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Saturday, January 9th, 2016
By Collins Amadi BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, Mr. Opunabo Inko-Tariah, has defected joined the league of fresh defectors from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). In a statement issued Thursday, Inko-Tariah commended […]
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Saturday, January 9th, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A coalition of domestic observers and Civil society Organisations that were accredited to monitor the rerun election in Bayelsa State on Saturday expressed concern about some lapses noticed since Friday describing it as unhealthy. The coalition also confirmed reports that some collation officers from the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), have […]
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Friday, January 8th, 2016
*CSP Allegedly Aiding, Abetting Distribution of Materials Without Party Agents BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – All hell was let loose in Ekeremor today less than 24 hours to the rescheduled elections in certain constituencies in Bayelsa as suspected militants took over the community, unleashing barbaric violence on the former Speaker of the Bayelsa State House […]
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Thursday, January 7th, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – With less than 48 hours to the supplementary election in Southern Ijaw LGA, Mr. Beinmopre Jonah, brother of Bayelsa State Deputy governor, on Thursday escaped assassination by the whiskers, as thugs suspected to be working for the All Progressives Congress, (APC) invaded his residence in Ekeki, Yenagoa LGA, leaving him […]
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Thursday, January 7th, 2016
The Lagos State Government has terminated operations of the first BRT cooperative run by the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) from the Mile12 to CMS BRT corridor with immediate effect. The development is contained in a statement signed by the state’s Commissioner for Transportation, Dr. Dayo Mobereola, on Thursday in Lagos. According to […]
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Thursday, January 7th, 2016
Baltimore, MD (African Examiner) – Enugu state chapter of All Progressive Congress, APC has again distanced itself from recent press releases issued by her Publicity Secretary, Mrs. Kate Ofor on burning political issues in the state, saying she did not get the approval of the excos before issuing the statements. According to the party, a […]
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Thursday, January 7th, 2016
Baltimore, MD (African Examiner) – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Wednesday said that the success of Saturday’s supplementary polls in Bayelsa State would be determined by the Federal Government, security agencies and the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC). Even with the deployment of 5,000 policemen, stakeholders are still being skeptical as to the preparedness of […]
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Thursday, January 7th, 2016
Baltimore, MD (African Examiner) – With about three days to the supplementary election scheduled for Southern Ijaw and 101 units, Bayelsa State Governor, Henry Seriake Dickson, on Wednesday in Yenagoa, called on the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Timipre Sylva, to “accept defeat or be ready to be humiliated by the people as […]
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2016
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode Wednesday approved the appointment of Professor Olanrewaju Adigun Fagbohun as the 8th substantive Vice-Chancellor (VC) of the State University (LASU). The appointment was contained in a statement signed Wednesday by the State’s Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Steve Ayorinde. Ayorinde stated that following the expiration of the tenure […]
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2016
By Ayo Balogun Thirty-three years after it was established, Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State has turned the Lagos State University, (LASU), into a residential campus and approved 70 years retirement age for Professors of the institution. The Governor, on Tuesday signed into law the LASU (Amendment) Bill 2015, which converted the school to residential […]
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A civil society coalition, National Frontiers, has embarked on a sit out till Sunday January 10 2016 at the Unity Fountain, Abuja on the militarisation and manipulation of election in Nigeria with focus on the forthcoming governorship election in Southern Ijaw LGA of Bayelsa State. The National Coordinator of the coalition, Olufemi Lawson said on Tuesday that as […]
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Monday, January 4th, 2016
*Opens Hotlines, Website for Tracking Movement Of Election Materials With less than five days to the supplementary election scheduled for January 9 2016, Bayelsa State Governor, Henry Seriake Dickson on Monday in Yenagoa raised the alarm over plans by the All Progressives Congress (APC), to unleash violence on the people of Southern Ijaw LGA. The violence, according to him, was […]
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Monday, January 4th, 2016
Less than two weeks when similar disaster occurred in the town, another two gas stations Monday morning were touched by wild fire in Nnewi town, Anambra State, South East Nigeria. Eyewitness account told our reporter that the inferno which razed the petrol stations located on Amunko,Nnewi Okpuno Nnewichi area of the State was caused by […]
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Monday, January 4th, 2016
Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State has challenged the caretaker chairmen of the 13 local government areas in the state to remain committed to the provision of democracy dividends to the people at the grassroots. Umahi told the caretaker chairmen who paid him a New Year homage at his country home in Uburu,Ohaozara Local Government Area that they […]
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Monday, January 4th, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A civil rights organisation, Constitutional Rights and Peoples Development Advocacy Initiative, has asked the National Human Rights Commission, to investigate the alleged gross abuse of federal might by the All Progressives Congress (APC), during the inconclusive governorship election in bayelsa State. The CRPDAI in a petition filed by its Administrative Secretary, Emmanuel Christopher, […]
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Sunday, January 3rd, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ijaw People’s Assembly has accused multinational oil company, Agip of allegedly making its security platform available to the All Progressives Congress (APC) for diversion of election materials in the last governorship elections in Bayelsa State. The organisation which said the action of Agip undermined security of the state also […]
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Sunday, January 3rd, 2016
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu Enugu state police command has arrested a suspected petroleum pipeline vandal and owner/driver of the truck used in siphoning the product. The suspect, whose name was given as Okechukwu Okeke from Umuhu in Awgu council Area of the Government Area of Enugu state was nabbed by operatives of the Aninri Division […]
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Saturday, January 2nd, 2016
*As Ateke Tom, Sylva meet in Port Harcourt With about one week to the rescheduled election in Southern Ijaw Local Government, wife of the immediate past president, Dame Patience Jonathan and his political associates have struck a deal with the candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Timipre Sylva to stop the re-election of Governor Seriake Dickson […]
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Thursday, December 31st, 2015
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen Ruling is ongoing by an Appeal Court sitting in Abuja on the appeal filed before it by the Taraba State Governor, Darius Ishaku. Governor Ishaku is appealing against the ruling by the State’s Election Petition Tribunal delivered November 7, 2015, which upturned his victory and ordered his main challenger, Minister of Women […]
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2015
By Ignatius Okpara, Enugu BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A multi-billion naira National Youth Development Centre attracted by the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and located at Ngwo in Udi council Area of Enugu State has been razed down by mysterious fire. The centre is one of the five, sited in the five different local […]
