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Thursday, December 4th, 2014
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu Two-time gubernatorial candidate in Enugu state, Barr Okey Ezea on Thursday clinched the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship ticket for the 2015 election in the state. The businessman turned politician, who emerged unopposed at the party primaries held at the APC secretariat in Enugu, the Enugu state capital, had contested for […]
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Thursday, December 4th, 2014
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Umuahia Seventeen incumbent members of the Abia State House of Assembly failed to clinch their return tickets at the primaries of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. African Examiner gathered that out of the 24 members of the state legislature, only seven of the incumbents won their primaries. The Abia state PDP Chairman, […]
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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014
From Mustapha Abdul Salaam Less than the previously announced 24 hours of the dusk to dawn curfew in Damaturu and its environs, Yobe State Government has announced the review of the curfew. The Special Adviser to the Governor on Press Affairs and Information, Abdullahi Bego dropped this hint in a press statement late Tuesday. He […]
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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu Justice Innocent Umezulike, the chief judge of Enugu state has inaugurated a 7-man impeachment panel to investigate the alleged misappropriation and embezzlement of local government funds by the Chairman of Igbo-Eze North council area, Mr. Bonaventure Onu. Mr Onu is under investigation for mismanaging a total sum of N1.7 billion naira belonging […]
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Abakaliki A Federal High Court sitting in Abakaliki on Tuesday sacked all the 13 local government chairmen, vice Chairmen and Councilors elected during last year’s council polls in the state. In a judgment delivered on the suit filled by one of the candidates in the election, Mr Alieze Nweka of Ohaukwu council Area the court […]
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014
Abia State government says it is committed to the security and welfare of National Youth Service corps (NYSC) members deployed to the state. Governor Theodore Orji stated this at the Government House, Umuahia, when he received in audience the Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps Scheme (NYSC), Brig-Gen Johnson Bamidele Olawumi, who paid him […]
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Monday, December 1st, 2014
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Awka As part of measure to reduce road crashes on the highways in Anambra, the State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano has prohibited the selling of alcoholic drinks in all the motor parks across the State. The Governor, stated this Monday through the Commissioner for Transport, Barr. Chuma Mbonu, while declaring open the […]
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Monday, December 1st, 2014
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Umuahia Abia state Governor, Chief Theodore Orji, has approved 20 per cent across board reduction in the school fees of students of Abia State University, (ABSU) Uturu. A statement signed by Secretary to the state Government SSG, Professor Mkpa Agu, Mkpa, on Monday, said the gesture is aimed at boosting education in the […]
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Sunday, November 30th, 2014
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu The South-East Governors’ Forum (SEGF) has condemned in its entirety the recent killing of scores of innocent citizens in Kano by suspected members of the Islamic sect, Boko Haram. It condoled with families of victims of the attack as well as people and government of Kano state. Chairman, of the forum, […]
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Sunday, November 30th, 2014
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu The entire Nsukka community in Enugu state was on Saturday thrown into pandemonium as unknown gunmen abducted President General of the Town Union, Chief Augustine Alumona. Our correspondent gathered that the middle age man was kidnapped to an unknown destination along the newly constructed Opi-Ugwuogo Nike road. A source said that a […]
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Saturday, November 29th, 2014
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Owerri The Imo state government has dismissed rumour making the rounds in some quarters that the recent collapse of the state multi-million naira Film Academy in Owerri, was as a result of sub standard material used in the construction of the edifice. Our correspondent reports that the building, located along Egbu Road Owerri, […]
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Friday, November 28th, 2014
Agabus Pwanagba, Jos As the battle for the governorship of Plateau State continues to gather momentum ahead of the 2015 polls, a group under the aegis of Equity and Justice Forum, has called on the National Leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party to dissolve the State Exco of the party, for what it describe as […]
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Friday, November 28th, 2014
From Ignatius Okpara Police in Rivers State have apprehended a final year student of Rivers State University of Science and Technology, RSUST, while undergoing cult initiation. The initiation exercise, the police said, was taking place in a nearby bush close to the back gate of the university before the security operative swooped on them. A […]
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Thursday, November 27th, 2014
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu Less than one week after a fatal road crash which claimed the lives of over 15 persons along the Enugu Onitsha old road, another fatal road accident occurred Wednesday in Abia State South Eastern Nigeria, leaving seven persons dead, while several others sustained injuries. The accident, which involved a Hiace commercial […]
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Thursday, November 27th, 2014
Bayelsa State Governor, Hon Seriake Dickson on Wednesday presented cheques worth N16.7 million to scholars studying Izon language under the pilot programme for the teaching and learning of the Ijaw language, just as he declared N2.2 billion as total funds available for spending at the end of October 2014. Making the presentation at the Monthly […]
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Wednesday, November 26th, 2014
By Eric Ojo The Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Mike Okiro has reiterated the need for a system of revenue collection in Nigeria that guarantees the highest degree of public confidence in government’s integrity, efficiency and fairness. The Chairman said such a system must also comply with current statutory provisions and revenue generation […]
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Wednesday, November 26th, 2014
The Kwara State Government has lodged a formal complaint to the Commissioner of Police, Kwara State Command about some miscreants sponsored by some Peoples Democratic Party leaders in Kaiama Local Government Area who attacked Government Abdulfatah Ahmed’s convoy Tuesday this week. In a letter signed by the Senior Special Assistant Security Intelligence to the Executive […]
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Wednesday, November 26th, 2014
Agabus Pwanagba, Jos Men of the Military Special Task Force (STF) responsible for the maintenance of peace in Plateau State and the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), task force officials, Wednesday clashed over an attempt to seal off the Hill Station Hotel, in Jos, the State capital, by the tax enforcement team. AFRICAN EXAMINER gathered […]
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Wednesday, November 26th, 2014
The Abia state government has denied media reports that PDP Abia screening committee has disqualified Governor’s orji’s son from participating in the forthcoming state assembly election due to his membership of secret society. A statement issued by Mr Charles Ajunwa, Chief Press Secretary to Abia State Governor, declared that the publication was not only false […]
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Wednesday, November 26th, 2014
Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State has debunked rumours by mischief makers and political opponents that the All Progressives Congress (APC) is an Islamic Party. Speaking during an interactive session with students at the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education (UOE) in Port Harcourt, Amaechi said the APC is not an Islamic Party and has no […]
