footprint, pan-African banking group, United Bank for Africa Plc (“UBA” or “the Bank”), announced its unaudited Third Quarter Financial Results, showing a 7% year-on-year growth in profit before tax to N62 billion despite the challenging macro-economic environment. This represents an impressive 18.2% annualized return on average equity. The Bank recorded an […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria is in dire financial straits. Nothing better typifies this than the free fall of the Naira in an import- dependent country. Between 2013 and 2014, the currency was quite stable at N160 to the dollar. Then came 2015, the year American soothsayers had predicted will experience the demise of […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Syrian rebels have established a secret confinement camp for former Islamic State (IS) fighters and their families. Already, 300 defectors and captured combatants, including many Europeans, are presently being held at the camp operated by the rebel – Jaysh al-Tahrir group. The group Commander, Mohammad al-Ghabi, said his organization planned […]
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, ENUGU ENUGU NIGERIA, (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Less than two weeks the Enugu State House of Assembly, nullified the just concluded teachers recruitment exercise in the state over alleged corruption that marred the assignment carried out by the Enugu state Universal Basic Education Board, ESUBEB, the House has reversed itself. African Examiner recalled […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Syrian rebels have established a secret confinement camp for former Islamic State (IS) fighters and their families. Already, 300 defectors and captured combatants, including many Europeans, are presently being held at the camp operated by the rebel – Jaysh al-Tahrir group. The group Commander, Mohammad al-Ghabi, said his organization […]
By Ignatius Okpara BORNO, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At least, eight persons have been killed, while 15 others sustained various degrees of injury in a bomb blast that occurred Wednesday morning around Muna garage Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, North east Nigeria. Head, Media and Public Relations Officer of National Emergency Management Agency, (NEMA), Sani […]
By Ignatius Okpara UMUAHIA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Tuesday arraigned a chieftain of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), Prince Benjamin Benedict Apugo before Justice Osiagor of the Federal High Court, Umuahia Abia State on a three count charge bothering on obtaining by false pretense to the […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Senate Tuesday, during its plenary condemned the invasion of the homes of some judges last weekend and their arrest by the operatives of Department of State Services (DSS). The upper legislative chamber’s position emanated from the motion on urgent National importance moved by Senator Joshua Lidani, […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has nominated Sidi Bage and Paul Jauro as Justices of the Supreme Court. The letter of nomination was read Tuesday by Senate President Bukola Saraki at the upper legislative chamber plenary session. The President’s nomination is against the background of the approaching retirement of the Chief Justice of […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen, Abuja ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former President Olusegun Obasanjo again visited Presidential Villa Abuja Monday, for a visit and meeting with President Muhammadu Buahri. Obasanjo’s closed door meeting with President Buhari lasted barely for an hour. The former President who arrived the Presidential Villa with an aide, and one of his daughters, […]
ABAKALIKI NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) Ebonyi state governor, David Nweze Umahi, has warned Fulani herdsman flouting his order of not wandering with cattle within the state, saying they should desist from the act or face arrest. He sounded the warning weekend in Abakaliki, the state capital while inaugurating a committee to check conflicts between communities and […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Although there is need to rid the judiciary of corruption, the approach adopted by security agencies was totally wrong and unacceptable, the Chairman, Senate Committee on the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Otunba Dino Melaye, said on Sunday. Melaye, representing Kogi West on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the […]
Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, has called for a thorough training which emphasizes character;ethics and values among the youths so as to enable them fully develop their potentials and render quality service to the society. Dickson, who made this call at a dinner hosted by the Nigeria Fellowship of Evangelical Students (NIFES) in Abuja on Sunday, noted that it is difficult to talk about the greatness […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari’s strategists, if they are at work at all, are chasing ants and ignoring the elephant in the room. They do him great disservice. Their oversight is hubristically determined either by incapacity or a vendetta-induced distraction. It is time they changed the game and the narrative; time they […]
