(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A businessman, Mr Olanrewaju Gentry was on Tuesday remanded in Ikoyi Prison custody for allegedly assaulting his actress wife Mercy Aigbe. He will be in custody until he fulfils his bail terms. Gentry 52, was arraigned before magistrate O. Aje. Afunwa in Ogba, Lagos, for alleged wife battery. He was arraigned on […]
Photo caption: L-R: Director, NASCON Allied Industries Plc, Halima Dangote Executive Director Commercial, NASCON Allied Industries Plc, Fatima Dangote and the Managing Director, NASCON Allied Industries Plc, Paul Farrer at the company’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) held recently in Lagos. (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Executive Director Commercial of NASCON Allied Industries Plc, Fatima Aliko Dangote has […]
Photo caption: Mr. Tony O. Elumelu, Chairman of Heirs Holdings and Founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – “Embrace legacy, you are not here forever,” Mr. Tony O. Elumelu, Chairman of Heirs Holdings, and Founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, urged policymakers as he represented the African private sector at the opening session […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu state House of Assembly has passed a law amending the gubernatorial pension bill of 2015 ex-Governors and their Deputies to take pensions for life. However, the law has a proviso that the governor or the deputy must not be impeached in order to earn such life […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila on Tuesday named a new transitional government, state television said, defying opponents who say he is in violation of a previous agreement. Kabila, in power since 2001, struck a deal in December with Congo’s main opposition bloc to allow him to stay on after his […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – In its first thirty nine years as an independent country , military dictators ruled Nigeria for twenty nine years. They were years when the country was almost drowned in rivers of blood including a three-year Civil War which claimed over two million lives. Professionalism and esprit de corps departed the military to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A political movement, National Forum of Democrats (NFD), has described as insincere, comments by the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, over the health challenges of President Muhammadu Buhari saying the words were meant to please the President “but lack emotional depth.” The organisation demanded “an […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At least six people have been killed in a car bombing outside a Mogadishu restaurant, including a senior Somali military general. Government officials have told VOA’s Somali Service that General Abdi Bashir Aden was among those killed in the Monday bombing. Ten others were injured when the bomb went off shortly before […]
Photo Caption: Bayelsa Gov Seriake Dickson with Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachukwu flanked by Senator Foster Ogola and Secretary to the State Government Barr. Serena Dokubo-Spiff at the OTC Oil and Gas conference in Houston By Daniel Iworiso-Markson The recently concluded Oil and Gas Trade Conference (OTC) in Houston, Texas, United States […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Five communities currently being ravaged by alarming erosion in Anambra state, South East Nigeria, have cried out over the disaster, calling on the state governments to come to their rescue, just as they listed conditions for the support of Obiano’s 2nd term re-election ambition. The communities include, Ufuma, […]
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA , Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As part of measure to ensure a decent and effective management of traffic rules and regulations in line with global best practices , the Enugu State Government has commenced a one-month training for over 150 persons to be recruited as Traffic Enforcement Bureau officials. Declaring the training […]
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governors of South East geopolitical zone of Nigeria on Sunday resolved to intervene in the alarming epileptic power situation in the area which has continued to hinder economic growth in the region. Rising from their meeting held at the Enugu government house, the governors said they have agreed […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government of Nigeria has described as indecent, inhuman and ill-timed the statement credited to a faction of the PDP criticizing the process that led to the release of the 82 Chibok Girls last weekend. In a statement issued in Abuja Monday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, […]
AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has congratulated Emmanuel Macron on his election as the next President of France. In a congratulatory letter to the President-elect, Prof. Osinbajo said he received the news of the election of the 39-year old Macron with satisfaction, noting that under successive governments, the relations between Nigeria and […]
*Osinbajo to Function as Ag. President (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Following his protracted ill health, President Muhammadu Buhari has proceeded to London for follow-up medical consultation with his doctors. A statement from his media aide, Femi adesina said the president had planned to leave Sunday afternoon, but decided to tarry a bit, due to the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron has decisively won the French presidential election, projected results say. Mr Macron defeated far-right candidate Marine Le Pen by about 65% to 35% to become, at 39, the country’s youngest president, the results show. If confirmed, he will also become the first president from outside the two traditional […]
(CNN)North Korea has detained a US citizen on suspicion of acts against the Pyongyang regime, the state-run Korean Central News Agency reported Sunday. The regime described Kim Hak-song as “a man who was doing business in relation to the operation of Pyongyang University of Science and Technology.” KCNA said the American was detained Saturday, but […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UNICEF has expressed delight over Saturday’s release of over 80 of the girls abducted by Boko Haram insurgents at their school in Chibok over three years ago. Pernille Ironside, Acting Representative of UNICEF Nigeria says: “It is heartening to know that the girls will be returning to their families who have been […]
Newcastle manager Rafa Benitez says he is planning for life in the Premier League after a traumatic 24 hours at St James’ Park. The 57-year-old guided the club back into the English top flight, Premiership league. Benitez insisted it was business as usual as he prepared his side for Friday night’s Championship trip to Cardiff, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ex-Federal lawmaker, Hon Bimbo Daramola, on Friday flagged-off the distribution of free Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board, JAMB, forms to 1,000 prospective candidates from all across Ekiti State. Addressing the prospective JAMB candidates during the event, Hon Daramola, said the flag-off of his ” Teach Them How To Fish Platform” is set […]
