AfricanFootball.com can exclusively reveal that ambitious Portuguese side, CD Aves has tabled offers for Flying Eagles stars, Akinjide Idowu and Zaharadeen Bello. Defensive midfielder Idowu and central defender Bello featured at the recent FIFA U-20 World Cup in New Zealand. A source informed AfricanFootball.com that Bello’s club Dabo Babes of Kano was studying the offer […]
*Backs President Moves To Recover Stolen Funds The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has thrown its weight behind President Muhammadu Buhari in his bid to investigate and recover the billions of naira looted by the immediate past administration of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan. “We received with great joy news of the resolution […]
By Adewale Kupoluyi – As the five-year tenure of the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega alongside six other national commissioners, comes to an end, the INEC boss may not be stage a come-back having declared on several occasions that he had no interest in seeking re-appointment. Jega was in 2010 appointed […]
Leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) in Bayelsa State have commended the state governor, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson, for regular payment of workers salaries. A statement by the State council chairmen of NLC, Ebipere Ndiomu and his TUC counterpart, Dounana Tari, said that their members were […]
By Niyi Adeyi – No fewer than 23 people have lost their lives, while a total of 1,675 buildings were destroyed in various disasters in the last four months in the South Western Nigeria. The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has announced that a total of 23 people have lost their lives, while 1,675 buildings […]
By Ayo Balogun, Lagos – Youths For Change Nigeria, a group of Nigerian youths, has expressed worry over the lingering National Assembly (NASS) crisis involving the APC and some of its members. The group National Leader, Mr. Seun Bobade, in a statement issued it issued Sunday night in Lagos, noted that the party was bigger than […]
Imo people are dying of hunger in the hands of Governor Rochas Okorocha . But like some strange figure from another planet, he seems absolutely unconcerned of the enormity of the problem. Every act of his demonstrates his lack of respect for the people he rule, and his gross underestimation of the level of political […]
*Calls For National Prayers For Buhari *I’m Still Cleaning Jonathan’s Rot -Buhari By Ganiyu Nasirudeen – The opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of inaction after a month of assumption to power, therefore, called on Nigerians to join hands in prayers for the present administration to make headway. […]
By Collins Amadi – Nigerian Reggae star, Victor Essiet of the Mandators Fame has been abducted by unknown attackers. The 80’s Reggae icon, reports indicated was kidnapped Saturday at his Nsit Ubiom area of Akwa Ibom state, South South Nigeria. The ugly development, our Correspondent gathered, occurred while Essiet who is also a song writer, […]
By Ignatius Okpara, Asaba – The Delta State Police Command has arrested a fake police corporal, identified as Mathew Ochoche, while escorting a vehicle conveying industrial machines in warri, Delta State. Police public Relations officer, PPRO of the Command, Celestine Kalu, made this known to newsmen on Saturday in Asaba, the state capital. She said, […]
Former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Dr (Mrs) Farida Waziri has described President Muhammadu Buhari as a man of destiny who must be supported by all Nigerians irrespective of their religious, ethnic and political affiliations. Waziri who is the founder and principal partner of Brookfield Chambers, a firm of legal practitioners […]
By Ayo Balogun, Lagos – The Lagos State Government moved in the bulldozer on Saturday and demolished the once notorious office headquarters of the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment programme, SURE-P taskforce at the old tollgate axis, along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. About 5,000 thugs were allegedly bred at the headquarters of SURE-P by a certain chieftain of […]
By Collins Amadi – The National Drug Law Enforcement (NDLEA) has announced it has arrested 85 suspects in connection with drug related offences in the last six months of the year. Ebonyi State Commander of the agency, Mr Raph Igwenagu made the confirmation Saturday, in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, at the kickoff of the […]
By Ignatius Okpara, Aba – The commercial city of Aba, Abia State was on friday thrown into confusion when soldiers and a team of mobile policeman engaged themselves in gun battle over claims of assault on a policeman. African Examiner learnt that trouble started when soldiers of the Forward Operation Base of the 144 Battalion, […]
At least 39 people, mostly foreigners, have been killed and 36 injured in an attack on a beach in the Tunisian resort town of Sousse, officials say. Video footage showed the body of a suspected gunman lying in a street. Tunisians, Britons, Germans, Belgians, French and at least one Irish citizen are among the dead […]
The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the U.S. Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry, handing a historic triumph to the American gay rights movement. The court ruled 5-4 that the Constitution’s guarantees of due process and equal protection under the law mean that states cannot ban same-sex marriages. With the landmark ruling, […]
Hon. Andrew Uchendu, the All Progressives Congress. APC, candidate at the March 28 National Assembly election for the Rivers East Senatorial District, has scored the first win over Sen. George Sekibo. The Election Petition Tribunal Holden in the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Jabi, Abuja earlier Friday granted all the prayers made by […]
Agabus Pwanagba, Jos – The Plateau State Police Command has paraded a young man who allegedly killed his father for refusing to buy him a motorcycle as promised. The suspect was paraded Friday, by the State’s Commissioner of Police, Nasiru Oki, at the Police Headquarters in Jos, the State Capital. Oki said, “On the 2nd, […]
The operatives of Independent Corrupt Practices And Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) have arrested and detained one Mr George Dawari who has not only been posing as a Medical Doctor but also involved in visa scams. During interrogation it was discovered that the suspect was neither a Medical Doctor nor did he work in the […]
By Ayo Balogun, African Examiner – Rivers state governor, Mr Nyesom Wike and immediate past first lady Mrs. Patience Jonathan have been accused of involving in a multi-billion frauds at the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC). The said fraudulent activities occurred in Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) under the supervision of Mr Wike, when he […]
