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Friday, November 23rd, 2018
From. Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria’s Vice President, professor Yemi Osinbajo, has assured people of the South east geo political zone of Nigeria, of the president Muhammadu Buhari’s led administration’s commitment to the development of the region. . He gave the assurance Friday in Enugu while declaring open the campaign office of the Enugu state governorship […]
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2018
By Abdul Gaffar Bello ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As the 2019 General elections gather momentum, the Nigerian Election Debate Group (EDG) has fixed Friday, December 14, 2018 for the debate of Presidential candidates across all the political parties. The group’s chairman, Mr. John Momoh disclosed this at a press conference in Abuja on Thursday. Similarly, […]
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2018
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Again, another two All Progressives Congress (APC) members of the House of Representatives have dumped the ruling party for another opposition. The new defectors according to the letters read at the plenary Thursday by the Speaker, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, were: Ahmed Abu (Niger State) and Stephen Olemija (Ondo […]
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate on Wednesday resolved to summon the Minister of Transport, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, to explain the Federal Government’s plans for railway development in the country’s eastern axis. Amaechi is to appear before the Senate Committees on Land Transport, Local and Foreign Debts. No date was announced for the minister’s appearance in […]
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The fallout from the recent ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) congresses and primaries further manifested Wednesday in Abuja, as two house members of the party announced their exit. The two Legislators who left according to the letters read at the plenary by the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara were Messrs Kolawole Babatunde (Ondo) and Mukaila […]
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2018
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Politicians across the parties in Nigeria, elder statesmen, top government functionaries, activists among others, gathered in Abuja Tuesday, to attend the public presentation of a book authored by the immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan. The Book titled: ‘’My Transition Hours’’ was unveiled inside the Congress Hall of the Transcorp Hilton […]
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Monday, November 19th, 2018
OSUN, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo has remanded the sacked Lecturer of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile Ife Prof. Richard Iyiola Akindele in prison. Prof. Akindele who was of the Accounting department was arraigned before court, presided by Justice Maureen Onyetenu, by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission […]
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Sunday, November 18th, 2018
…formal Launch in Yola Monday (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidential candidate of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar, Sunday trailed the blaze when he unveiled his policy plan, with the promise to create ‘’three million jobs’’ annually if elected into power. This is one of the key points in the policy document released by […]
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Sunday, November 18th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the candidates of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) the winners of the bye-elections which held Saturday in three different Federal constituencies including Bauchi, Kwara and Katsina States. The Returning Officer, Prof. Ahmed Sarkin-Paggam, Sunday declared Alhaji Yusuf Nuhu as the winner of the Toro […]
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Saturday, November 17th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will on Sunday lift ban on campaign for 2019 presidential and National Assembly elections slated for Feb. 16, 2019 A statement by Mr Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, INEC Director Of Voter Education and Publicity, on Saturday in Abuja said that political parties who fielded candidates for both elections […]
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Friday, November 16th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of five Chief Executive officers and two Executive Directors of some Federal Agencies. This was disclosed in a statement issued by Mr Olusegun Adekunle, Permanent Secretary (General Services) Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation on Friday in Abuja. According to him, […]
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Friday, November 16th, 2018
Photo: (R-L): President Buhari, APC National Chairman Adams Oshiomole, Engr. Emeka Okwuosa and Chief Chekwas Okorie as Buhari meets with select leaders from Southeast, Nigeria. By Ignatius Okpara, Enugu …Describes Endorsement as Chaff with No Substance (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the split within the Ohanaeze Igbo socio-cultural group over its reported […]
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Friday, November 16th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal High Court in Abuja has declared that incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari cannot legally double as the Minister of Petroleum Resources. The court made the declaration Thursday while giving judgment in a suit filed last year by a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Dr. Olisa Agbakoba (SAN). Agbakoba had, in […]
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Friday, November 16th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal Friday reduced jail terms earlier this year slammed on former Taraba State Governor, Mr. Jolly Nyame and his Plateau State counterpart, Senator Joshua Dariye. While the14-year imprisonment by a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja on Nyame, was reduced to 12 years, Senator […]
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2018
Photo: NNPC GMD, Maikanti Baru (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate Committee on Gas on Wednesday decried a fresh 1.2 billion dollars illegal withdrawal from the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas ( NLNG). The Chairman of the committee, Sen. Bassey Akpan made this known at the committee’s investigative meeting into 1.05 billion dollars said to be withdrawn […]
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Following the indictment of the Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbanjo and the Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in a N5.8 billion scam by the Federal legislature, a call from a leading pro-democracy organization – HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has been made for comprehensive reorganization of […]
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2018
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria’s former Vice president, and presidential candidate of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has vowed to lead other forces in ensuring that President Mohammadu Buhari, who is the ruling All progressive congress APC flag bearer in the 2019 election did not get a second […]
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2018
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the three sureties of the self-exiled Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu to pay N100m each, into the court’s account over their failure to produce the former Director of the Radio Biafra in court. Kanu who recently resurfaced in […]
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2018
Photo: Governor Aminu Tambuwal, Sokoto SOKOTO, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Sokoto State Deputy Governor, Alhaji Ahmad Aliyu, has resigned his position. Aliyu, who is the All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship candidate, announced his resignation in a letter to the state House of Assembly dated November 13, 2018. The letter was presented by the Deputy Speaker, Alhaji […]
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Due to lack of quorum, the Senate has adjourned its plenary for a week, now to resume Tuesday, November 20. On Tuesday, only 20 members were present as the time the plenary session supposed to commence. There are over 100 Senators and for the plenary to hold, not less than 38 members of […]
