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Monday, May 8th, 2017
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 […]
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Sunday, May 7th, 2017
(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 […]
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Sunday, May 7th, 2017
* Budgetary Increase Fallout of Presidential Parley with oil Producing Communities (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – In sustenance of the new understanding between the Federal Government and the oil-producing communities of the Niger Delta, the President Muhammadu Buhari has released additional N35B to step-up the Amnesty Programme in the region. Although the FG had approved a N20B […]
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Saturday, May 6th, 2017
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered that the Maritime University in Okerenkoko, Delta state, should take-off in October. The establishment of the university is one of the demands of Niger Delta militants to embrace peace. Governor Ifanyi Okowa of Delta told State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential […]
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Friday, May 5th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has demanded the immediate resignation of the State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, for constituting himself a nuisance and for belittling the high office that he occupies. The party made the demand in a statement issued on Friday in Port Harcourt, in which […]
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Thursday, May 4th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Institute of Change Management International (ICMI) has flagged off an initiative aimed at building change management capacity across all sectors through the development of the change management competences in the country. According to a statement by Mr. Joseph Anetor, the Institute which is registered by the Corporate Affairs Commission and approved […]
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Wednesday, May 3rd, 2017
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Owerri The Imo State police Command says it has commenced withdrawing its men illegally attached to politicians in the state. Mr Chris Ezike, the state Commissioner of police who disclosed this to newsmen in Owerri after an interactive session with the leadership of the state House of Assembly explained that the idea […]
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Monday, May 1st, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – This year’s Workers’ day rally did not hold in Osun South West Nigeria as the State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) shelved the exercise in honour of the first Executive Governor Late Senator Isiaka Adeleke. Adeleke died at age 62, last week Sunday in Osogbo, the Osun State capital allegedly […]
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Monday, May 1st, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An inquest into the death of Osun State’s first civilian governor, Alhaji Isiaka Adeleke, has been announced. A “special statement” by the state government said the move became imperative to put the record straight, following the disruption of the burial arrangements by some “miscreants masquerading as mourners”. The statement alleged that the […]
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Monday, May 1st, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As workers in Bayelsa State join their counterparts around the world to celebrate the 2017 International Workers Day, often referred to as May Day, Governor Seriake Dickson has restated his administration’s desire to improve on their welfare. This he says is key in order to encourage them to be more productive and […]
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Saturday, April 29th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Dave Nweze Umahi, of Ebonyi state, South-east Nigeria has declared May 2nd and 3rd as public holidays so as to enable residents in the state participate in the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR).exercise recently announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. He made this known in Abakaliki the Ebonyi state capital […]
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Thursday, April 27th, 2017
LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A part of building still under construction in Lekki, Lagos Island has collapsed. It was learnt that some of the people around the building when it came down sustained injuries. Meanwhile, the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) has confirmed the incident as well as the “casualties” involved. LASEMA also […]
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Wednesday, April 26th, 2017
By Ayo Balogun, Abuja (AFRICAN EXAMINER) -Following his refusal to pay his debts and failure to honour a loan obligation, a Federal court in Uyo recently ordered that the incumbent Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Corporation (NDDC) Nsima Ekere forfeited all monies in his bank accounts and a plot of land located at […]
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Tuesday, April 25th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The embattled Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir David Lawal, on Tuesday appeared before the the three-man investigative panel headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. Recall that the panel was set up to investigate allegations of fraud against Lawal in the award of contracts under the Presidential Initiative on […]
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Tuesday, April 25th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday admitted the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, to bail on health grounds. Kanu was arrested on October 15, 2015 in Lagos and charged with treason and terrorism. In a brief ruling, Justice Binta Nyako, said that she was convinced that […]
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Monday, April 24th, 2017
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, ENUGU (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu state chapter of the opposition people’s Democratic party PDP, Sunday suffered yet another major blow, as one of its founding fathers and former national secretary of the party, chief Rex Onyeabor, decamped to the ruling All progressive congress, APC, alongside over 20,000 (twenty thousand) of his supporters. […]
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Monday, April 24th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bayelsa State Governor, Henry Seriake Dickson is to proceed on a working visit to the United States of America. A Government House statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Daniel Iworiso-Markson says, while in the United States, Governor Dickson will attend the Sub-sea Nations and Africa Oil and Gas […]
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Monday, April 24th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A pro democracy group, Coalition in Defence of Nigerian Democracy and Constitution (CDNDC), has called on Nigerians to urgently “rise up” and rescue President Muhammadu Buhari from the captivity of cabals, fearing the hijack of state’s affairs by “influence peddlers.” The coalition is also demanding the immediate release of all political rights […]
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Sunday, April 23rd, 2017
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the Director General (DG) of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside, on his election as the next Chairman of the Association of African Maritime Administration (AAMA). Peterside was elected last Friday at the end of the just concluded 3rd Annual […]
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Friday, April 21st, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has nominated Prof. James Momoh for the position of Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC). The President’s nominee to the Senate for confirmation is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; and Director of Energy Services and Controls at Howard University, United States of America. Prof. […]
