(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Kano State has restricted movement of motor vehicles, tricycles and all other means of transportation across the 44 local government areas of the state. According to the police, the measure is to ensure free and fair gubernatorial supplementary election scheduled for March 23 in the state. This was […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Owerri (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), has dragged Deputy Speaker of Abia State House of Assembly, Dr. Cosmos Chukwudi Ndukwe to court for alleged using his position as public officer for self gratification and corrupt enrichment. According to the anti graft agency, the offences […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – LEADER of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Delta State, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor, has come hard on supporters of the senator representing Delta Central senatorial district, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege stating that, “Omo-Agege was at no time the candidate of the party nor was he at any time the Senator-elect.” Emerhor’s reaction is […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Osun State Police Command said Thursday that it had fortified security in the state to prevent any breakdown of law and order ahead of Friday’s Governorship Election Petition Tribunal judgment. The Command’s Spokesperson DSP Folashade Odoro confirmed that the Commissioner of Police (CP), Mrs Abiodun Ige, had directed officers to be […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Senate has approved the proposed new National minimum wage of N30, 000. The new minimum wage Act CAP N61 LFN (repeal and re-enactment) Bill, 2019, was read Tuesday for the third time and passed the same day. Prior to this, a report by the Ad hoc committee on […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to stop its planned resumption of collation of the Governorship election result in Bauchi State. Justice Ekwo Ejembi gave the order Tuesday while ruling on a suit filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An army spokesman has confirmed the killing of Col. Mohammed Barack, the Garrison Commander, 33 Artillery Brigade of Nigerian Army in Shadawanka Barracks, Bauchi, Unidentified gunmen killed the officer on Sunday. It was not clear whether he was killed by bandits or assassins. Barack, who was riding a power bike, was shot […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has moved to seize plots of land and buildings valued at N4.8 billion from the Shehu Yar’adua Foundation and 29 other firms. ICPC Spokesperson, Mrs Rasheedat Okoduwa disclosed this in a Press Statement in Abuja. She said that the properties included 22.9 […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The black boxes of the Ethiopian Airlines jet that crashed with the loss of 157 lives recently have been read successfully, French accident investigators said on Monday. “The boxes from the Boeing 737 MAX 8, which crashed on March 10 shortly after take-off from Addis Ababa, have now been sent back to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has urged the actors in the communal and persistent violence in Kaduna State to come to terms with the fact that mutual violence has no winners, but losers on both sides of the conflict. Reacting to the endless carnage in Kaduna State on Saturday, President Buhari said, “I am […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Owerri (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Imo state gubernatorial candidate of the All progressive congress APC in the just concluded 2019 general polls, Senator Hope Uzodinma has described the allegations that he worked for the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and winner of the election, Emeka Ihedioha as unfounded and malicious. The […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Otunba Gbenga Daniel, a former governor of Ogun and a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says he is quitting partisan politics. Daniel made this known in a letter dated March 14 and addressed to the National Chairman of the PDP, Uche Secondus. The letter reads: “This is to inform you […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ahead of the inauguration of Nigeria’s 9th National Assembly (NASS), in June 2019, a coalition of South East Civil Society and Human Rights Organizations, have adopted and canvassed support for Hon. (Mrs) Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) from Abia state for the Speakership position […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – After the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced the date of rerun polls in some States, Vice President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has held separate private meetings with Governors Mohammadu Abubakar of Bauchi State and his Adamawa counterpart, Jibrila Bindow. The States are among those affected and INEC announced the […]
LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State has blamed the landlord of the collapsed building in Ita Faji, on Lagos Island which claimed about 10 lives for resisting government demolition plan. Ambode, who visited the scene of the collapsed three-storeyed building on Mercy Street, Ita-Faji, Lagos, said that many buildings were […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Awka (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tragedy struck Wednesday at Ibughubu Market, Umuchu, in Aguata council Area of Anambra State, South-East Nigeria, as six persons lost their lives in a ghastly auto crash, involving a truck loaded with cement and a tipper. The unfortunate incident claimed the lives of the two drivers of the […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Federal Government (FG) has banned Boeing’s 737 Max 8 aircraft from operating within in its airspace. Minister of State for Transport (Aviation) Senator Hadi Sirika, made the announcement Wednesday at the end of the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting, in Abuja. The first meeting after the general elections which […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the Constitution of the 2019 Presidential Inauguration Committee. The Permanent Secretary, General Services Office in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) Mr Olusegun Adekunle, disclosed this in statement on Wednesday in Abuja. Adekunle said that the SGF would serve […]
By Ayo Balogun, Lagos LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Many primary school pupils were feared dead early today after a three-storeyed building collapsed at Ita faji, Lagos Island. The sad incident occurred at about 10 am. African Examiner’s correspondent reports that many pupils were seen being rushed to the General Hospital, Marina, while parents have […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday met behind closed doors with seven state Governors of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC), at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Reports indicated that the meeting came barely an hour after the President returned to Abuja after participating in Saturday’s Gubernatorial and State House of Assembly elections […]
