(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Industrial Court of Nigeria has ordered the organized labour, comprising the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) not to embark on its planned indefinite strike scheduled to commence on Tuesday, November 6, 2018. Justice Sanusi Kado gave the order Friday in a ruling on an ex parte […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A reporter with the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) has jumped into Lagos Lagoon. Later in the morning Friday, the Lagos Rapid Response Squad (RRS) posted on its Facebook wall that a man has jumped into the Lagoon and its men with the support of the marine policemen have discovered the person […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – THE Federal High Court sitting at Asaba has issued a contempt notice on the National chairman of APC, Adams Oshiomhole for disobeying its order not to submit list of Delta APC candidates to INEC and on the Chairman of INEC for disobeying its order not to receive and publish such candidates names […]
…As Bayelsa Receives N24.1 Billion Paris Club Refund The Governor of Bayelsa State, the Honourable Henry Seriake Dickson, has directed payment of two months out of the outstanding three months salary arrears and four months of the outstanding seven months pension arrears in the state. The Commissioner for Finance, Mr. Maxwell Ebibai, said in a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Suspected Boko Haram insurgents have killed 13 people and sacked two villages overnight in the restive town of Konduga in Borno, North East Nigeria. The Acting General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the 7 Division of the Nigerian Army, Brig.-Gen. Bulama Biu, confirmed the attack Thursday in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. Biu however, […]
KANO, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The alleged bribery scandal against Kano State Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has assumed more critical dimension as the seven-man panel, of the State’s House of Assembly probing the allegation, has summoned him to appear before it Friday- November 2, 2018. Gaduje’s summon is contained in a letter, dated Wednesday, October 31, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Staff at the Google offices around the world Thursday stage an unprecedented series of walkouts in protest against the company’s treatment of women. The employees in the protest are demanding several key changes in how sexual misconduct allegations are dealt with at the firm, including a call to end forced arbitration – a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Following the club’s owner death in a helicopter crash at the weekend, Leicester Manager Claude Puel has declared that the result of their first match after the sad incident with Cardiff Saturday is “not important” but to honour the late CEO. Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and four others were killed in the crash outside King […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Publicity Secretary of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) North West, Alhaji Yusuf Babura has resigned his position. Babura announced his resignation Thursday in Dutse, the Jigawa State capital. He explained that he left the PDP out of his personal desire and he is presently consulting with his supporters on […]
Photo: Dean, faculty of law University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) Prof. (Mrs) Joy Ezeilo From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu …Wants Judiciary, Citizens To Rise Up A social crusader and Dean, faculty of law University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) Prof. (Mrs) Joy Ezeilo, has expressed worry of alarming rate of human rights abuses in Nigeria, saying that Justice […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As the Nigeria prepares for the 2019 general elections, a popular Enugu-based prophet, Anthony Nwoko has descended on President Muhammadu Buhari, who is the All progressive congress APC candidate, and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar,of the PDP, saying the two Northern politicians are not solutions to the country’s economic and […]
