By Ganiyu Nasirudeen (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The ruling All Progressives Congress APC has reversed the suspension slammed on Senator Shehu Sani (Kaduna central) by his ward. The announcement to this effect was contained in a statement issued Sunday in Abuja by the party’s Acting National Publicity Secretary Mr. Yekini Nabena. Nabena stated: “The National […]
By Tajudeen Balogun, Head, African Examiner, Nigeria Bureau BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – After a relatively long break from the Nigerian political scene, the impunity in which a cross section of the country’s political class is reputed, unfortunately came to play early this week. It was demonstrated by reckless eight Benue State, North central Nigeria, […]
…Declares N4.4BN Balance For July (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bayelsa State Government has decried illegal deduction of revenues from the Excess Crude Account without by the federal government. The state government described the deductions as unconstitutional saying monies domiciled in the ECA are proceeds from the 13% derivation meant for oil producing states. Deputy Governor, Rear […]
Photo: Nigeria’s President Muhammad Buhari (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) Governors’ Forum, Gov. Rochas Okorocha of Imo, has assured that no governor will defect from the party anymore. The governor gave the assurance at the end of a closed door meeting between President Muhammadu Buhari and APC governors at the […]
Photo: APC Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – When we wrote much earlier that the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nigeria’s ruling party was a coalition of strange bedfellows and a one-chance special purpose vehicle to get rid of President Goodluck Jonathan by all and any means possible, we were accused of sour grapes. When we […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Owerri (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At last, the Imo State House of Assembly has impeached the embattled deputy governor of the state, Prince Eze Madumere. The latter who has been at loggerhead with the state governor, Rochas Okorocha over his governorship ambition was impeached Monday evening at exactly 4.52pm, by 9 out of […]
From Ignatius Okpara (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former Governor of Imo State, Chief Ikedi Ohakim has defected from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to the All progressive Grand Alliance APGA to contest the gubernatorial seat. AFRICAN EXAMINER recalled that Ohakim, who became Governor under the platform of Progressive People’s Alliance, PPA, but later decamped to […]
Photo: Former Ogun State Deputy Governor Senator Adegbenga Kaka (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Ogun State Deputy Governor, Senator Adegbenga Kaka, has declared his intention to join the governorship race. Senator Kaka who served as Deputy to former Governor Olusegun Osoba while declaring his intention Monday at the State’s secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Senior of Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mr. Biriyai Dambo has commended Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson for the political maturity that is existing in the state. Dambo noted that with few weeks to the start of political activities, beginning with party primaries, Bayelsa is experiencing relative peace and civility, […]
By Sufuyan Ojeifo (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The coming together of political forces of the oppositional hue in the build-up to the 2015 general election portended a grave danger for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). In any case, the behemoth, which the PDP typified at the time, had imprudently and lightly treated the ill-omened development and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Embattled Speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly, Hon. Terkimbi Ikyange, who was purportedly removed at a sitting of the house on Tuesday for alleged high-handedness, has called on the Police authorities in Abuja to move into the Assembly to restore law, order and integrity of the house. He said in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government must redouble its effort to ensure the national integration of Nigerians, in order to curb some of the challenges faced by the country, the Bayelsa State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Daniel Iworiso-Markson has said. He spoke in Yenagoa while delivering a keynote address at the 8th Executive Committee […]
By Sufuyan Ojeifo (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari, who went into the 2015 presidential election on the crest of a countrywide approbation as a man of integrity, could not have come better recommended by Nigerians for the task of clearing the nation’s Augean stables. On the force of his antecedents and credentials, he was […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Bayelsa State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Daniel Iworiso-Markson has said that education remains one of the biggest investment of the restoration government of Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson. He said in the last six years the government has deliberately paid attention to the education sector by building and equipping public schools […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Dr. Alex Otti, a former governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance ( APGA ) in the 2015 general elections in Abia on Friday declared his interest to run again in 2019. Otti, a former banker and renowned financial expert, told a mammoth crowd of his supporters at the Ngwa High […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has threatened to boycott the forthcoming 2019 general elections if the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC and security agencies fail to be neutral during the polls. PDP National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus made the threat Thursday in Abuja, when a combined delegation of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Suleiman Wambai, North-Central National Vice Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) said Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State is not leaving the party. Wambai told newsmen on Wednesday in Lafia that the governor has not officially written to the party about his intention to leave He said that despite the lack of […]
By Abdulahi Ibrahim (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria is a country witnessing many developments. In an era of many controversies, a positive aspect still appears in an obscure corner. Disposal of public assets can conform to due process and extant laws. An agency is walking the talk. As civil society activists, we pry over many agencies […]
By Sufuyan Ojeifo (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The exculpation of senate president, Dr. Bukola Saraki, last Friday, by the Supreme Court in the false asset declaration suit filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) exemplifies the finality of judicial intercessions in the matter. As lawyers would say, the matter is now res […]
By Jerome-Mario Utomi (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Demystifying the time-honored saying that; ‘the powerful never lose opportunities-they remain available to them, that the powerless on the other hand, never experience opportunity – it is always arriving at a later time, remains a remarkable political lesson Nigerians gave to the world in 2015. The lesson was predicated […]
