Kwara State Government is to establish and Independent Power Project (IPP) next year in the North Senatorial District of the State. The State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed said this on Monday at the flag-off of 32.8km Ilesha-Baruba-Gwanara Road project in Baruten local government area of the State. Governor Ahmed said the power plant expected to […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – The Federal Government has slashed the 2015 capital projects proposed expenditure by N581 billion. This is just as the 2015 budget estimates by the federal government was reduced further by N304 billion. The reason for this according to President Goodluck Jonathan is the continuous fall in international oil price, hence the […]
Thierry Henry has announced his retirement from football and willingness to join Sky Sports as a football expert. The global sporting icon will work across Sky Sports’ unrivalled schedule of live international, European and domestic football, joining a line-up of football experts that includes Gary Neville, Jamie Carragher, Jamie Redknapp and Graeme Souness. Henry lifted […]
Ganiyu Ganiyu Nasirudeen, Abuja – House of Representatives Speaker, Aminu Tambuwal’s battle with his former political party – the PDP, recorded another victory Monday, as a Federal High Court in FCT, Abuja refused an application, restraining him from parading himself as the Speaker. The suit which was filed by a member of the House of […]
The crisis between the Vice Chancellor of the Lagos State University (LASU), Prof. John Obafunwa and the lecturers of the institution has snowballed as the VC has wittingly split the Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) of the ailing institution into two factions. One of the faction loyal to Obafunwa has sacked the executive council […]
The National leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu has blasted the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for insulting its Presidential candidate, Major General Muhammed Buhari (Rtd). The PDP had said Buhari was a stooge of the Tinubu-led APC and has been made to bend his principles as he could not appoint his own […]
A 29-year old driver, Kayode Adebayo has been sentenced to one year in prison for driving against traffic in Lagos. The driver who appeared before the presiding Magistrate Jadesola Adeyemi at the Special Offences Court at Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos pleaded guilty to the five count charges which include driving against traffic, dangerous driving, breach of […]
Ignatius Okpara, Enugu – The youth wing of the apex Igbo socio-cultural body, Ohaneze Ndigbo, has threatened a show down with the Elders Council of the organisation over its plan to enthrone a new leadership in January 2014. African Examiner reports that the Ohaneze Elders Council led by former Minister of Aviation, chief Mbazulike Amaechi, […]
An Abia High Court sitting in Ohafia, has adjourned the N5 billion libel suit instituted by Engr. Chinedu Orji against Ebere Wabara and the Sun Publishing Limited to 26th January, 2015 for ruling on applications before it. Three applications were argued following applications filed by the counsels to the defendants asking the court to strike […]
By Ayo Balogun, Lagos – Nigerians have been called upon to prevail on the National Assembly (NASS), for a speedy passage of the Petroleum Industry (PIB) Bill, so as to create enabling working environment in the country’s oil and gas sector. The South West Chairman of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers […]
From Agabus Pwanagba, Jos – Barely a week after his emergence as the Plateau PDP gubernatorial flag bearer, Senator Gyang Pwajok has picked Mr. Yilji Gomwalk as his running mate for the 2015 elections. Until his nomination, Gomwalk who is the son of the late visionary leader of the old Benue-Plateau State, Joseph Deshi Gomwalk, […]
”It is a monumental breakthrough”- Ekweremadu Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – The Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, on Monday finally adopted and signed into law the Supplementary Act on the Enhancement of the Powers of the ECOWAS Parliament. The highest decision-making body of the ECOWAS, […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – As predicted on Sunday by the African Examiner Online news on Sunday that the Choice of the running mate to the All Progressive Party Presidential candidate, General Mohammadu Buhari has been narrowed to the South West, the Party has endorsed Professor Yemi Osibajo for the post. Osibajo who was a former […]
Ignatius Okpara, Enugu – The local government chairman of Igbo-Eze North council area of Enugu state, Mr. Bonaventure Onuh, who was served impeachment notice last month over alleged 1.75 billion budget fraud has been impeached. African Examiner reports that Onuh was served impeachment notice by 16 of the 20 councilors in the council Area over […]
By Akintokunbo A Adejumo – Shortly after the coup of December 1983 in Nigeria, in which the seemingly no-nonsense duo of General Muhammadu Buhari and General Babatunde Idiagbon took over by force the government of Nigeria from the corrupt and inept Shehu Shagari-led civilian regime, I was invited by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to their Winnipeg, […]
By Adeseye Adebiyi, Lagos – The draw for group of 16 in the 2014/2015 UEFA Champions League has held, with the Athletico Madrid, Real Madrid, Monaco, Bayern Munich, Barcelona, Chelsea, FC Porto and Borussia Dortmund, coming under group of winners. The runners up tally comprise Juventus, Basel, Bayer Leverkusen, Arsenal, Manchester city, Paris saint german, […]
By Niyi Adeyi, Lagos – The Nigerian oil and gas workers acting on the directives of their union bodies – the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association (PENGASSAN) and Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) have commenced a nationwide strike today to press for turn around maintenance (TAM) of the operational facilities […]
Ignatius Okpara, Owerri – Senator Ifeanyi Araraume, at the weekend joined other peoples Democratic party PDP aspirants, including ex- governor of Imo state, Chief Ikedi Ohakim, in rejecting result of the gubernatorial primaries held on Monday 8th, December, 2014. The electoral committee for the primary election, had announced Speaker of the House of Representatives, Emeka […]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has criticized Governor Fayose and his aides’ diatribes against former President Olusegun Obasanjo on behalf of Ekiti people, saying they spoke in their individual capacity or at best on behalf their party. Reacting to Fayose’s condemnation of the visit of five PDP Governors to former President Obasanjo […]
Niyi Adeyi, Akure – Tragedy struck Saturday night in Akure, the Ondo State capital, as many souls perished in an explosion at a gas station, while several victims injured. Some of the residents around Arakale axis – the location of the explosion told our Correspondent, that the eruption occurred around 7.00 pm, touched vehicles and houses […]
