By Nwamara Chekube – In an apparent twist of fate, the traditional rulers of Isiala Ngwa South Abia State have withdrawn their royal blessings, honour and support which they gave to the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) guber candidate in the state, Dr. Alex Otti, mid last year. They said that the royal blessings and […]
Kwara State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed has said that the use of card readers during the forthcoming general elections will guarantee credible elections as incidents of electoral malpractices will be checked. Governor Ahmed stated this when members of Theatre Arts and Motion Pictures Producers Association (TAMPPA) paid him a solidarity visit at the Government House, Ilorin. […]
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Owerri – Angry mob has beaten to death a woman alleged to have stolen a baby in Owerri, the Imo state capital. Before she gave up the ghost, the mob had stripped her naked. African Examiner gathered that Nemesis caught up with the victim, simply identified as Chioma, while trying to steal […]
No fewer than 50,000 members of the Labour Party (LP) in Kwara State have defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as the party’s campaign train stopped at Offa in Kwara State on Tuesday. The visibly-excited defectors were received into the APC by a national leader and senator representing Kwara Central senatorial district at […]
From Agabus Pwanagba, Jos – With less than two weeks to the Presidential and National Assembly elections, Plateau State Governor and flagbearer of the PDP for Plateau North Senatorial District, Jonah Jang has berated the opposition All Progressives Congress, (APC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) for insisting on the use of Permanent Voters’ […]
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Abakaliki – Disturbed by the high rate of political violence that has continued to characterised parts of Nigeria, ahead of the forthcoming general polls, the National Emergency Management Agency NEMA on Wednesday staged a one day election Non- violence awareness and sensitization workshop in Ebonyi, believed to be one of the volatile […]
Audu Limun, Bauchi – Federal High Court in Bauchi presided over by Justice Ibrahim Auta, has fixed March 23, 2015, to rule on whether the court has the jurisdiction to entertain the suit filed by former Governor Murtala Nyako against Adamawa State House of Assembly and 7-man panel of investigation. Justice Auta ordered Olukoya Ogungbeje, […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu – Residents of Enugu were Monday night thrown into fear following the news of a heavy explosion, at Amokwe, in Udi council Area of the State. Initially, it was difficult to establish the possible cause of the explosion and the exact location, a development that threw residents of Enugu and their […]
By Ayo Balogun – Lagos – The monthly environmental sanitation exercise in Lagos, Monday suffered a setback as a Federal High Court in the State, ruled that the restriction of movement that goes with the exercise is an infringement on the right of the residents. While delivering his judgment, Justice Mohammed Idris, held that the […]
Women and children are among dozens of people killed in a dawn raid on a village in central Nigeria. Police say 45 people died in the attack by unidentified gunman on Egba village in in Benue state. But local politician Audu Sule told the BBC 81 villagers had been killed by the attackers, who were […]
The National Planning Commission has scored Delta State high in capturing the objectives of the State Employment and Expenditure for Result Project. The commission was elated that within two years the state had generated close to 6,000 jobs to beat counterpart states in the South South zone, including Bayelsa, Edo and Rivers. SEEFOR, an initiative […]
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu – Three persons were on saturday killed in a fatal motor accident that occurred along the Enugu Abakaliki road, just as five assorted vehicles,a restaurant, and other valuables worth several millions of naira, were also consumed in an inferno that gutted the Nsukka merchanic village in Enugu state same day. The […]
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Abakaliki – A mysterious fire which gutted about 68 rooms in Abakaliki, Ebonyi state, has sent a 20- year old girl, identified as Mercy Elom, to her untimely grave, hours after she sat for this year’s JAMB examination. The fire also destroyed properties valued at several millions. The deceased, our Correspondent gathered […]
Dr. Dakuku Peterside, governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Rivers State has vowed to defend the independence of the judiciary. He also promised to provide effective justice administration system in Rivers State. He made the pledge in Port Harcourt at a one-day interactive session with members of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA […]
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Yenagoa – The Federal Government College, Imiringi in Ogbia council Area of president Goodluck Jonathan’s home state, of Bayelsa, has been shut down, following an outbreak of cholera in the school. African Examiner gathered that already, no fewer than eleven students of the school have been hospitalised at the Federal Medical Centre […]
Ayo Balogun – Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola has vowed that the armed robbers who raided a bank in Lekki area of the State on Wednesday will be apprehended. Three policemen and a girl were gunned down by robbers on Wednesday as they robbed the First City Monument Bank and carted away huge sums of […]
A non partisan group, Imo Development Union(IDU) has faulted the projects being executed by the state Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, describing it as cosmetic projects which cannot stand the test of time. The group in a statement signed by its President, Mr. John Okpara and made available to reporters in Akure, said the people of […]
By Niyi Adeyi – Lagos – At least, two persons were killed and other properties were destroyed, in an early morning fire outbreak that razed popular Mile 12 Market, in the Kosefe Local Government area of Lagos State. Director of the State Fire Service, Mr. Rasak Fadipe linked the cause of the inferno which started […]
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu – The South east chapter of the opposition All progress Congress, APC, has frowned at the recent call for a one party state, by the professor Nwabueze led Project Nigeria Movement. Briefing members of the party on its forthcoming South East Zonal Rally, scheduled to take place at the Nnamdi Azikiwe […]
The Greater Together Campaign Organisation, GTCO, has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to as a matter of urgency, call the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Ezebuwon Nyesom Wike, and the armed wing of the party in Rivers State, Grassroot(sic) Development Initiative, GDI, to order before they set the entire state ablaze. […]
