…Named Winner in Five Categories including Africa’s Leading Business Hotel Transcorp Hilton Abuja has been honoured with an unprecedented five awards by the voters of the 22nd World Travel Awards. The hotel, which is owned by Transcorp Hotels Plc, the hospitality subsidiary of Transnational Corporation of Nigeria Plc, emerged winner of the prestigious World Travel […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen – A member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Anthony Madwatte, representing Numan, Lamurde, Demsa Federal Constituency, in Adamawa, North Eastern Nigeria is dead. The late Federal Lawmaker who was elected under the platform of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), reportedly died yesterday (Sunday), of undisclosed an ailment. Madwatte who was among […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – he fence mending meeting conveyed by the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, John Odigie Oyegun between the Bukola Saraki and Ahmad Lawan group was deadlocked. Although the meeting was held behind closed door, African Examiner learnt that none of the two combatants were willing to shift ground. The […]
By Mustapha Abdul Salaam – Many people were feared dead Monday evening at a Fish market in Gamboru, Maiduguri, the Borno State, when two suicide bombers disguised as beggars and detonated the explosives planted in their body. While the first explosion erupted in the market, the second bomber was shortly killed with other victims closed […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the removal of military from non-essential check points nationwide. Speaking at a meeting with the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Defence, the Chief Of Defence Staff, Service Chiefs and Heads of National Security Agencies, President Buhari said, however, that military check-points could be retained in areas outside the North-Eastern states […]
As the federal government concludes plans to remove oil subsidy, pressure is mounting on President Muhammadu Buhari to retain the crude oil swap arrangement in order to save cost. The crude oil swap deal in lieu of subsidy may however be guided by tighter regulations and control. However, security agencies have fingered some international oil […]
President Muhammadu Buhari after arriving the Presidential Villa Abuja Sunday, officially resumed work at his office around 9.00 am on Monday. His Vice, Professor Yemi Osinbajo who also moved into the Presidential Villa yesterday (Sunday), also came into his Villa’s office shortly afterward. Professor Osinbanjo however joined President Buhari in meetings with aides and the […]
United States based veteran journalist, Mr Laolu Akande has been named the Spokesperson of the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo. His appointment was made public Monday morning from the VP’s office. Mr. Akande until his appointment, is the North America bureau chief of one of the Nigerian National Dailies, The Guardian Newspaper. He is also […]
Reuters – Around 1,400 passengers of the Polish airline LOT were grounded at Warsaw’s Chopin airport on Sunday after hackers attacked the airline ground computer systems used to issue flight plans, the company said. The computer system was hacked in the afternoon and fixed after around five hours, during which 10 of the state-owned carrier’s […]
By Ayo Balogun, Lagos – About three weeks after his inauguration, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has finally moved into Aso Presidential villa, the official residence of the Nigerian President. The Presidency had earlier told Nigerians that the president was unable to operate from Aso Rock following ongoing renovations of the complex. The president has thus […]
Mr. Aaron Kaase, the PSC staff who petitioned the EFCC and ICPC over alleged misrepresentation of facts to the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) with a view to swindling the government to the tune of N275.5m through PSC by its Chairman, Mr. Mike Okiro a former Inspector General of Police, has written to security agencies […]
By Ayo Balogun, Lagos – The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged state governments and the Federal Government to International Labour Organisation (ILO), requesting its Governing Body to establish without delay a Commission of Inquiry to examine systematic and egregious non-observance of Convention No 29 on Forced Labour and other international standards on […]
By Ayo Balogun, Lagos – The Lagos State Chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has asked Governor Akinwunmi Ambode to immediately set up a panel to probe the administration of former Governor Babatunde Fashola. The party wondered why Fashola is not being investigated, saying Ambode must immediately commence probe of the former governor’s eight […]
The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has dismissed as a wild goose chase the probe of the Chibuike Amaechi administration ordered by the Caretaker Governor of Rivers State, Chief Nyesom Wike. Wike had on Friday inaugurated a seven-man Judicial Commission of Inquiry (JCI) with Justice George Emereji as Chairman and given […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – Former Vice President and chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC), Atiku Abubakar says it is dangerous for any individual or group in the ranks of the ruling party to constitute themselves into an opposition even before the constitution and take off President Muhammadu Buhari’s government. The former Vice President made the […]
Five days after last Wednesday deadly shooting attack by the young Dylann Roof, in which nine people were killed, the African-American church in the South Carolina, Sunday was reopened and worshipers in their hundreds, trooped in for weekend services. Amid tight security, services began at 09:30 (13:30 GMT), with a black cloth being displayed on one of the […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu – The ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) Chairmen’s Forum has urged aggrieved parties in the ongoing National Assembly leadership wrangling to embrace peace and re-conciliatory moves by President Muhammadu Buhari and National leadership of the party. The Chairmen, in a statement signed by its Publicity Secretary and Enugu state Chairman, Dr. […]
The immediate past Governor of Rivers State, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has described the so-called probe of his administration by his successor Nyesom Wike, as a sham, a fraudulent witch-hunt meant to deceive the public. In a statement released by the former Governor’s Media Office Sunday, Amaechi described Wike as a sick man who […]
*Defection Motivated By Greed –Bayelsa Governor By Ayo Balogun – A close ally of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Mr. Diekivie Ikiogha and other PDP members have decamped to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa state. Ikiogha, a founding member of the PDP in Bayelsa state defected to the APC alongside about 43 non-governmental organisations, […]
