Nigeria’s senate has confirmed Mr. Godwin Emefiele as the new Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria. Mr Emefiele replaces the embattled Mallam Sanusi Lamido, who was suspended recently by President Jonathan over allegations of fraud and abuse of office.
Developments at the National Conference are unsettling the presidency, a key figure in government has told Newspot Nigeria, as delegates to the conference continue to bicker over the stipulation by President Goodluck that resolutions would be passed by 75 percent of the delegates when they cannot do so through consensus. To put a quick end […]
Kayode Adelowokan, Lagos Following the Tuesday’s strange fire that gutted the Lagos office of the Central Bank of Nigeria, the apex bank has assured its stakeholders and the general public that its records are intact. The fire incident, which started at about 5:10pm with thick smoke emanating from the first floor of the building after […]
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu A total of 44 (forty-four) graduating students of the University of Nigeria Nsukka UNN will on Friday smile home with 1st Class Honours of the institution, during its 2014 and 43rd convocation ceremony, Vice Chancellor of the school, Prof. Bartho Okolo has disclosed. Briefing newsmen Monday at the Enugu campus of the […]
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu South East Governors Forum Tuesday met in Enugu resolving to jointly tackle security challenges in the zone. Briefing newsmen at the end of the meeting, Abia state Governor, and Chairman of the Forum, chief Theordor Orji, said they agreed on how they could jointly as governors, and chief security officers of their […]
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Umuahia For imposing illegal levies on residents and businessmen in the commercial city of Aba, Abia state, the Governor Theodore Orji led government Tuesday announced the suspension of two commissioners engaging in the act. The suspended commissioners are Emesobum Ikechukwu of Transport Ministry and his Commerce and Industry counterpart, Chisom Nwamuo. In a […]
By Muyiwa Bamidele, Abuja There are indications that the short supply of petrol across Nigeria may still linger for a while as Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) attributed the current fuel scarcity to the late payment of importers. The new Executive Secretary of Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) Faruk Ahmed stated this during […]
Agabus Pwanagba, Jos The Plateau State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it has arrested 25 persons among which 5 are females for suspected drug trafficking offences and over 5000kg canabis intercepted in the State, between January and March, 2014. The State Commandant of the Agency, Anthonia Madubuike disclosed to journalists […]
The minister of state for power, on Mohammed Wakil has alerted the public over what he called infrastructure terrorism now afflicting critical national infrastructures and sabotaging government programmes in some sectors of the economy. Speaking at a press briefing on the state of the power sector at the ministry of power headquarters yesterday, Wakil defined […]
A group of concerned citizens of Nigeria under the aegis of Abuja activists flooded Ministry of Interior on Tuesday demanding for immediately removal of the Minister of Interior, Abba Moro. The protest followed the recent lost of lives of nineteen young Nigerians at the last Immigration recruitment exercise nationwide. They painted the front of the […]
Agabus Pwanagba, Jos The killing of a student of Solomon Lar University (Plateau State University), Bokkos, Plateau State by unknown gunmen led to a mass protest by student on Tuesday morning, which cause pandemonium in Bokkos town and environs. A source told African Examiner that three students were shot late Monday night around their hostel […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos An unidentified fire fighter has collapsed as thick smoke envelops him while fighting to put out the fire that gutted the Lagos office of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in Marina, Lagos, Nigeria on Tuesday. Properties estimated millions of naira were destroyed in the inferno. Thick smoke of fire was seen […]
The Presidency on Tuesday refuted reports quoting President Goodluck Jonathan as ‘’confirming’’ in Amsterdam that Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) wrongly withheld 10 billion Dollars from the Federation Account. Dr Reuben Abati, the Senior Special Adviser to the President Media and Publicity, made the denial in a statement in Abuja. The statement described the report […]
Oyewale Oyelola The striking lecturers in four higher institutions owned by Osun state have vowed not to return to class until government meet their demands. The Chairman, Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic (ASUP) Osun State Polytechnic, Iree who doubles as Public Relations Officer of The Council of Academic Staff Union of Osun State Owned Tertiary […]
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said no fewer than 100 communities had been displaced by herdsmen in Benue. The North-Central Zonal Coordinator of the agency, Mr Abdusalam Mohammed, said this on Monday in Makurdi when he presented relief materials to displaced victims at the St. Mary’s Primary School, Makurdi. Mohammed, who led a […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos Mr. Tunde Fowler, Chairman of the Lagos Internal Revenue Service, LIRS, has resigned his appointment to join the growing list of aspirants wanting to take over from Governor Babatunde Fashola in 2015. He was said to have submitted his resignation letter to Fashola recently, but that it was turned down, but for […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos Parents of students of Ogba Junior Grammar School, Ogba area of Lagos, Nigeria on Monday stormed the office of the Lagos State Governor to protest the continued closure of the school after poisonous gas left over 13 students unconscious recently. The parents carried placards and demanded for the relocation of the school […]
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu The Enugu state police command has declared leader of Biafra Zionist Movement (BZM), Barrister Onwuka Benjamin Igwe wanted for treasonable felony. African Examiner reports that the group had two weeks ago, claimed responsibility of the early hour attack of Enugu state government House on 8th (March) 2014. Besides, BZM had also threatened […]
Former Senior Special Assistant to former president Olusegun Obasanjo, Barr Segun Oluwadare has chided Prince Dayo Adeyeye and other Ekiti State Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) governorship aspirants clamouring for consensus over what he described as act of disloyalty to the party leadership. Oluwadare who spoke with journalists in Abuja on Monday said he was neither a […]
Press Release: President Goodluck Jonathan Monday at the Hague in the Netherlands reaffirmed Nigeria’s full commitment to the global fight against the threat of nuclear terrorism, but said that Nigeria, under his leadership will continue to pursue efforts to harness nuclear energy and technology for socio-economic development. In his statement to the third global security […]
