By Ayo Balogun As the preparation for this year’s Christmas reaches peak, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has warned Nigerians to be conscious that the renewed war against the dreaded Boko Haram by the troops “is not over until it is over”. While noting that the onslaught being launched on the terrorists and which has […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ousted and embattled world football governing body FIFA President Sepp Blatter and his UEFA counterpart, Michel Platini have been suspended for eight years from participating in all football-related activities. The decision followed the outcome of investigations by the FIFA ethics committee. The committee submitted Monday that the duo were found […]
By Niyi Adeyi The Federal Government has faulted and described as a hoax the casualty’s figures claimed by the ISIS concerning the number of attacks carried out by its Nigeria’s allied, Boko Haram and the number of people it killed in the country in the last two months. A statement issued in Abuja Monday, by […]
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, CNPP has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari, to reinstate the 66 soldiers whose death sentence was recently commuted to 10 years imprisonment. It said her call became necessary in view of revelations emanating from the trial of former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd). […]
*Says APC Propaganda Won’t Go Anywhere The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Restoration Campaign Organisation in Bayelsa State, has described as outright lies and false propaganda, claims by the All Progressives Congress (APC) that Governor Henry Seriake Dickson has stopped December salaries of civil servants. The RCO also denied buying up voter cards ahead of the […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Campaign Organisation in Bayelsa State has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of masterminding the kidnap of the younger sister of Governor Henry Seriake Dickson in Yenagoa, describing it as political. The party warned the governor’s immediate family and relatives to be mindful of where they […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – So much has been said about the December 12 confrontation between the Nigerian Army and members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria led by Sheik Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, the leader of the Shia in Nigeria. I guess the point has been well-made that there are faults on both sides. There seems […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The People’s Democratic Party, (PDP), Restoration Campaign Organization in Bayelsa has uncovered plot by the All Progressives Congress, (APC) to mislead the innocent voters through the spread of falsehood and propaganda particularly people of Southern Ijaw local government area of the state as regards the January 9, 2016 rescheduled election and the […]
*Beats Everton 3-2 Leicester City’s amazing run continued Saturday as the Foxes beat Everton 3-2 at Goodison Park to stay top of the Premier League. Riyad Mahrez scored a penalty kick in each half and Shinji Okazaki sealed the win after Romelu Lukaku had drawn Everton level in the first half and Kevin Mirallas pulled […]
Key political actors under the aegis of Stakeholders in the All Progressives Congress in Kogi West have called on the Kogi State governor-elect, Alhaji Yahaya Bello and the national leadership of the party to accept a replacement for Abiodun Faleke. According to them, their demand became pertinent following the refusal of Abiodun Faleke to accept the […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The death sentences by firing squad passed on 66 soldiers in January and March 2015 by separate General Court Martials have been commuted to 10 years imprisonment each. Acting Director of Army Public Relations, Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman made this public in a statement he issued Saturday. Army recalled that […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) Former Netherlands boss Guus Hiddink has been appointed interim Chelsea manager until the end of the season following the sacking of Jose Mourinho. The 69-year-old also managed the Blues on a temporary basis for the final three months of the 2008-09 campaign. “I am excited to return,” said the Dutchman. “Chelsea […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Pro- Shiite jihadists have hacked the official website of the Lagos State Government, www.lagosstate.gov.ng and posted messages describing the Nigerian Government, United States, Israel and others as state sponsors of terrorism. The group posted the message probably in retaliation for the arrest of leader of the Shiite Islamic Sect, Zakzaky. The message […]
By Tajudeen Balogun, Head, African Examiner, Nigeria Bureau These are not best of the times for the most populous and biggest African country. Giving the present state of things, Nigeria can be equated to a ‘compacted, congested and suffocated kitchen’ – where the survival of the occupants is only by the special grace of the […]
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted bail to the former National Security Adviser (NSA) Col. Sambo Dasuki and four others standing trial over the misappropriation of the sum of $2.1 Billion arms money. Others accused granted bail Friday by Justice Hussien Baba-Yusuf included a former Director in the NSA office, Shuaibu Salisu, […]
By Eric Ojo, Abuja BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged the Republic of Benin, to take measures that will further improve fiscal policy management and implementation of structural reforms to enhance the business environment and foster greater diversification of the country’s economy. The IMF Board […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson on Friday put the average statistics of the voters that took part in the December 5, 2015, governorship election at 40 per cent, contrary to the claim of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) candidate, Chief Timipre Sylva. He made the clarification while featuring on […]
By Ayo Balogun, Abuja BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has nullified the entire election which produced Mr. Udom Emmanuel as the Governor of Akwa Ibom State, South South Nigeria. In a lead judgment on the parallel appeal filed by the respondent and candidate of the ruling APC, Chief Umana […]
By Ayo Balogun, Abuja BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Akwa Ibom State Governor, Mr. Udom Emmanuel has lost his appeal challenging the judgment of the state Governorship Election Petition Tribunal which ordered fresh elections in 18 local governments area of the state. The five-man panel of the appeal court sitting in Abuja dismissed Governor Emmanuel’s […]
