Photo caption: Former Nigeria’s Vice President Atiku Abubakar (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has accused the Buhari’s government of sidelining him after helping it to power. Speaking on the Hausa Service of the Voice of America (VOA) on Wednesday, Atiku said: “Honestly speaking, I’m still a member of the APC; I was part […]
Photo caption: PIX CAPTION: L-R: Chamberlain Usoh with Chairman, LCC Squash Section, Arc. Funmi Bamkole, Representative of Akwa Ibom state Governor, Mr Samuel Bassey, Tom Ford, NSF President, Boye Oyerinde and Ramsey Nouah. LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Emmanuel Udom of Akwa Ibom State has lauded the recently concluded maiden edition of Chamberlain Squash Open […]
From Ignatius Okpara IMO NIGERIA, (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Imo state Police Command on Thursday in Owerri, the Imo state capital, South -East Nigeria, paraded five suspected killers of Rev. Fr. Cyriacus Onunkwo, of the Orlu Catholic Diocese, who was kidnapped and murdered last weekend. They were paraded before newsmen by the State’s Commissioner of […]
EKITI, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Apparently due to the latest political twist especially with regards to the State’s 2018 Governorship election, the acting National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Prince Adedayo Adeyeye has resigned his appointment as the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman, Governing Council of the Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti. The […]
From Ignatius Okpara ENUGU, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu State Police Command says it has begun investigation into the circumstances surrounding the alleged drowning of three children of same family in a well at Ezeama community in Igboetiti council Area of the state. Our Correspondent gathered that the children fell into the well and […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The battle for the political soul of Ezeagu council Area of Enugu state, South East Nigeria, in the forthcoming local government election scheduled for November 4th, 2017,Tuesday hots up, as a retired Army Brigadier-General, Felix Okafor, joined the chairmanship race. African Examiner reports that the Aspirant who pledged […]
Photo caption: Senator Isah Misau ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Service Commission (PSC) has confirmed the retirement of Senator Isah Misau. Misau, who is representing Bauchi central senatorial district and Chairman, Senate committee on Navy has since been enmeshed in retirement letter controversy. The Head, PSC Press and Public Relations Ikechukwu Ani Wednesday in […]
Photo caption: Prof. Kolapo Olusola (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ekiti state governor, Ayo Fayose may have anointed his deputy Prof. Kolapo Olusola as likely successor when his tenure expires in 2018. This indication arose on Wednesday as the Ekiti People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Stakeholders which is under firm control of the governor announced Prof. Kolapo Olusola as […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has been tasked to personally see to the quickest resolution of the near -intractable reasons for the ongoing industrial actions in the tertiary educational institutions and the public health sector. Making the charge in a press statement is the HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) which emphasized that […]
By Mustapha Abdul Salam KANO, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government (FG) has announced that this week’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting will not hold. According to the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed in an announcement Tuesday in Kano, FG said the cancellation was due to inadequate time to prepare the […]
Photo caption: Lagos state governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode (R) receives the new Lagos police chief Imohimi Edgal in his officie at Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos. By Ayo Balogun, Lagos LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode said he is confident in the ability of the new Commissioner of Police in the State, Mr Imohimi […]
Photo caption: Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose in full Islamic regalia (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Following his appearance in Islamic regalia and turban on Friday, 1st September, 2017 during Sallah celebration, a Muslim group, Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has said the Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose committed an act of Sacrilege adding that his […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu Nigeria (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Catholic Bishop of Orlu Diocese, in Imo state, South East Nigeria, Most Rev. Dr. Augustine Ukwuoma, immediate and extended families, as well as friends of slain Catholic Priest, Rev. Fr. Cyriacus Onunkwo, have called on law enforcement agencie and the state government to ensure that perpetrators […]
Photo caption: Tony Nwoye From Ignatius Okpara ENUGU NIGERIA, (AFRICAN EXAMINER) -The South – East zone chapter of the Buhari Support Organisation (BSO) has congratulated and thrown its weight behind the flag-bearer of All Progressives Congress (APC) for Anambra State Governorship election, Hon. Tony Nwoye. It said the candidate is broad minded, pro-people and has […]
Photo caption: Mr Austyn Ogannah, Publisher of Thewill and new President of the Online Publishers Association of Nigeria (OPAN) (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Online Publishers Association of Nigeria (OPAN), Nigeria’s premier association of digital and internet publishers, has announced the election of a new executive. The new executive will run the affairs of the group for […]
Photo caption: Reuben Abati (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Religion was not quite a major divisive issue in the community in which we lived in the Old Cross River State in my days as a student there. On Sundays, students felt free to attend church service either within the campus or outside. I do not recall any […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Abakaliki (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Heavy flood has destroyed properties valued several millions of naira, including that of a former governor, and serving Senator in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi state capital South- East Nigeria. The disaster, which mostly affected people living around Onwe road occurred in the early hours of Sunday. It submerged a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has expressed his condolences to the friends and family of veteran Kannywood Actor Kasimu Yero, who died on Sunday in Kaduna. In a statement issued in Lagos on Monday, the Minister described the late Yero as an iconic actor who, along with other thespians […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) -All Progressives Congress (APC), Ebonyi chapter, on Monday in Abakaliki held a rally to celebrate President Muhammadu Buhari’s return from medical vacation, as well as drum support for his second term in 2019. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the rally created heavy human and vehicular traffic long Afikpo and old […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Orlu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police Authorities in Imo state, Southeast Nigeria, Sunday confirmed the abduction and subsequent killing of a Roman catholic priest, identified as Rev. Father Cyriacus Onunkwo, by unknown gunmen. African Examiner gathered that the development has thrown the entire Catholic Diocese of Orlu and environs into shock and tension, […]
