Two children have been burnt to death at Mafoluku area of Lagos, Nigeria, says the Director, Lagos State Fire Service, Rasak Fadipe. Fadipe says the two children, aged 2 each got burnt when a storey building they reside at No.43, Salami Street, Mafoluku area of Oshodi, Lagos got razed down by fire around 8:38pm on […]
Ignatius Okpara, Umuahia Governor Theodore Ahamefula Orji, of Abia state, on Monday tongue lashed the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) governorship aspirant in the state, Chief Chikwe Udensi, over his recent media comments that civil servants in the state were presently being owed five months backlog salary arrears. Orji, who is also the chairman of […]
Delta state Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has regretted the sudden transition on Saturday, August 9, of an online Publisher and a member of the state’s Executive Council, Mr. Sunny Ofili. Late Ofili who died late Saturday in a ghastly auto crash along Benin-Asaba Expressway, was until his demise the Special Adviser to the Governor on […]
From Agabus Pwanagba, Jos Following a petition by the Plateau Patriotic Front (PPF), indications have emerged that the State’s House of Assembly might have foreclosed its earlier plans to probe the State Government over allegations of financial misappropriation. It would be recalled that PPF had filed the petition to the leadership of the legislative House […]
Kwara State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed has described the re-election of the Governor of State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola as an affirmation of the supremacy of the wish of the people and reward for good governance and purposeful leadership. Governor Ahmed said this in a congratulatory message to Governor Aregbesola, adding that the Osun […]
Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun has congratulated Ogbeni Rauf Aregbsola, the All Progressive Congress, (APC) and the people of Osun State on the overwhelming victory of the governor at the gubernatorial election in the State. Amosun, who said the re-election of the Aregbesola is divine, also commended the good people of Osun State for […]
By Chief (Sir) Don Ubani, ksc, JP As the Holy Bible puts it in the Book of Ecclesiastes, ‘to everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven’. This implies that, as it is with many other human engagements and enterprises, there is a time for a State Governor to […]
Agabus Pwanagba, Jos Panic and high tension have gripped residents of Jos, the Plateau State capital over rumours that the deadly Ebola virus is in the city. African Examiner gathered that text messages are going round that the virus is now in the state capital. The text message is advising residents to drink and bath with salt […]
Ignatius Okpara, Asaba Acting on a tip- off, the police have uncovered a painter’s workshop in Abraka, Ethiope East council Area of Delta State where stolen vehicles are refurbished and sold. Owner of the workshop, identified as Akposere Philip of 363 Agbor/Sapele Road, Abraka, has been arrested. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Delta Command, […]
As part of effort to guide against the outbreak of. Ebola in Kwara, the state Government has ordered Owners of Corpses entering Kwara to obtain truly certified death Certificates to ascertain the cause of the death. The commissioner for Health, Alhaji Abdul-Kayode Issa gave this order in llorin on Thursday while addressing newsmen on the […]
The Kwara State Government has redeemed the N17 Billion Bond obtained in 2009 for infrastructural development projects. State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, who announced the redemption during a meeting with stakeholders in Ilorin, expressed satisfaction that the state had meet all its obligations under bond. He said the N17b was utilised for the Kwara State […]
Barely 24 hours after confirmation on Monday by the Health Minster, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) infection by one of the doctors who attended to the first victim in Nigeria, Patrick Sawyer, the Lagos state Government has corroborated the country’s chief health officer revelation. The State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide […]
Ignatius Okpara, Umuahia An insane young lady in her 20s on Sunday created a scene in Aba, the commercial nerve centre of Abia State, as she gave birth to a set of female twins on a heap of refuse dump along the road and stoned one of them to death. African Examiner findings revealed that […]
The race for 2015 elections in Lagos is getting hotter as the chairmen of the 57 Local Governments and Local Council Development Areas, LCDAs in the state embarked on massive grassroots empowerment of artisans and market men and women with tools for their trade. At least, 3,000 artisans and market men and women were giving […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Awka As the deadly Ebola disease presently ravages in some African countries, the Anambra State government on Friday announced indefinite ban on corpses from elsewhere to the state. The state Governor, Dr. Willie Obiano, announced this shortly after the corpse of a native of the state who died in Liberia was deposited […]
Ignatius Okpara, Benin The crisis rocking the Edo State House of Assembly, on Thursday took a new twist as the lawmakers, declared the seat of one of its members, Abdul Razak Momoh, representing Etsako 1 constituency vacant. Speaker of the House, Uyi Igbe, who made the pronouncement during their plenary at the old assembly complex […]
The Ogun State Government has recorded a 67.17 percent performance of the 2014 budget as against the 61.26 percent last year in the half year review. Commissioner for Budget and Planning, Mrs. Oluwande Muoyo disclosed this while briefing the press on the mid-year performance of the 2014 Budget. She attributed the improved performance to the […]
Agabus Pwanagba, Jos Not happy with the spate of teenage female suicide bombers in the north, a group named Centre for the Advocacy of Justice and Rights has expressed worries that the abducted Chibok girls may be those who are being used as female bombers. As a result, the group appealed to the security agencies […]
Ignatius Okpara, Umuahia Barely 48 hours after a police inspector attached to the Aba Central police Station CPS shot himself to death in the Abia commercial city, another inspector, identified as Samuel Amaefula, serving at the Osisioma Police Station in the area on wednesday slumped and died. African Examiner reports that Inspector Amaefule, who was […]
…As President plans to save Al-Makura The Nasarawa State House of Assembly has called for the dissolution of the investigative panel set up State chief Judge to look into the allegations against the State Governor, Tanko Al’Makura. The panel, headed by Yusuf Usman, was set up by the Nasarawa State Chief Judge, Justice Suleiman Dikko […]
