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Thursday, February 26th, 2015
By Tom Garba, Yola – President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday sneaked into Yola unannounced and proceeded to Mubi where he met soldiers of 155 special Task Force battalion and paid courtesy call on the Emir of Mubi, Alhaji Abubakar Isa. The president who landed in Yola International Airport around 11 am amidst tight security boarded […]
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Wednesday, February 25th, 2015
From Abdul Gafar Bello – The screening of President Jonathan’s new eight Ministerial nominees suffered a setback Wednesday at the senate as the exercise was cancelled allegedly due to petitions against a Lagos State nominee, Musiliu Obanikoro. The screening exercise has been shifted till next week Tuesday. Addressing journalists after the postponement, opposition All Progressives […]
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Wednesday, February 25th, 2015
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Yenagoa – No fewer than Thirteen suspected oil thieves have been nabbed by the Bayelsa State Command of the Nigerian Navy, just as a vessel carrying stolen crude oil was intercepted by same security operatives. According to the command, the vessel conveying the stolen crude oil identified as “MT REDEMPTION was intercepted […]
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2015
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Abakaliki – The crisis-ridden EBonyi state House of Assembly complex was on Tuesday gutted by a mysterious fire which damaged two key departments. African Examiner gathered that the inferno, which started at about 1.47a.m. affected the Account and Supply departments as well as office of the Deputy Speaker of the Assembly. The […]
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2015
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu – A Federal High Court sitting in Enugu has awarded the sum of 500, 000 against the Enugu State Waste Management Authority (ESWAMA) over human Rights abuse of a female Enugu resident. The presiding judge, Justice D.V. Agishi, had in her verdict on Tuesday, found ESWAMA liable of torture, humiliation, dehumanization and […]
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2015
From Mustapha Abdul Salaam – The raging suicide bombing in Yobe, North Eastern Nigeria, continued Tuesday, as no fewer than 15 people including the bomber, perished at a Potiskum’s Motor park fresh attack. AFRICAN EXAMINER Correspondent in Damaturu, the State capital, gathered that the explosion occurred around 11.00 am, after a male suicide bomber boarded […]
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Monday, February 23rd, 2015
Less than 24 hours Mr. Freddy Ndigbara, an aide to governor Rotimi Ameachi, of Rivers state was kidnapped by gunmen,a Paramount ruler in Ikeinghenbiri Kingdom of Bayelsa State, Chief Collins Adikoko has also been abducted by unidentified gunmen. The monarch, was kidnapped by gunmen who wore uniform of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, […]
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Monday, February 23rd, 2015
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu – The Biafra Zionists Federation, BZF, has urged Ndigbo to boycott the forthcoming general polls scheduled for March 28 and April 11, 2015, following the continued detention of its leader, Barrister Benjamin Onwuka, and some other of their members by the federal government. According to the organisation, its call became necessary […]
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Saturday, February 21st, 2015
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu – As Commercial sex business continues to boom in Enugu, the coal city, following increasing number of hotels and eatery joints in the area, some students of various tertiary institutions in the state have joined the unholy trade, as they now littered their sexy pictures in most of the hotels. Such […]
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Saturday, February 21st, 2015
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu – Dozens of Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) were on Friday evening found in a refuse dumpster inside the Enugu East local government secretariat at Nkwo Nike. African Examiner reports that the council area is situated, in a suburb of Enugu metropolis. The items were first seen by some concerned Nigerians who […]
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Friday, February 20th, 2015
Some inmates of the Calabar Prison, the Cross River State capital, South Southern Nigeria, Friday forcefully gained entrance into the Prison’s armory, in a bid to regain their freedom after a gun battle between them and armed security guards. The gun exchanges occasioned commotion in areas such as Afokang, Iman and Jebbs on Calabar South […]
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Thursday, February 19th, 2015
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – The APC Presidential Campaign Organisation (APCPCO) says it has evidence that a top management staff of the Nigerian Maritime Administration & Safety Agency (NIMASA) is behind the dirty campaigns of hate against the presidential candidate of APC, General Muhammadu Buhari and his family aired in the recent documentary by AIT and […]
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Thursday, February 19th, 2015
Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun has called on officers of the Nigeria Police Force and other security agencies in the country to eschew all forms of injustice and carry out their duties professionally during the forthcoming elections. Amosun, while receiving the newly redeployed Commissioner for Police to the state, Mr. Valentine Ntomchukwu in his […]
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Thursday, February 19th, 2015
The crisis rocking the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Bayelsa State chapter deepened on Thursday following the decision of the state party leaders to send a protest letter to President Goodluck Jonathan demanding immediate removal of their Chairman, Col. Sam Inokoba (retd). It was gathered that the decision to formally lodge complaints to […]
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Thursday, February 19th, 2015
Thirty cars and a bus were given out to youths from Ikwuano Local Government Area free of charge as part of the on-going youth empowerment programme of the Chief Theodore Orji’s administration. Speaking before handing over the vehicles to the beneficiaries at the Ikwuano LGA headquarters, Governor Theodore Orji noted that some people from the […]
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Thursday, February 19th, 2015
Agabus Pwanagba, Jos – The Plateau State Police Command has confirmed the killing of the Deputy Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) of Sop Ward, Mr. Solomon Mwadvyang in Riyom Local Government Area, of the State. The gunmen also inflicted injuries on the deceased daughter, Emmanuela. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Abuh Emmanuel, […]
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2015
The National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has lamented the non-collection of the Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) by Lagosians. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disclosed that only 62 percent of Lagosians have collected their PVCs so far. At an emergency party stakeholders meeting at the APC Lagos secretariat […]
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2015
Lagos State has thrown away international plea that it should expunge death sentence from its criminal law as the government insists on retaining it in the law to serve as deterrent to murders and armed robbers. The international communities have been advocating the abrogation of death sentence from nation’s criminal system and have been mounting […]
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2015
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu – As part of its humanitarian services, a non governmental organization, NGO South Sahara Social Development (SSSD) Tuesday put smile on the faces of over 1000 in the streets of Enugu as it provided them assorted food for their meals. The exercise, according to the organization is aimed at touching human […]
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2015
Agabus Pwanagba, Jos – Ahead of the 2015 general elections and in its efforts to rid the nation of illegal immigrants, the Nigeria Immigration Service in Adamawa State said it has arrested 280 illegal aliens in the State. The State Comptroller of the Service, Ubi Ikpi, while parading the suspects in Yola, Wednesday, said the […]
