(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian musician Ukeleke Onwubuya better known as Ras Kimono has passed on in a hospital in Lagos. Ras kimono dominated the Nigerian music industry in the late 80’s after his debut album titled “Under pressure” brought him to limelight. While there has been no official statement from his family, prominent Nigerians including […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc’s flagship Chat Banking personality, Leo, is set to change the face of e-banking across Key African markets following its launch in Cameroon, Zambia, Cote D’Ivoire, Senegal and Congo. Already Leo which has been very active in Africa’s biggest market, Nigeria, has brought ease to the customers, as it has […]
Photo: Deputy Speaker, Lasun Yusuff (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP) has urged both the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) and Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) to jointly investigate abuse of office against Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Lasun Yusuff. SERAP alleged that Mr Lasun […]
Photo: President/CEO, Africa Heritage Center, Ambassador Tunde Adetunji (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The brain drain syndrome has remained one of the critical issues that are affecting the human resource development index of Nigeria as professionals in various fields of human endeavor are by each passing day jetting out of the country without looking inward. The reason for the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Britain’s richest man has had a bid to buy Chelsea football club turned down by Roman Abramovich, according to British media reports. The Daily Mail reported that Jim Ratcliffe, the chairman and chief executive of multinational petrochemicals group Ineos, expressed an interest in the Premier League club which the Russian has owned […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Government has declared Tuesday, June 12, as public holiday to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the annulled 1993 Presidential election adjudged to have been won by late MKO Abiola. This is contained in a statement signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Mr Tunji Bello, on Saturday. Bello […]
Photo: Olorogun O’tega Emerhor (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Delta State, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor has commended President Muhammadu Buhari’s sense of fairness, justice and courage in addressing the long overdue issue of honouring Chief MKO Abiola, his running mate, Alhaji Babagana Kingibe, other unsung heroes of democracy and the recognition […]
Photo: President Muhammadu Buhari (AFRCAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari says he stopped his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity Femi Adesina from replying former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s letter against his administration because of Adesina’s age. The president explained the reasons when members of Buhari Support Organisation visited him at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Awka (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The trial judge in the August 6th, 2017 Ozubulu church massacre, Justice Fidelis Aniukwu, Friday at an Awka High court, during the resumed sitting lambasted the prosecution counsel Jay Jay Ezeuko, a senior Advocate of Nigeria, (SAN), over his lackluster attitude to the case, saying the matter is becoming irritating. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has assented to the Constitution Fourth Alteration Bill, which grants financial autonomy to the State Houses of Assembly and the States’ Judiciary. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Sen. Ita Enang, confirmed this development to State House Correspondents in Abuja on Friday. “Therefore, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ghana has announced her resolve to dissolve its National Football Association a day after officials, were shown a documentary of an alleged taking kickback. Information Minister Mustapha Abdul-Hamid alleged that the FA President Kwesi Nyantakyi was involved in the scandal. The two-hour documentary, titled: “When Greed and Corruption Become the Norm’’, by undercover […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Mr. Folashodun Adebisi Shonubi as Deputy Governor at the Central Bank of Nigeria. Mr. Folashodun Shonubi is currently the Managing Director of the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System Plc (NIBSS) – the financial payments, facilitation and settlement platform – which has been instrumental to the growth […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has cried out that President Mohammadu Buhari is planning to arrest him and jail on false charges but insisted that no amount of intimidation will cow him into silence. In a statement issued on his behalf by his media aide Kehinde Akinyemi, Obasanjo disclosed that reliable top echelon […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Aviation professionals, under the aegis of Aviation Round Table (ART), on Friday advised the Federal Government to be minimally involved in the proposed new national carrier. The group’s President, Mr Gbenga Olowo, gave the advice in a statement issued in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Federal Government […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – TV celebrity and food writer Anthony Bourdain has been found dead in his hotel room in France while working on his CNN series on culinary traditions around the world. He was 61. CNN confirmed the death, saying in a statement that Bourdain was found unresponsive Friday morning by friend and chef Eric […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State on Thursday commended President Muhammadu Buhari for giving the late business mogul, Chief Moshood Abiola, the highest national honour in the country. The governor, who gave the commendation at a press conference in Ado Ekiti, said he was overwhelmed by the president’s action. He, however, urged […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi has said that N100 billion would be needed by the contractors to complete the dualisation of the East-West road. Amaechi, together with the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Pastor Usani Uguru Usani, said this during the inspection tour of the Dualisation of the East-West road, which […]
By Tajudeen Balogun Head, African Examiner, Nigeria Bureau (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Despite its 19 years of existence, the National Examinations Council (NECO) up till present, remains on a shaky footing, with regards to the real purpose it was established – conducts of a standard Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (SSCE) and the General Certificate in Education (GCE). […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There are three aspects – the strategic, the political and the legal – to the Federal Government’s decision to replace May 29 with June 12 as Nigeria’s Democracy Day, and to confer on the late Chief MKO Abiola, the highest honour in the land. Strategy: Long before now, the Buhari government had […]
From Ignatius Okpara UMUAHIA. NIGERIA, (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tough time now awaits any Fulani herdsman who engages in open cattle grazing, in Abia State, South- East Nigeria, as the State’s House of Assembly has finally passed the Anti- grazing bill into law. According to the lawmakers, the law is aimed at curbing the menace of the Fulani cattle […]
