BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Donald Trump has signed a new executive order placing a 90-day ban on people from six mainly Muslim nations. Iraq which was among the first seven affected Muslim countries has been removed from the list. Immigrants from Iraq with valid visas will now be allowed to enter the US. The […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Acting President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, will inaugurate the newly confirmed Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Walter Onnoghen Tuesday, March 7, 2017. The 17th CJN is expected to be sworn-in at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja by 9am. It would be recalled that upon re-sending […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has warned Nigerians who have no compelling or urgent reason to travel to the US to suspend their travel plans until the country’s new administration’s policy on immigration is clear. Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa handed down the […]
ADAMAWA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Adamawa State High Court sitting in Yola has slamed five years imprisonment on a former Governor of the State, Bar. James Bala Ngilari, over financial misappropriation. Ngillari who assumed office after the controversial impeachment of his predecessor, Muritala Nyako was culpable of five counts of conspiracy, including the award […]
The book, Atiku – The Story of Atiku Abubakar, has the author’s name as Ojo Adinoyi. Unless, of course, you were familiar with the author or, and, knew that he was a special aide to the former Nigerian vice-president, you would have thought that it is not the same person as Onukaba Adinoyi-Ojo. But then, […]
AKURE, (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Veteran journalist and a former Managing Director of the Daily Times Nigeria Plc, Dr Onukaba Adinoyi Ojo is dead. Onukaba, 57, according to his relation Mr. Yusuf Itopa who confirmed Monday in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, died at about 6pm Sunday at a village near Akure, the Ondo State capital. The […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A civil rights activist, Tonye Bob-Manuel, on Sunday took to the cleaners, ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, for empowering his godson, George Turnah, rather unduly. Turnah (33), now under investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, was conferred with the prestigious national honour of Member of Order of the Niger (MON) by Jonathan. […]
By Ignatius Okpara, ENUGU (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu state chapter of the crisis- ridden opposition peoples Democratic party (PDP) weekend suffered yet another major set back, as one of its chieftain and ex-military Governor,(MILAD) of Gombe state, Group Captain Joe Orji (Rtd) defected to the ruling All progressive congress APC with scores of his […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Notwithstanding the clandestine move by those who are opposed to the ongoing sanitization of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, the Group Managing Director, Dr Maikanti Baru, has been enjoyed to sustain it for the benefit of the Nigerian people. Since his assumption of office, Baru has undertaken far reaching measures designed […]
EKITI, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As the former President Olusegun Obasanjo clocked 80 Saturday, Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has advised him to take a cue from the lifestyle of ex-Military Head of State, Gen Abdul Salami Abubakar, for him to assume full status of a stateman. Fayose gave the advice in a statement issued […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The continued prosecution of Emeka Mba, erstwhile Director General of the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC,by the Federal Government through the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, presents several agonizing puzzles. Recently, the Minister of Information, National Orientation and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed admitted that government was grateful for the N34 billion realised […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) standing Committee on Reconciliation and Governor of Bayelsa State, Honourable Henry Seriake Dickson has appealed to party leaders to make sacrifices to revive the party. The governor said his committee has started embarking on a wide consultation with party leaders/ critical stakeholders across board […]
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu (African Examiner) – The Enugu state Ministry of Health says it is targeting about 1.1 million children and pregnant women in the ongoing maternal, new born and child health week in all the house holds in the state. It expressed appreciation to the United Nation children Education fund, UNICEF and other […]
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu (African Examiner) – Less than one week after 18 persons lost their lives in a ghastly auto crash along the Owerri-Onitsha expressway,in Imo State, five persons have been roasted beyond recognition in a fatal motor accident that occured along the Enugu/Markurdi express way. According to the Enugu state police public Relations […]
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Port Harcourt (African Examiner) – A Chief Magistrate Court presided over by Sokari Andrew-Jaja in Port Harcourt, the River state capital, South- South Nigeria, Friday discharged and acquitted 35 members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB who were arrested while participating a solidarity rally for the United states (US) President, Donald Trump on January […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – These are odds moments for Dr. Shettima Bukar, acting Chairman of the Federal Character Commission (FCC). The FCC boss who dual as the federal commissioner representing Borno state is being accused of misappropriating funds meant for the agency. The money in question was the N800million capital votes in the 2016 budget of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The history of governorship politics in Edo state, at various intersections since 1999, is very fresh in my mind. But of great interest to me is the April 14, 2007 election that pitted Senator Oserhiemen Aigberaodion Osunbor of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against Comrade Adams Aliu Oshiomhole of the then Action Congress […]
By Prof R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria Officially former Nigeria President Olusegun Obasanjo celebrates his birthday 5th March and annually. This Sunday March 5, 2017 he will officially turn 80. I am a fan of Obasanjo as a character rather than a fan of Obasanjo as a mortal person. We celebrate his character, […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has approved the redeployment of two Federal Permanent Secretaries. In a media statement issued Friday by Director of Communications Mr. Haruna R. Imrana on behalf of Head of the Civil Service of the Federation Mrs. Winifred Oyo-Ita, Dr. Shehu Ahmed was moved from the Federal […]
UYO, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Acting President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has advocated for huge investment geared towards steering innovation and motivating young entrepreneurship in Nigeria. Osinbajo made the call Thursday night in Uyo the Akwa Ibom State capital, during a town hall meeting in continuation of his dialogue with the stakeholders in the Niger […]
