(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has justified heavy deployment of security operatives for the coming Saturday Ekiti Governorship election, saying the action is necessary so as to forestall breakdown of law and order. Oshiomhole made the disclosure Monday in Abuja while reacting to the […]
(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 Speaker of Osun House of Assembly, Hon. Najeem Salaam has declared his intention to contest for September 22, 2018 Governorship election of the state. Salaam made the declaration Thursday at the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) secretariat in Osogbo the State capital. The State’s first Lawmaker declared that he was capable […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Bayelsa State Government has revealed that, the ongoing reforms in the public service has continued to yield positive results, as it is currently saving about 684 million Naira annually from the review of the grade levels of workers at the Local Government level alone. Making the revelation at a joint media […]
Photo: Former Governor of Ondo state, Olusegun Mimiko (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Gov. Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State on Thursday formally retraced his steps back into the Labour Party (LP) at a rally held in Ondo town, headquarters of Ondo West Local Government area of the state The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mimiko […]
Photo: Lagos Lawyer, Femi Falana (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – National Leader of the APC, Chief Bola Tinubu, has called on Mr Femi Falana (SAN) and veteran journalist, Mr Kunle Ajibade, to join hands with the party to move Nigeria forward. In a birthday message to the duo, Tinubu described Falana and Ajibade as icons in their […]
From Ignatius Okpara ENUGU NIGERIA, (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Following last Saturday’s violence allegedly instigated by the Foreign Affair’s Minister, Geopherey Onyama, during Enugu State’s congress of the ruling All progressive Congress APC, the Appeal panel for the exercise has commenced sitting. However, due to fear of unknown, members of the panel have been opertating in a […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Some prominent members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), who defected from the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the wake of the 2015 general election, have declared that the victory of the party in the 2019 general elections is tied to addressing their grievances. Leader of the group, Alhaji […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The failed attempt on April 28, to recall Kogi West Senator, Dino Melaye in which the ‘Recallists’ scored a miserable 5.3 percent, is not my focus. My mind is on matters arising which are likely to feature in the 2019 general elections. In the “Statement of Results of Verification for Recall” signed […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The political differences between a former Governor of Ogun State, Chief Olusegun Osoba and the incumbent, Senator Ibikunle Amosun appears to have finally climaxed as both leaders met on Sunday in Lagos. Reports say the two party’s Leaders discussed at their meeting the outcome of last Saturday ward congresses of the ruling […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Israeli Military claims it has disabled a major tunnel dug by militants which reached into Israel from the Gaza Strip. Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said the channel was the longest and deepest tunnel of its kind Israel had discovered. A Military spokesman Lt Col Jonathan Conricus said the tunnel had been […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Owerri (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – After operating for seven years without substantive democratically elected Chairmen, the Imo State government has at last, announced July 14, 2018 as the date for council polls in the state. Chairman of the state Independent Electoral Commission, ISIEC, Mr. Ethelbert Ibebuchi, who disclosed this on Thursday in Owerri, […]
Photo: Ms Angela Alsobrooks and Harrison Harrison C. Nwozo Jr. …And What Her Election Means to African Diaspora By Harrison C. Nwozo Jr. (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At an appearance Ms. Alsobrooks made on February 25, 2018 with United Brothers Organization (An African Diaspora Group of African Business Owners in PG County), at their meeting in […]
By Jerome- Mario Utomi (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Scandal in the words of Paul Glenn is a needless word or deed which does harm to those who hear or observe them, it is the word or deed that occasions sin in another; it is a bad example. Very instructive also is the fact that; to the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The embattled Kogi state Senator Dino Melaye, has approached the Supreme Court, urging it to declare the petitions submitted by his West Senatorial district to the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC seeking his recall as illegal. Melaye in an appeal filed against the March 16, 2018 judgment of the Abuja Division of […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Disturbed by the rumour making the rounds in some quarters of Enugu, state, South -East Nigeria, over alleged extortion of money by Staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC before registering voters in the state, leadership of the electoral body in the state says it has put […]
By Jerome-mario Utomi (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – It is a deep-seated teaching within the religious circle that for a man to exist, comprehends, exercise and act; he must depend on a supernatural gift called grace. Such ‘grace’ for political decisiveness seems to have been recently released upon our nation’s Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbanjo as he […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Bayelsa State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Daniel Iworiso-Markson has charged members of the state chapter of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) to join the campaign against child molestation. As a reputable organization, the NIPR he said can attract more attention to the growing cases of the menace, especially […]
KOGI, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The recall process of the Kogi State Senator, Dino Melaye is now a reality as the State’s Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has announced between end of April and early May 2018, as the dates to start and conclude the exercise. Kogi INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner REC, Prof. James Apam, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has described the abduction of the dapchi schoolgirls as an indictment on the federal government and their release as “drama scripted by the government and its agents to swindle Nigerians.” The governor, however, congratulated parents of the abducted Dapchi Girls that were released Wednesday and sympathized […]
