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Thursday, April 21st, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The acrimony between Bayelsa State government and multinational oil companies deepened on Thursday with Governor Henry Seriake Dickson, seeking the intervention of the Presidency over tax evasion, flagrant disregard to laws and non-compliance with the rules and regulations of the country. Among the oil companies identified as major culprits in […]
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Thursday, April 21st, 2016
By Ayo Balogun Following the forceful access last Friday into the premises of the schools, by contractor of the self-acclaimed vendor (Jotito Company), members of the Keke Senior High School, Ifako Ijaiye, Lagos State Parent Forum, Thursday marched to the State Secretariat, Alausa Ikeja, to protest against encroachment of their children’s school land. The parents […]
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Wednesday, April 20th, 2016
IGNATIUS OKPARA, ENUGU BALTIMORE, MD, AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The hammer of the National University Commission (NUC) has fallen on the Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT) over the institution’s alleged Unlawful Sack of about 153 lecturers. AFRICAN EXAMINER gathered that the affected lecturers were sacked by ESUT management shortly after using them to […]
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Tuesday, April 19th, 2016
By Ignatius Okpara, Benin City The Edo state House of Assembly on Monday announced the sack of 17 out of the 18 Council Chairmen in the State. Following the development, the House directed Heads of local government personnel management HPMs to take over the administration of the respective council areas, ahead of April 21, this […]
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Monday, April 18th, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Bayelsa State government has sealed the premises of Gbaran Ubie Integrated Oil and Gas facility, a property of the Shell Petroleum Company of Nigeria Ltd. A statement issued on Monday by the Executive Secretary of Bayelsa State Physical Planning and Development Board, Chief Boro Ige-Edaba, said the sealing of the company located in Gbarantoru in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, followed an eviction order issued by […]
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Monday, April 18th, 2016
The controversy on the letter written by Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose to the People Chinese Republic authority on the $6 Billion loan to Nigeria has not abated. Reacting to attack on him by the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun and former State Governor, Engr. Segun Oni, the […]
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Wednesday, April 13th, 2016
By Ayo Balogun The Lagos State Government has granted amnesty to a total of 153 inmates of Kirikiri Maximum and Medium prisons, still awaiting trial. Chief Judge of the State, Justice Oluwafunmilayo Atilade who ordered the release Wednesday, during her visit to the prisons, pointed out that among the pardoned were 79 being tried for […]
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Sunday, April 10th, 2016
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu Over 2,000 members of the peoples Democratic party PDP and other political parties defected to the ruling All Progressive Congress APC in Isi- Uzo council area of Enugu state. Apart from the defectors, the party also officially admitted over 500 new members into its fold, including a retired Deputy Controller- General […]
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Sunday, April 10th, 2016
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Asaba BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Suspected Fulani herdsmen have shot dead a staff of the Delta State University, (DELSU) Abraka, and a farmer at their farms in a cold blood at Abraka, the member representing Ethiope East constituency in the State House of Assembly, Hon. Evans Iwhurie, disclosed weekend. The state […]
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu State House of Assembly Tuesday approved a N30 billion naira loan request for the executive to facilitate various ongoing developmental projects in parts of the state. All the 23 members of the House present during its plenary sitting, including the Speaker, Edward Ubosi supported the motion approving the […]
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Tuesday, April 5th, 2016
By Ignatius Okpara, Enugu The Enugu State Police Command on Tuesday paraded over 20 armed robbery suspects, including two members of a notorious syndicate which specializes in tricycle snatching in the State and its environs. Two among the suspects were alleged to be among those who killed some tricycle operators whose decomposing bodies were found […]
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Tuesday, April 5th, 2016
The Bayelsa State Elections Petition Tribunal sitting in Nyanya, Abuja has granted the prayers of Governor Seriake Dickson of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to inspect the election materials used to conduct the January 9Guber election in Brass local government area. The election in Brass, the only local government won by the All Progressives Congress, […]
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Tuesday, April 5th, 2016
Bauchi State is one of the states that is to benefit from the United States of America reconstruction and rehabilitation programme in the northeast region of Nigeria following the seven year insurgency that ravaged and crippled the socioeconomic activities of the northeast region and other parts of the country as well as other countries neighbouring […]
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Monday, April 4th, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The suspension of a former governor of Bayelsa State by the All Progressives Congress has taken a new twist as investigations reveal that he has fallen apart with the Minister of State for Agriculture, Heineken Lokpobiri over N600 million ministerial appointment deal A political movement in the Bayelsa State Chapter […]
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Thursday, March 31st, 2016
YENAGOA, BAYELSA STATE (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Bayelsa State Governor, Henry Seriake Dickson, said verification exercise carried out on workers has started yielding the desired results. According to him, preliminary reports turned in by the state verification team have identified some loopholes through which payroll criminals defrauded the state. He therefore expressed optimism that the […]
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Thursday, March 31st, 2016
Unknown gunmen killed one person in the early hours of Thursday in Buguma, the headquarters of Asari Toru local government of Rivers State. The Caretaker Committee Chairman of the local Council, Sobomabo Jackrich confirmed the ugly incident and gave the name of the deceased as Godknows also called Babadiba. Jackrich claimed the Police had stepped […]
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Tuesday, March 29th, 2016
By Ayo Balogun The Coalition of Ibile Professionals has defended the choice of Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, as co-chair of the Lagos at 50th year Celebration Committee. According to a statement released Tuesday by its General Secretary, Alhaji Wasiu Hassan, the group described members of Eko Foundation as rabble-rousers and noise makers seeking cheap […]
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Monday, March 28th, 2016
By Ignatius Okpara, Enugu As part of strategy to checkmate ghost workers, in its public service, the Enugu state Government, has directed the immediate biometric capturing of her entire workforce and pensioners using Bank Verification Number (BVN). Commissioner in charge of Ministry of Information, Dr. Godwin Udeuhele, who made this known to newsmen weekend in […]
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Saturday, March 26th, 2016
Text of a Press Release by Civil Society Organizations on the Rivers Re-Run Election The outcome of the March 19, 2016 Rivers rerun election is yet another sore point in our national journey to a free, fair and credible electoral process. While the Electoral Management Body was busy making preparations for a credible election, the […]
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Friday, March 25th, 2016
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Umuahia The Abia state police Command have arrested a gang of students armed robbery suspects, involving a student of Federal Polytechnic Nekede, Imo state, and a graduate of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike (MOUAU), Abia state. According to the police,”Uzoukwu Chukwudi, a 21-year-old male student of the Federal Polytechnic, Nekede, […]
