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Saturday, August 17th, 2019
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bayelsa State Government on Friday said it has completely defrayed the N104 billion bond loan inherited from the Timipre Sylva administration. The state Commissioner for Finance, Mr. Maxwell Ebibai disclosed this during the monthly transparency briefing for the Months of June and July, 2019 in Yenagoa. Mr. Ebibai explained that the state […]
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Saturday, August 17th, 2019
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu state police command has arrested 30 criminal suspects out of which four were among the notorious gangs that killed two catholic priests Rev Fr. Paul Offu and Rev. Fr. Clement Ugwu in cold blood in Enugu. Parading them before newsmen at the state Police headquarters in […]
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Friday, August 16th, 2019
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Governor of Zamfara, Abdulaziz Yari has prayed the Federal High Court Abuja, to direct the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to unseal his property located at Maitama, Abuja. Yari, in an exparte motion brought by his Counsel, Mahmud Magaji, SAN, said the EFCC sealed the property contrary to the provision […]
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Thursday, August 15th, 2019
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ekiti state government has shut down five illegal hospitals in the state for operating without approval and a license. The Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Dr Mojisola Yaya-Kolade, announced the closure during an unscheduled visit of the Medical Anti Quackery Committee set up by the state government to the hospitals. […]
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Wednesday, August 14th, 2019
Ignatius Okpara, Enugu Nigeria (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Outspoken spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry Enugu, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka has denied ever saying that God is angry with Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhahi and his administration. Just recently, there was a viral social media report quoting the Catholic priest, (Fr. Mbaka) of prophesying doom in Aso Rock […]
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Tuesday, August 6th, 2019
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Worried by the recent alarming spate of insecurity in the state, the Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi led government in Enugu State on Monday rose from a crucial meeting with Vigilante/Nieghbourhood Watch groups in the 17 local government areas of the state and sent an Anti-kidnapping Bill to the state assembly. A […]
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Sunday, August 4th, 2019
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The south – East chapter of Christian Association of Nigeria CAN, has condemned in its entirety the recent gruesome murder of the parish priest of St. James The Greater Parish, Ugbawka in Nkanu East council Area of Enugu state, Rev. Fr. Paul Offu by unknown gunmen. A statement issued on Sunday in Enugu […]
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Sunday, August 4th, 2019
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Director-General of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mr. Mustapha Maihaja, has warned staff of the agency against truancy and all forms of indiscipline, saying they must rededicate themselves towards rendering quality service delivery to the nation and humanity. Maihaja, who said the organization has zero tolerance for indiscipline stated this […]
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Thursday, August 1st, 2019
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gunmen raided a female hostel in the Town Campus of the University of Uyo late on Wednesday, dispossessing students of money and other valuables. The incident, which occurred at W6 Hostel on the campus, is coming few days after some female students were attacked by bandits in one of the hostels. The […]
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Tuesday, July 30th, 2019
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON), on Tuesday confirmed the death of five Nigerian pilgrims in Saudi Arabia. Dr Ibrahim Kana, Chairman, National Medical Team, released the figure Tuesday in Madinah from the commission’s National Medical Team Electronic Health Medical Records. “So far, Nigeria has lost five pilgrims including three females […]
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Monday, July 29th, 2019
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ex-governor of Enugu State, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani, has challenged Nigerian women of Igbo extraction to be enterprising both in business and in politics. Nnamani, who is the incumbent Senator representing Enugu East senatorial district at the upper chamber of Nigeria’s National Assembly (NASS) made the call weekend in a keynote […]
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Sunday, July 28th, 2019
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The South- East governors forum has maintained its earlier decision that it has no land for the suspended federal government’s RUGA programme in the south east geopolitical zone. It said it has reviewed the present security situation in the zone and “in response to the emerging security challenges decided to […]
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Friday, July 26th, 2019
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Bayelsa State Governor, the Honorable Henry Seriake Dickson, has restated his earlier position that the leadership of the People’s Democratic Party has not endorsed any aspirant for the candidature of the party. A statement by the Special Adviser, Media Relations, Mr. Fidelis Soriwei, quoted the governor as having called on Bayelsans […]
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Wednesday, July 24th, 2019
From Ignatius Okpara, Awka (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Quick intervention by the Anambra state Commissioner of police (CP) John Abang has prevented members of the National Association of Nigeria Students (NANS) to shut down the office of the mobile telecommunication giant, MTN in Awka . African Examiner gathered that students had planned to revenge the killing of Nigerians in South […]
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Wednesday, July 24th, 2019
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Delta All Progressives Congress, APC, Chieftain, Olorogun Ima Niboro, has said that the Delta State ministerial nominee, Barr. Festus Keyamo, SAN, could be the much-desired elixir to bond the different factions of the APC in the state. While congratulating Keyamo as well as Chief Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, on their appointments as ministers, […]
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Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The immediate past Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development and a frontline All Progressive Congress (APC) gubernatorial aspirant in Bayelsa State, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, has congratulated Chief Timipre Sylva over his ministerial nomination to represent Bayelsa State in the Federal Execution Council. Lokpobiri in a personal message to Sylva immediately […]
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Wednesday, July 17th, 2019
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu State Command of the Nigerian prisons Service (NPS), has identified lack of operational vehicles to convey awaiting trial inmates to court as well as overcrowding of prisons as some of the key challenges constituting serious cog in the wheel of progress of the organization in the […]
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Monday, July 15th, 2019
By Prof. R. A. Ipinyomi (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Recent survey shows that Christians in Nigeria remain the most persecuted religious group. This persecution takes many forms. Persecution can be defined as any hostility experienced as a result of identification with Jesus Christ. It could be emotional torture and disowning of believers by their husbands, parents or […]
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Monday, July 15th, 2019
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Zamfara Government has confirmed the kidnap of its Director of Budget, Alhaji Hamza Salihu. The confirmation was made in a statement by Yusuf Idris, the Director-General, Press Affairs to Gov. Bello Matawalle, in Gusau on Monday. “Zamfara State Governor, Dr Bello Matawallen, has described as terrible and disturbing, Sunday afternoon abduction […]
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Monday, July 15th, 2019
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The founding father of crisis-ridden, All progressive Grand Alliance APGA, Chief Chekwas Okorie, has declared that the protracted crisis rocking the opposition party is spiritual, arising from grave injustice, malicious propaganda and avarice. He said: “those who are culpable of this iniquity together with their beneficiaries shall have their days with […]
