By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ex-Nigeria’s vice President, Dr. Alex Ekwueme has identified indiscipline, lack of internal democracy, imposition of candidates, among others, as the key factors that led to the present set back being suffered by the opposition People’s Democratic Party, PDP. He regretted that some elements who do not know how the […]
KATSINA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Speaker of the Katsina State House of Assembly, Alhaji Aliyu Muduru, has been impeached. Also sacked was the House Chief Whip, Alhaji Bishir Mamman Dutsin-ma. The ex-Speaker was impeached Wednesday by his colleagues during plenary session of the House. House Majority Leader, Alhaji Hanbali Faruk, of Katsina Constituency, moved […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – After the resignation of his National Security Adviser, Michael Flynn and demand by prominent Republicans, US President Donald Trump has lashed out at the country’s intelligence community and media after the latest reports of contacts between members of his team and Russia. Consequently, Trump has accused the National Security Agency (NSA) […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Senate President Bukola Saraki, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara and other principal officers of the National Assembly (NASS) have traveled to United Kingdom (UK) to visit President Muhammadu Buhari. Others Federal Lawmakers included: Senate Leader, Ahmed Lawan; Deputy Speaker, Yusuf Lasun and House Leader, Femi Gbajabiamila. The NASS leaders left […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Distributors of the Dangote foods companies, including Dangote Flour, Sugar and Salt smiled home last night as the management of the Companies doled out over N2 billion as rewards for their loyalty to the companies over the past one year. At a colourful Gala night which the distributors were hosted to last […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bayelsa State governor, Henry Seriake Dickson on in Yenagoa on Tuesday celebrated the first year of his reelection and five years in office as the governor, with a pledge to lift embargo on employment into the civil service and broaden the scope of governance by rewarding those who worked for him. He also stated […]
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The South East Zonal chapter of the ruling All progressive Congresses APC, says it is battled ready to win all the forth-coming elections in the zone based on the solid political structures it has put in place in the five states of the region. It posited that going […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Kim Jong-nam, has reportedly been killed with poison in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur. According Malaysian police, a North Korean man who they identified as “Kim Chol”, instead of Kim Jong-nam, was waiting at the airport for a flight to Macau Monday but […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who is in The Gambia, has said he is “very pleased” the West African state intends to rejoin the Commonwealth. His visit, the first to The Gambia by a British foreign secretary, comes weeks after long-time ruler Yahya Jammeh went into exile after losing elections. Mr Jammeh took […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – U.S. national security adviser Michael Flynn has resigned following widespread reports he had misled Trump administration officials, including Vice President Mike Pence, about his contacts with Russia. In his resignation letter, Flynn, a retired Army general, acknowledged late Monday he had “inadvertently briefed” Pence and others with “incomplete information” regarding his phone […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari Monday afternoon from the Abuja House in London, United Kinddom UK, spoke to his United States US counterpart President Donald Trump on telephone. The conversation which was at the request of the American President was cordial. President Buhari’s SA on Media and Publicity, Mr. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Acting President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has called on the politicians to shun bitterness and be accommodating to oppositions. Osinbajo made the call Monday night in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital at the Banquet dinner organized in his honour by the State Government. Most of the times, bitter politics Prof Osinbajo said was […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal GovernmeNT OF Nigeria has inaugurated a 14-man committee chaired by Dr. Wale Babalakin (SAN) to end incessant and protracted strikes in Nigerian tertiary institutions, with a declaration that it does not see the unions as an enemy. The committee is expected to re-negotiate the 2009 agreement between government, Academic Staff Union of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Seriake Dickson on Monday said, the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the Bayelsa State Government and the Bank of Industry was a part of an efforts to raise the N10 billion entrepreneurship development fund to create wealth for small and medium scale entrepreneurs in the state. Dickson, who made the disclosure […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) has appointed Mr. Thusang Mahlangu as its new African CEO. Mahlangu succeeded Ms. Delphine Traoré Maïdou who remains on AGCS Africa Board, a position which extends her role for the underwriting group, such as supporting Allianz’s strategy across the African continent. The appointment which […]
By Ayo Balogun BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari who is presently on vacation in the United kingdom (UK) is expected to speak today (Monday) with his United States (US) counterpart, Mr. Donald Trump. Indication to this emerged from the President’s SA on New Media Bashir Ahmad via his twitter handle: @BashirAhmaad. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Dangote Rice, a subsidiary of Dangote Group is set to launch in Sokoto, Sokoto state it’s multi-million naira 25, 000 hectares of rice Outgrower scheme with a prospect of hundreds of thousand of employment opportunities for the rural communities inhabitants. President of the Group, Aliko Dangote disclosed at the weekend that the […]
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Umuahia (African Examiner) – The popular Club 25 road Abayi, in the commercial city of Aba, in Osisioma council Area of Abia State, South- East Nigeria and environ, was at the weekend thrown into anxiety and tension, as a man identified as Mr. Peter Ibekwe, was found dead inside his hotel room […]
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu (African Examiner) – The Enugu state Police Command has discovered and successfully evacuated an unexploded ordinance(UXO) being part of the civil war left overs in a farm land. It said the object was evacuated by operatives of the Command’s Explosive Ordinance Department (EOD) “on 7/2/17 at a farmland at Eke in Udi local […]
By Niyi Balogun LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The recent Federal Government’s Whistle-blower policy has started yielding fruit, as sum of US$151 million and 8 billion Naira looted funds have been recovered. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who said this in a statement issued in Lagos Sunday, however clarify that the bogus […]
