(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The ruling, All Progressive Congress (APC) Monday threatened it would drag leaders and members of the Reformed All Progressives Congress (R-APC) to court over alleged impersonation. National Legal Adviser of the party, Mr. Babatunde Ogala, made this known in a statement issued in Abuja while reacting to the formation of the group, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has confirmed that the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun applied for an exemption certificate. NYSC Director of Press Mrs. Adeyemi Adenike, said in a statement issued in Abuja Monday, that that the scheme would however, investigate the origin of the allegedly forged exemption certificate purportedly […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), Rev. Tor Uja has disclosed that 100 Christian pilgrims absconded during the 2017 pilgrimage to Israel. Uja, made this known on Monday in Abuja while receiving security report of the 2017 pilgrimage. The NCPC boss added that among those abscoded are a […]
…To Deliver Major Lecture On Restructuring In Oau, Ile-ife (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Governor of Bayelsa State, the Honourable Henry Seriake Dickson, has taken the crusade for the restructuring of the country to the academic community. The Bayelsa State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Daniel Iworiso-Markson, said in a statement on Sunday that the Bayelsa State […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mr Boboye Oyeyemi, Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), says the corps will recruit additional 4,650 officers and procure new logistics vehicles to improve road safety management in the country. Oyeyemi disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Sunday. According to him, the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Miss Adenike Khadijat Oluboyo, daughter of the immediate past Deputy Governor of Ondo State, Alhaji Lasisi Olugbenga Oluboyo, was on Sunday found dead at her boyfriend’s house in Akure. Oluboyo, who was a final year student of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, was found dead in her boyfriend’s house, Adeyemi Alao, popularly […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian government has said the proposed national airline for the country would be unveiled before the end of the year. The Minister of State for Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika gave the assurance while receiving the Outline Business Case Certificate of Compliance for the establishment of the airline from Mr Chidi Izuwah, […]
…Says Party Reminiscence Of His Failed Government (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Bayelsa Progress Front (BPF) has criticized a former Governor of the State, Chief Timipre Sylva, for what it described as an absurd display of wealth during a birthday organized by him and his friends. The Secretary General of the BPF, Comrade James Ebipade said […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Croatia ended Russia’s unlikely 2018 FIFA World Cup dream when they won 4-3 on penalty kicks to eliminate the gallant hosts, after a dramatic quarter-final which ended 2-2 in extra time. In Sochi city’s Fisht Olympic Stadium on Saturday, Ivan Rakitic scored the winning penalty kick to send Croatia into a semi-final […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER)- Ethiopia needs 7.5 billion dollars to finish infrastructure projects such as a massive dam and roads that the government hopes will drive industrialisation, the new prime minister said on Friday. Speaking to parliament before its vote on the 2018/19 budget, Abiy Ahmed said the government needed to be more efficient and prudent in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Alassane Ouattara of Cote d’Ivoire’s plans to name a new government on July 9, after dissolving its predecessor because of a row within his ruling coalition, three government sources told Reuters on Friday. Two sources close to the president and one in Ouattara’s RDR party also said discussions between the RDR […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Thirty people died when a bus skidded off the road into a ditch in Cameroon’s centre region, authorities said on Friday. “We understand the driver had fallen asleep,’’ regional governor Naseri Paul Bea told the state broadcaster CRTV. Two children under the age of two “miraculously’’ survived the crash, he added. The […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Libya’s Tripoli-based National Oil Corporation (NOC) is asking for U.N. sanctions against 48 individuals and others they accuse of trying to sell oil illicitly in a struggle over the country’s oil wealth. In a letter circulated to foreign embassies and the United Nations, and seen by the Media, NOC Chairman, Mustafa Sanalla, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Adams Oshiomhole, the newly elected All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairman, has said that the APC leadership will rather ignore members of the Reformed-APC than be bothered by their action. He stated this in Abuja when Chairmen of the defunct Congress for Progressives Congress (CPC) paid him a visit at the party`s […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) Founder and Chairman of United Bank for Africa (UBA), Tony O. Elumelu has pledged N500 million to create an entrepreneurship programme exclusive to indigenes of the state. He made the commitment after presenting 50 beneficiaries of the TEF Entrepreneurship Programme to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa. He said “Your Excellency, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Supreme Court on Friday discharged the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, from further trial on allegation of non-assets declaration brought against him by the Federal Government. Delivering the lead judgment, Justice Centus Nweze, held that the Dec.12, 2017 decision of the Court of Appeal against Saraki was based on hearsay. The judge […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The FCT Police Command has arrested and dismissed a policeman who allegedly killed an NYSC member, Angela Igwetu, in Abuja. Igwetu, who was allegedly shot in the early hours of Wednesday around Ceddi Plaza by a police officer, was rushed to the Garki Hospital where she died. The Commissioner of Police, Mr […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has signed an executive order to freeze assets of individuals with corruption cases. Executive Order No. 6 of 2018 “on the Preservation of Assets connected with serious corruption and other relevant offences” was signed at a short ceremony in the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He said […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bayelsa State Governor, Henry Seriake Dickson has commiserate with the people and Government of Yobe State over the death of the former Finance Minister and Elder Statesman, Mallam Adamu Ciroma who died in Abuja at the age of 84. The Governor in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Francis Ottah […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP),Uche Secondus, on Thursday urged residents of the state to shun violence during the July 14 governorship election. Secondus made the plea in Ado-Ekiti at a mega rally of the party held in Ado-Ekiti. The chairman described the PDP as the party to beat in […]
