By Olawale Rasheed Amidst harsh economic condition, the one-year-old administration of president Muhammadu Buhari has been receiving hard knocks and praises from friends and foes alike. It has not been a bed of roses for either the administration or Nigerians. With blame game still high in the political space, Nigerians are struggling to understand what […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – George Zimmerman, a 32-year old American murdered a black boy, Trayvon Benjamin Martin. He is set free, and decides to further profit from his crime, by selling the murder weapon. He pockets $250,000 from the weapon sale, smiles to the bank having first become, famous or infamous for his crime, and now […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has said the state government will pay workers who are not on strike their salary from the little monthly allocation that came from Abuja. He also opined that embarking on strike is not the solution to the poor resources available to the government that […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has expressed deep worries over the widening of the nation’s fault lines, saying such was not healthy for the nation’s democracy and development. Ekweremadu stated this in his Democracy Day message to the nation, maintaining that whereas ethnicity and other diversities within Nigeria […]
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka says those against his appointment as Co-Chairman of the Lagos at 50 Celebration Committee are ignorant. The Eko Foundation, an indigenous group has been clamouring for Soyinka to resign as co-chairman of the committee as he is not from Lagos. But Soyinka, who spoke at a special children programme tagged […]
British Airways is evaluating its routes to Nigeria, adding to aviation-industry pressure on the government as sister carrier Iberia and U.S. competitor United Airlines halt flights to the oil-based market as traffic stutters and currency controls delay access to revenue. The U.K. carrier is struggling to repatriate its share of the $575 million that Nigeria currently […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Brazilian Police are hunting for over 30 men suspected of raping a teenage girl in Rio de Janeiro and later posted video of the attack on social media. The 16-years old girl, believed she was doped after visiting her boyfriend in house Saturday and says she woke up in a different house, surrounded […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The monthly wage bill of Sagbama Local Government in Bayelsa state has dropped from N200 million to N30 million, it was learnt on Friday. The situation has therefore led to the arrest of the Secretary to the Local Government Education Authority (LGEA) in the area over alleged falsification of nominal […]
By Ignatius Okpara, Owerri IMO, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Scores of pensioners in Imo state, South East Nigeria, have gone spiritual, over the non-payment of their pensions and gratuities by the state government. The senior citizens, as they are otherwise called had on Thursday staged a prayer session to seek God’s intervention on the issue. According to […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – National Industrial Court (NIC) has ordered the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) to shelve its planned industrial action slated for Wednesday, to protest against the new pump price fuel. The order which is renewable after seven days followed an ex-parte motion filed by the Attorney General […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Proprietor of Giwa FC and controversial factional NFF President, Chris Giwa and five others have been slammed with a five year ban by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), over the lingering glass house leadership tussle. The ban was contained in a letter signed by the CAFSecretary General, […]
By Garba Shehu Twelve months ago, President Muhammadu Buhari was sworn in as the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He came to power following the decisive victory of his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC over the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP and its candidate, Dr. Goodluck […]
KANO, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has reiterated that the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 saved the country’s economy from imminent collapse due to mismanagement and unbridled corruption. The Minister made the remarks in Kano Friday during a courtesy visit to Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, shortly […]
Manchester United has officially confirmed Jose Mourinho as its new Manager. The former Chelsea Manager replaced Dutchman Louis van Van Gaal, who was dismissed Monday despite winning the FA Cup two days earlier. Speaking at the official confirmation, Man U Executive Vice-Chairman Ed Woodward said “Jose is quite simply the best manager in the game today”. […]
DELTA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Again, the Niger Delta Avengers have attacked another oil facilities belonging to the Pipelines and Product Marketing Company (PPMC) and Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NNPC) in Warri, Delta State, South South Nigeria. The attack, according to the residents occurred late Thursday around Batan community in Warri South West Local Government […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Olympic Chiefs have announced that 23 athletes from five different sports and six different countries, at the London 2012 Games have failed retrospective doping tests. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) recently retested 454 selected doping samples from the 2008 Games in Beijing and another 250 from London 2012. It said the retests, which […]
ABUJA, 27 MAY 2016-The theme of this year’s Children’s Day, “Protect the rights of the child in the face of violence and insecurity: End child marriage” helps to shed a much needed light on the unprecedented levels of violence against children in Nigeria in the recent past and present. In the North East, we have witnessed, […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The first world President, Barack Obama has broken the record of becoming the first serving US President to visit Hiroshima since the World War II nuclear attack. No fewer than 140,000 were killed in Hiroshima and another 74,000 two days later in a second bombing in Nagasaki, on August 6, 1945. […]
Zimbabwe has freed 2,000 inmates as the country’s prison system struggles with massive overcrowding and food shortages. The notice of the pardon was announced earlier this week by President Robert Mugabe. It was extended to all male prisoners under the age of 18 and all female inmates, with the exception of two serving life sentences. […]
Search teams looking for the flight recorders of the EgyptAir plane have picked up a radio signal from an emergency locator transmitter, Egyptian investigators say. This could help to narrow the search area for the “black boxes” to a 5km (3 mile) radius in the Mediterranean Sea. A deep-water operation will start in the coming […]
