From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu At least 10 people reportedly burnt to death in a fatal auto crash along the Obollo-Afor- 9th Mile Express Way in Enugu State. Our Correspondent gathered that the accident involved a bus belonging to a popular transport company – Peace Mass Transit in the area. An eye witnessed told African Examiner […]
The Kwara State Government says the state is currently free from the deadly Ebola Virus. This is consequent upon the receipt of negative test result on the only suspected case of the disease from Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH ). Special Assistant, Information to the State Governor and member, Kwara State Committee on the Prevention & […]
The protest embarked upon by the students of Ogun State University (OOU), Ago Iwoye, against hike in their school fees continued early today as some of them besieged the Oke Mosan, Abeokuta suburb Governor’s office, demanding slash in the school’s tuition. The students under the leadership of the institution Students’ Union Government, Olusegun Ifede, started […]
Ignatius Okpara, Enugu The Enugu state Police Command has arrested a 22-year-old security guard identified as Gideon Musa for allegedly raping a 9-year-old girl to death in Enugu, the state capital. Our Correspondent learnt that the suspect, who is a security guard near the victim’s house, took the teenager to a nearby bush and raped […]
Three major Non-Governmental Organisations, Kwara North Youth Consultative forum, The National Association of Kwara State Students (NAKSS), National Headquarters and Ilorin Emirate Students Union, National Headquarters, have endorsed the State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed for a second term in office. In separate statements, the organisations identified the people oriented policies and programmes of Governor Ahmed […]
The embattled Enugu State Deputy Governor who is responding to allegations of gross misconducts, Sunday Onyebuchi, slumped later this morning in Enugu, the state capital while responding to questions from the investigative panel. Our Eastern Correspondent reported that Onyebuchi who was in the company of his wife, Nneka, another defence witness as well as his […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed October 11, 2014 for the Adamawa state governorship election. The former governor, Murtala Nyako was impeached on July 15 after a heated battle with members of the State House of Assembly over allegation of corruption and mismanagement of government funds. The state Residential Electoral Commissioner, Kasim Gaidam, […]
Agabus Pwanagba, Jos Following the recent Ebola virus scourge that is bedeviling some West African countries, and with a few cases in Nigeria, a group under the named Bagos Foundation has flagged off an awareness campaign in Jos the Plateau State Capital. Chairman of the group Dachung Musa on Tuesday in Jos lamented how some […]
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 […]
