DELTA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Restive Niger Delta Avengers later Monday again struck as they destroyed two trunk lines at Batan community in Warri South Council area of Delta State. The attacked facilities belong to the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Also touched were two manifolds operated by the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC). Similarly, […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has saluted China’s decision to support Nigeria in its quest to actualize the transition from Analogue to Digital broadcasting. The Minister made the statement while responding to comments by the Vice-President of the StarTimes Group of China, Ms. Zhao Yueqin, who […]
By Ignatius Okpara, Abakaliki, EBONYI, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Barely two months Governor Dave Umahi, led administration in Ebonyi state uncovered job scam in its local government system involving 838 workers, the state Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), has again fished out another 250 ghost workers in the establishment. State Chairman of the commission Chief […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chairman, Senate Committee on Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Senator Dino Melaye, representing Kogi West has raised the alarm on what he called a plan by certain individuals to doctor the Police report on the investigation of allegation of forgery leveled against the leadership of the Senate so […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Monday confirmed the resignation of Mr. Timothy Oguntayo as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Skye Bank and his replacement with Mr. Tokunbo Abiru. The change of baton followed the dissolution by the CBN of the Bank’s Board of Directors and Management Monday. CBN […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Manchester United Manager Sir Alex Ferguson has certified that Ryan Giggs has done enough to serve the club, therefore it is necessary for him to leave as he has qualities to breakthrough in management. Giggs’s 29 years career ended as the new Man U Manager Jose Mourinho decided not […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Death toll in Sunday’s suicide bomb attack in Baghdad, the Iraqi’s capital has risen to 165. This was confirmed by the officials of the Interior Ministry. Following the sad event, government has declared three days of mourning as a mark of respect to the victims and families of the heavy […]
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the composition of the Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNP). A statement from presidency says the new board of is composed of the following: Chairman -Dr Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, Honourable Minister of State for Petroleum; B. Group Managing Director -Dr Maikanti Kacalla Baru; C. The Permanent Secretary […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja The Federal High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti, on Monday nullified the election of a People’s Democratic Party(PDP), representing Ado Constituency 1, Mr. Musa Arugundade and declared Mr Toyin Obayemi of the same party as the validly elected candidate in the April 11, 2015 general elections. The Court held that after the disqualification of […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami has denied having hands in the raging constitutional crisis rocking Abia State. Malami promised that the crises would soon be resolved by the law court. He therefore urged all parties involved to wait for the outcome of […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), has denied media reports that he was behind the legal stalemate over the Abia state governorship seat, saying “those canvassing the position have no basis to do so.” While insisting that so far, nobody has approached him to proffer […]
Governor Henry Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has appealed to ex-militants to be calm and exercise patience with the Federal Government over delay in the payment of their stipends. He also called on the Presidential Amnesty Office to urgently pay whatever was due the ex-agitators. The Governor”s call is coming amidst plans by the ex=agitators […]
How are you, my brother? I thank God, just hunger and fuel scarcity. Hunger is everywhere for sure; that was the gift Badluck left for the masses. You got that right. He supervised the looting of the treasury to the very last day of his kleptocracy. But that is about to change. Are you serious? […]
…Kick Against Proposed Gracing Reserve Commission. By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu Enugu Nigeria, (African Examiner) – The three Roman Catholic church Bishops in Enugu state on saturday led members of their Dioceses on a protest rallies over the menace of fulani herdsmen in the state, and elsewhere The protest, which held simultaneously in the Dioceses of […]
Pursuant to its 2016 strategic goals towards improving road safety, the Federal Road Safety Corps has deployed 600 patrol vehicles, 50 Ambulances, 85 motor bikes, 15 tow trucks and over 20,000 personnel including special marshals, along designated routes as part of measures to ensure sanity on the nation’s highways, during this year’s Eid-el-Fitri Sallah celebration […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – I am writing this piece after holding a series of conversations with Lagos street traders and hawkers who seem not be aware of or are just indifferent to, or may be they are intrigued by, the fact that the State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode has declared on television that the state […]
BALYELSA, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bayelsa State Governor Henry Seriake Dickson has directed the new Auditor-General of the state , Mr Godknows Offurugbo, to ensure that, all departments and agencies of the government remain accountable, while at the same time ensuring regular release of statement of audited accounts of the state. He said the directive […]
By IGNATIUS OKPARA ENUGU, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Jail break was on friday night averted at the Enugu prison, following a protest staged by the inmates over alleged maltreatment by the authorities, just as security have been beefed up within the area. Meanwhile, the development has heightened tension in Enugu metropolis, as residents were […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bayelsa State Government has expressed appreciation to teachers in the state for their co-operation during the on-goingverification exercise just as it has decried the activities of ghost workers on its payroll. The verification, it also said, was responsible for delay in the payment of the teachers but would now start after the exercise. […]
By Owei Lakemfa BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The world, or better still, Europe is still in shock. This accounts for the confused and sometimes incoherent reactions to the Thursday, June 23, democratic decision by the United Kingdom to exit the European Union (EU) The Union was expected to grow, not shrink! From six countries […]
