BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Heritage Bank has embarked on mass retrenchment of its workers with 400 staff sacked in December. Investigations on Monday indicated that more workers are penciled for sack. The bank, in October 2014, acquired Enterprise Bank with about N56bn ($281m). A top management source in the bank, who pleaded anonymity, said […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – With 24 hours to the expiration of his mandate, President Yahya Jammeh is digging in. He has declared a 90-day state of emergency. But Nigeria has deployed a warship in readiness to launch an attack. The warship, NSS Unity is on the move in readiness to launch an attack. The […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Army said an Air Force fighter jet on a mission to take out Boko Haram militants mistakenly bombed a refugee camp, killing some humanitarian aid workers of the International Committee of Red Cross, ICRC, and the Medicines Sans Frontiers, MSF, and some civilians in Kala Balge in Borno. Media […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The second prosecution witness and an official of the Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) Mr. Amazi Nwachukwu standing in the Senate President Bukola Saraki false assets declaration trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) has given details on how funds were transfered into various account of the accused. Nwachukwu who […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UK Prime Minister Mrs. Theresa May has declared Britain “cannot possibly” remain within the European single market, as staying in it would mean “not leaving the EU at all”. Still, she promised to push for the “greatest possible” access to the single market due to Brexit. Mrs. Theresa in a […]
By Ignatius Okpara OWERRI, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER). – The Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit Zone ‘C’ Owerri, Imo state, South- East Nigeria, has hinted that its anti-smuggling unit seized a total of three hundred and seven (307) contraband valued over four billion in 2016. A statement issued by its Public Relations Officer PRO, Onuigbo […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – “Happy New Year, my brother” “What do you mean happy new year, more than two weeks into the New Year. Have I not been in touch with you since January 1?” “But for you the New Year has just started. Your January 1 was not on January 1” “Looks like […]
By Seun Adebosin BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Further assurance has been given that the supply logjam which often impedes stable availability of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, (LPG), otherwise called cooking gas, may soon be over. The certainty followed the signal from the West Africa Gas Ltd (WAGL), a Joint Venture Company of Nigerian National Petroleum […]
LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Government has allayed fears of residents on suspected explosive substance which was allegedly dropped in a manhole in one of the Streets in Agege area of the State, saying that the development was nothing to worry about. The State’s Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni, who briefed […]
LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Hope of price slash of the Liquefied Petroleum Gas, (cooking gas) looms as the stranded vessel on the water with the product has finally delivered its consignment in Lagos. The Punch reported that the General Manager External Relations, NLNG, Kudo Eresia-Eke, said in an emailed statement, “NLNG’s LPG vessel successfully […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Vice President and Chieftain for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Atiku Abubakar has also condemned the suicide bomb attack on a mosque at the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID), describing it at as a dangerous development. Turakin Adamawa noted that, following the February 2014 attack on […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Four-time champion Roger Federer has reached the Australian Open second round with a four-set victory over Austria’s Jurgen Melzer in Melbourne. The 35-year-old, who is appearing in his first competitive match in six months after knee injury, won 7-5 3-6 6-2 6-2. Federer, who hit 19 aces in his two-hour […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the terrorist attack Monday morning at a mosque in the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID). The President expressed sympathy and heartfelt condolences to the UNIMAID Community, families of the victims and the government and people of Borno State. President Buhari believed that this appalling attack on […]
By Iganatius Okpara ENUGU, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXANIMER) – The Enugu state chapter of the ruling All progress Congress,( APC) has dismissed reports in some section of the media that the party is indisposed to receiving the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu into its fold should he indicate interest to do so, just as Ex- senate […]
MAIDUGURI, BORNO, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Disaster rages Monday in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital as another teenage female suicide bomber was killed in second attack. The State Police Command Spokesman Mr. Victor Isuku confirmed that the 12-year old suicide bomber with Improvised Explosive Device (IED) which was strapped to her body was sighted and […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As UK Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to deliver Brexit speech Tuesday, the pound has hit its lowest level for more than three months. Sterling fell below the $1.20 level before recovering slightly on Monday. Britain is set to quit the EU single market as part of her Brexit plans. […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The passage of the Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP) preparatory to working on the 2017 budget, amendment of the Company and Allied Matters Act (CAMA) and the Universal Basic Education Act as well as the continuation of the Ministerial Briefing on the […]
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria— Witnesses say two bombs have exploded at Nigeria’s northeastern University of Maiduguri, killing five people, including a professor. One student said the first blast ripped through the mosque where professors were saying dawn prayers and many are feared among the victims. A university worker said the second bomb went off at an entrance […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A civil rights movement under the aegis of Coalition for Good Governance and Change Initiative (CGGCI), on Sunday expressed pessimism that the continued preoccupation of office by the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, was denting Nigeria’s image in the international community. The organisation wondered why President […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bayelsa State Governor, Henry Seriake Dickson, has called on the Federal Government to fast-track the ongoing peace process in the Niger Delta, with a view to building consensus on the economic, political and security issues to achieve lasting peace in the region. Governor Dickson, who made the call at the […]
