BAILTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Unresolved negotiation over the image right is dragging appointment of Jose Morinho as the new Manager Manchester United. The former Chelsea handler was expected to be announced as a replacement to the just sacked Coach Louis van Gaal, but no thanks to the ongoing stalemate talks between his agent Jorge […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja Worried by the uncertainties surrounding the state of the Nation’s economy with indices of imminent recession, the Senate has summoned the Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun and Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria ( CBN), Godwin Emefiele to brief it on Monetary and Fiscal Policies being adopted by them to salvage the […]
By Ayo Balogun LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode on Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MOU, with consortiums to build the 4th Mainland Bridge at a cost of N844 billion with three tow plazas. The bridge is being constructed under the Build, Own and Transfer (BOT), concession of 40 years […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Senate on Wednesday lamented the state of affairs of Local Government administration in the country principally caused by their indiscriminate dissolution and frequent replacement with caretaker committees by State Governors aside lack of financial autonomy. It bemoaned that the trend had always resulted in low morale and poor performance of the councils […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government of Nigeria has approved the appointment of the Chief Executives of six information-related parastatals under the Ministry of Information and Culture. The appointments were announced Wednesday in Abuja, by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed. The new Chief Executives are: Mr. Ishaq Modibo Kawu […]
By Charles Ibekwe The position of the Rational Choice Theory (RCT) of crime is that persons intentionally choose to commit crimes as opposed to being compelled by external factors or influences, and the reason that they choose to commit crime is that they think it will be more rewarding and less costly for them than […]
By Ayo Balogun, ABUJA Former Deputy Governor of Osun state,Senator Iyiola Omisore says the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was wrong to declare him wanted even as he denied any involvement in N700 million allegations against him. Reacting to the EFCC statement in which the agency declared him wanted in connection with “receiving and […]
…Says betrayal of Sheriff not a surprise Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, has been told to apologise and refund the N10 billion from the State coffers which he wasted on last Saturday’s inconclusive National Convention of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). The State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) made the demand in […]
LAGOS. NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode has unveiled the Oshodi regeneration project, which will see to the development of the Oshodi Transport Interchange at a cost of over N22.4 billion ($70 million). Ambode on Tuesday said the plan of his administration to transform Oshodi into a world class transport interchange […]
Oyewale Oyelola Kwara state government will on Friday, May 27, 2016 stage cultural exhibition to showcase cultural heritage of the state. Our correspondent gathered that the exhibition is initiative of SPecial Adviser on Culture and Tourism to Governor Abdulfatai Ahmed, Femi Adebayo. The event tagged ASA WAA will feature exhibition of cultural heritage and tourist […]
By Owei Lakemfa BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The hair-splitting over the teaching of Religious Studies and National Values in Primary and Secondary Schools, continue with the regulatory Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC) entering the fray. In a rather combative statement by its Executive Secretary, Prof. Ismail Junaidu, NERDC described most of the reports on […]
FirstBank’s Women Basketball Team – The Elephant Girls – has won the 2015/2016 Zenith Bank Women’s Basketball Championship for the seventh time. The tournament which dunked off on March 18, 2016 saw the Elephant Girls maintain a perfect start and take the lead in every game across the Federal Capital Territory, Asaba, and the finals […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Pan African banking group, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc has partnered Konga, Nigeria’s leading e-commerce company and Innovectives Nigeria Limited to create a seamless delivery and payment system by integrating mobile point of sale solution into Konga’s delivery system. Mobile POS (mPOS) which is powered by UBA PLC and MasterCard […]
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu Ten days after two junior secondary school students of the Federal Government College, Okposi, in Ohaozara council Area of Ebonyi State, were abducted by unknown persons, their decomposing bodies have been found in a local river in the area. AFRICAN EXAMINER recalled that the late students, Tochukwu Ene and Chukwuemeka […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared a former Deputy Governor of Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore wanted. Omisore according to a post on the agency’s Facebook account was declared wanted in connection with a case of “receiving and misappropriating the sum of over N700, 000,000.00 from the […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Mr. Tor Uja as the new Executive Secretary (ES) of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission (NCPC). The appointment which takes immediate effect was confirmed in a statement issued Tuesday, by an Assistant Director (Press) in the Office of the Secretary to the […]
By Seun Adebosin LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has declared the factional Caretaker Committee of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) illegal. Justice Ibrahim Buba ruled that the Committee constituted last Saturday, in the controversial non-elective National Convention of the party in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital […]
By Niyi Adeyi LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – After its remand application was granted, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has moved former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, to its Lagos office, Ikoyi for more investigations. The anti-graft agency had Monday approached Lagos Chief Magistrate, Mrs. Bola Osunsanmi, requesting her to grant an application […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government (FG) has constituted a 10- man Technical Committee to look into the “synergizing and harmonizing” the mode and procedure for prompt payment of pension benefits in the Public Service in Nigeria. Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HCSF), Mrs. Winifred Oyo-Ita announced this Tuesday in […]
YENAGOA, BAYELSA STATE (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The organised labour movement in Bayelsa State has suspended its three days old strike over unpaid salaries and pension arrears. A statement by Daniel Iworiso-Markson, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Henry Seriake Dickson, said the decision to shelve the industrial action was reached after a marathon meeting held on Monday which had in […]
