Louis van Gaal will not get drawn into any mind-games with Jose Mourinho this season and he says he still regards the Chelsea manager as his “friend”. Mourinho controversially claimed earlier this week that United were paying over the odds for Luke Shaw, a £27 million signing from Southampton who reportedly now earns in the […]
The recent exchanges between Professor Okey Ndibe, an intense columnist and essayist and Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, a cerebral clergyman and loquacious intellectual of Sokoto Arch-Diocese threw up issues of concern to many of us. I do not intend to respond on behalf of the scholarly Bishop. Everyone knows that he does not need my […]
President Barack Obama has commended young Africans attending the 2014 Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI) summit in Washington D.C. in the United States for their efforts to transform the continent. The US President during the meeting on Monday changed the name of the summit from Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI) to Mandela Washington Fellowship For […]
By Femi Fani-Kayode “We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us”- Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel, United Nations General Assembly, 1972. As it was […]
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, (NCAA) on Monday suspended all ASky Airline operations to Nigeria with immediate effect. The Acting Director General of the NCAA, Engineer Benedict Adeyileka, disclosed this at his Aviation House, Headquarters of the Authority that the regulatory authority have to take the action to protect Nigerians from the deadly Ebola virus […]
Oyewale Oyelola The embattled Nasarawa State Governor, Tanko Al’Makura has expressed confidence that he will be vindicated by probe panel inaugurated by state Chief Judge, Justice Umaru Dikko to investigate 16-points impeachment allegations. The Governor’s Senior Special Adviser on Public Affairs, Abdulhamid Kwarra stated that seven-team of Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN) will be defending […]
Agabus Pwanagba, Jos The country may have to strive longer in rescuing and reuniting over 200 abducted Chibok Secondary School girls in Borno State and the pressure on government to regain their freedom should be moderated. A delegate at the National Conference 2014, General Jonathan Temlong, stated this in an exclusive African Examiner in Jos, […]
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has urged Nigerians to work collectively to solve socio – economic and political challenges confronting the country. Fashola who made the statement in his goodwill message after his Salaah prayer on Monday said the citizens needed to work together and support the government in her efforts to improve the […]
Again, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has challenged President Goodluck Jonathan to make good his promises on resolve to conduct free and fair elections in the country. The task was given in a press statement issued in Lagos on Monday by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed. The party which blamed the President […]
The Lagos State Government says the Nigeria Ambassador to Liberia, Chigozie Obi-Nnadozie, three staff of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, and 55 others had contact with the victim of Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, Patrick Sawyer, who died in Lagos last Thursday. Patrick Sawyer, a 40-year old WASH Consultant, Finance Ministry in Liberia […]
Jamie Carragher says Barcelona new signing Luis Suarez ‘bullied’ Daniel Sturridge while the two were playing for Liverpool last season. Liverpool legend Carragher, who has backed Sturridge to be the main man at Anfield this season said the underrated England international got the rough end of the stick from Suarez at times last season. “I’m […]
Again, the Nigerian Muslim Leader and Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, has urged the insurgents in the Northern part of the country to fear God and stop the war against the citizens and country. Sultan Abubakar, made the call on Sunday in Sokoto in his Salaah message to the Nigerians. Abubakar, who is the […]
Sequel to possibility that copies of its draft report may not be ready for distribution among the delegates, the National Conference 2014 secretariat has announced change in the resumption date of members from August 4 to 11 this year. This, the conference management indicated was to avoid a situation where delegates return to Abuja without […]
A bomb has exploded at a petrol station Monday morning in Kano. The explosion occurred at about 10.45 am at Hotoro Quarters Round-about near an NNPC mega Petrol station along Maiduguri Road. Frank Mba, Police Public Relations Officer in a statement stated that three people died on the spot while some 8 others were injured […]
A foremost political pressure group in the South South region,Nigerian Grassroot Mobilizers for Goodluck Jonathan has thrown it’s support on the aspiration of an Urhobo born veteran journalist and erstwhile Aso Rock Villa Vanguard Newspaper News Editor, Comr. Daniel. Ovwigho Idonor even as he has expressed his intent to run for the Ughelli/Udu Federal Constituency […]
Ignatius Okpara, Abakaliki Four women in Afikpo North council Area of Ebonyi state have lost their lives, in a boat mishap which led to their drowning in a river. Secretary to Oziza Traditional Council of Elders in Afikpo, Chief Okpani Egwu, who confirmed the ugly incident to African Examiner on Sunday, said “it happened at […]
If truly the ex-governor committed any treason against the Federal Government or fingered the treasury of his home state, he ought to have been subjected to a house arrest immediately he was de-kitted of the immunity he once enjoyed. It’s like a medicine after death the story that Nyako’s security aides conversely whisked him out […]
Sunday Special:: By Oyewale Oyelola Once upon a time, President Goodluck Jonathan and some aggrieved PDP governors that later defected to All Progressives Congress (APC) were jolly friends whom many within PDP envy their cordial relationship. Consequently, they are always in Presidential entourage for functions in Nigeria, International meetings, Bi-lateral agreement signing and even accompany […]
Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon. Emeka Ihedioha has outlined concrete steps parliaments in Africa can take to support the battle against corruption in their countries. Speaking at the 45th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference (Africa region) in Arusha, Tanzania at the weekend, the deputy speaker identified corruption as a major factor stifling development in African […]
Abia State Governor, Chief Theodore Orji, has called on Muslims to pray for peace and unity of Nigeria as they celebrate this year’s Ramadan and Eid-Fitri festivities. In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Charles Ajunwa, Governor Orji said that the one-month holy prayer embarked upon by Muslims apart from the potency of […]
