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Monday, May 15th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Aniocha-oshimili people of Delta state are set to draw up their own economic blueprint for the development of the area. To achieve this, a non-partisan and non-profit socio–cultural organisation known as Njiko Aniochaoshimili has been convened to organize an economic summit to draw up the area’s economic recovery roadmap. According to […]
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Monday, May 15th, 2017
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, ENUGU (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tragedy struck weekend along the Awka Oji River expressway in South-East Nigeria as a man identified as Mr. Paul Uzor, his wife, and their four year old girl were crushed to death by lorry. The Enugu state police public Relations officer PPRO, Ebere Amarizu , who disclosed this […]
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Friday, May 12th, 2017
From Ignatius Okpara, Benin (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Academic and social activities were on Thursday crippled at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) Edo state, South South Nigeria, as students of the institution staged a violent protest over the death of their colleague, a 300 level student whom they alleged died in the hospital as […]
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Thursday, May 11th, 2017
Photo caption: Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kano State House of Assembly has constituted an eight-man committee to investigate allegations levelled against the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II. The allegations raised against Emir Sanusi include spending funds that were not approved by the governor and the state assembly, attacking President Buhari’s […]
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Thursday, May 11th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Monday Igbuya has been impeached over allegation of incompetence and high handedness. Hon Sherriff Oborevwori was consequently elected as the new speaker. Twenty-two out of the 29 members signed the impeachment notice. Reports say the new Speaker, Rt Hon Sherriff Oborevwori, […]
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Wednesday, May 10th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, May 10, 2017, arraigned a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Bala A. Mohammed before Justice A. M. Talba of the Federal Capital Territory, High Court sitting in Gudu, Abuja, on a 6-count charge bordering on abuse of office, false declaration of […]
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Wednesday, May 10th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has condemned the Department of State Services (DSS) arrest and detention of the Managing Director of Capital Oil and Gas Limited, Ifeanyi Ubah, lamenting that “the DSS is becoming law unto itself and dragging Nigeria back to 1984 when Decree 2 was used by the National […]
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Tuesday, May 9th, 2017
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 […]
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Monday, May 8th, 2017
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 […]
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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 […]
