(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja Sunday for Japan to participate in the Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD7) holding in the City of Yokohama, August 28-30, 2019. President Buhari’s participation will be his second, having attended TICAD6 in Nairobi, Kenya, in August 2016. With the theme, “Africa and Yokohama, […]
By Ado Adamu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crime Commission on Thursday hurriedly arraigned a businessman it has been holding for five months despite a court order ordering his release. The agency acted a few hours after a petition to the National Human Rights Commission and just as it was served with a […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu …Describes It As Barbaric, Carnivorous (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former member of the Federal House of Representatives Chief U.S.A Igwesi, has joined well meaning Nigerians in condemning the recent attack on the immediate past Deputy Senate President, Chief Ike Ekweremadu by members of the outlawed Indigenous people of Biafra IPOB Germany […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday, inaugurated two screening committees to examine and scrutinise aspirants contesting for the party’s governorship primaries on Aug. 29. The National Chairman of APC, Adams Oshiomhole who inaugurated the committees in Abuja, urged them to do proper screening. He said proper screening of candidates would […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the re-appointment of Mr Femi Adesina as Special Adviser, Media and Publicity, and Malam Garba Shehu as Senior Special Assistant, Media and Publicity. A statement issued by Mr Abiodun Oladunjoye, Deputy Director (Information), Media Unit of the State House, Abuja, on Wednesday said the President also re-appointed […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The re-appointment of Hon Rotimi Amaechi as Minister of Transportation and Senator Gbemi Saraki as the Minister of State has been described as “a continuation of a golden age for Nigerian railways. “Hon Amaechi is the transformational leader who under President Muhammadu Buhari changed the face of Nigerian railways from old to […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governors of south- East geo-political zone of Nigeria, have issued a stern warning to runaway leader of the proscribed indigenous people of Biafra IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, over his recent threats to attack them and other South-East leaders abroad. Speaking under the umbrella of South east governors forum, on […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Mohammadu Buhari has finally assigned portfolios to new ministers after a three day presidential retreat held at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. After being sworn-in, the President urged the new ministers to keep the ground running as soon as they resume their duty posts. His words: “I am pleased to note that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has approved replacements for heads of Federal Government agencies that were recently appointed as ministers. Sen. Basheer Garba Mohammed has been appointed Federal Commissioner, National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons. He replaces Sadiya Umar Farouk. Dr. Chioma Ejikeme has been appointed Executive Secretary, Pension Transitional Arrangement […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal High Court Abuja has ordered that a U. S.-based businesswoman, Mrs Isabella Oshodin, should remain in the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)’s custody pending the determination of the suit brought before it. Justice Taiwo Taiwo, who adjourned the matter till Aug. 21, ordered that Oshodin should remain in the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chairman, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Screening Committee for Bayelsa and governor of Oyo State Mr Seyi Makinde, says the party has no preferred aspirant for its primary election in Bayelsa. Makinde said this while speaking at the screening of PDP aspirants for Bayelsa on Monday at Wadata Plaza, Abuja. Makinde noted that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal High Court, on Monday, ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to immediately pay the sum of N8 billion to Tiv communities in Benue invaded by soldiers sometime in year 2001. The money was awarded in favour of the communities in Logo, Ukum, Kwande and Katsina-Ala Local Government Areas of […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A group operating under the platform of Enugu West People’s Parliament has condemned in strong terms the attack on the former Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu by members of the proscribed indigenous people of Biafra IPOB, in Nuremberg Germany . While also flaying the threats by the Biafran agitators […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As it commences screening of aspirants on Monday, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) South-South Youth Vanguard has cautioned the party’s screening committee for Kogi and Bayelsa governorship primaries against succumbing to pressure from governors and other stakeholders of the party. The youth group gave the warning in a statement issued by its […]
Photo: Sen. Ike Ekweremadu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission has condemned in its entirety, the attack on the former deputy senate president and current serving senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Senator Ike Ekweremadu at the 2nd Annual Igbo Cultural Festival held in Nuremberg, Germany. Senator Ekweremadu who was attending as a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation(NNPC) says strategic partnership and new investments in the Upstream Petroleum Sector are essential to actualise the growth of the nation’s crude Oil reserves . Group Managing Director of NNPC Malam Mele Kyari, disclosed this when the Executive Vice President of China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), Mr […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman/CEO Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) has demanded for thorough investigation into the death of a Nigerian Pastor in China, Joseph Ogenna Nwajueze from the Chinese authorities. In a statement issued in Abuja by the NIDCOM Head of Media, Abdur-Rahman Balogun, stated that the death of the Nigerian Pastor […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has said his administration’s investment in infrastructure like rails, roads, bridges and waterways have started yielding positive results. Speaking at the commissioning of the reconstructed Shinkafi-Yandaki-Gafiya—Abdallawa-Dankaba road in Katsina, as part of activities during his visit to the state, the President said the special attention given to infrastructure by […]
Press Release: (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Court on 5th August, 2019 granted Sheikh Ibraheem C leave to travel to India for medical treatment. Consequently, the Government and its relevant agencies took steps to comply with the Order. In line with the Court Order, El-Zakzaky was approved to embark on the trip with State officials […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The body of a middle aged man has been found hanging in front of a shop in Asaba, the Delta capital. The incident, which occurred in the early hours of Friday in the Umuagu area of Asaba, left many residents of the area in shock. The residents told newsmen that the man, […]
