By Godwin Adindu THERE is a yellow rainbow across the skyline of Abia State, a syndrome pervading the state. The colour, yellow, is ubiquitous in all nooks and crannies and has transformed into a mental construct. There is yellow everywhere. Governor Theodore Orji has painted Abia yellow with his Youth Empowerment Programme. For a visitor […]
By Prof. R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria Terrorism simply refers to any act of violence, intimidation, terror campaign from any source, bombing and all similar insurgencies. To that effect we can assert that Nigeria has got her plates very full of any class of violence right now in the society. Boko Haram has […]
Ignatius Okpara, Umuahia Governor Theodore Ahamefula Orji, of Abia state, on Monday tongue lashed the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) governorship aspirant in the state, Chief Chikwe Udensi, over his recent media comments that civil servants in the state were presently being owed five months backlog salary arrears. Orji, who is also the chairman of […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Abakaliki Police in Ebonyi State have arrested a 20-year-old suspect identified as Chukwuma, who allegedly majors in killing of women as well as having intercourse with them. African Examiner gathered that the suspect recently allegedly killed three women along farm pathways in the state and had sex with them. The State Police […]
…As Jonathan Meets With Governors, Health Commissioners On the virus The United States Of America (USA) has agreed to make available sample doses of her ZMAP experimental drug to Liberia to treat its doctors who have been infected with deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). Liberian President, Mrs Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, announced on her official website […]
The death has occurred of the United States (US) comedy icon, Robin Williams. Wiliams died at the age of 63 in his San Francisco Bay Area home late Monday. The death confirmation was made in his sheriff’s office where the preliminary investigation linked it to suicide due to asphyxia. The late stage and screen comedy […]
Ekiti State Governor-Elect, Mr Ayo Fayose, has said he will not divert statutory allocations meant for local governments in the state to any local council development area (LCDA). A press statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Idowu Adelusi, in Ado-Ekiti yesterday, quoted Fayose as saying this while featuring on a phone-in programme on the […]
Agabus Pwanagba, Jos A youth group within the Plateau’s chapter of the All Progressive Congress (APC) – Integrity Group has backed the party’s National Secretariat on the annulment of the election which produced Hon. Latep Dabang as the state’s Chairman and authenticated Hon. Amos Gombi as the new head. The group in a press […]
The results of May/June 2014 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) conducted by the West Africa Examination Council, (WAEC) have been released with mass failure in two compulsory subjects – English Language and Mathematics. The Head, WAEC National Office, Yaba Lagos, Mr. Charles Eguridu while annoucing on Monday the latest result revealed that a […]
The Acting Inspector General of Police, (IGP) Suleiman Abba has just decorated three newly promoted Commissioners of Police, with a call that they should live up to the demands of the insignia of their new status. The new CPs included Aminchi Samaila Baraya, Alkali Baba Usman and Dan Bature. At a very brief ceremony on […]
Delta state Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has regretted the sudden transition on Saturday, August 9, of an online Publisher and a member of the state’s Executive Council, Mr. Sunny Ofili. Late Ofili who died late Saturday in a ghastly auto crash along Benin-Asaba Expressway, was until his demise the Special Adviser to the Governor on […]
Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola says 5 out of the 10 Nigerians infected with the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) are responding to treatment at the Isolation Unit, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria. The governor disclosed this at a meeting with traditional rulers and religious leaders on Monday at the State House, Ikeja, Lagos over the Ebola […]
Members of the National Conference 2014 resumed today after over three weeks of recess, with the copy of the drafted constitution distributed among the delegates as well as request for more days for members to study the proposed constitution. The secretariat of the CONFAB has in a statement penultimate last week, by its Assistant Secretary, […]
Another Nigerian nurse has tested positive to the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), the Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu says on Monday. He says the husband of the married nurse has been placed on surveillance, disclosing that 177 primary and secondary contacts had been placed on surveillance to see if they would show traces […]
From Agabus Pwanagba, Jos Following a petition by the Plateau Patriotic Front (PPF), indications have emerged that the State’s House of Assembly might have foreclosed its earlier plans to probe the State Government over allegations of financial misappropriation. It would be recalled that PPF had filed the petition to the leadership of the legislative House […]
Kwara State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed has described the re-election of the Governor of State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola as an affirmation of the supremacy of the wish of the people and reward for good governance and purposeful leadership. Governor Ahmed said this in a congratulatory message to Governor Aregbesola, adding that the Osun […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Abakaliki Ebonyi state Command of the Department of State Services (DSS), has paraded six suspected kidnappers alleged to be members of a notorious gang that have been terrorizing the state and its environs. The hoodlums were suspected to be responsible for the killing of Mr. Ihebunandu Okorie, the former Coordinator, Okposi Development […]
A Nigerian man who was quarantined after he showed Ebola-like symptoms while travelling to Hong Kong has tested negative for the deadly virus. The southern Chinese city government said in a statement late on Sunday that the man, 32, had “tested negative for Ebola virus upon preliminary laboratory testing”. “In the past one month… he […]
Less than a week to its controversial suspended nationwide industrial action, the Lagos State Chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has taken exception in the way Federal Government is fighting further spread of the raging and deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the country. Consequently, the association (Lagos wing) in which not less than 30 […]
Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun has congratulated Ogbeni Rauf Aregbsola, the All Progressive Congress, (APC) and the people of Osun State on the overwhelming victory of the governor at the gubernatorial election in the State. Amosun, who said the re-election of the Aregbesola is divine, also commended the good people of Osun State for […]
