By Niyi Adeyi ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has sacked the Director-General of the Department of State ServiceDSS, Mr. Lawal Daura. Prof Osinbajo’s spokesman, Mr. Laolu Akande, said this in a tweet via his Twitter handle, @akandeoj. The tweet read: “AgP Yemi Osinbajo has directed the termination of the appointment […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Security operatives on Tuesday barred some lawmakers, newsmen and staff of the National Assembly from entering the National Assembly complex. The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) reports that security operatives who are in their numbers, barricaded entrance to the complex as early as 7 a.m. No reason was given for this. Some of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ahead of the planned defection of Senate minority leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio to the All Progressives Congress, APC, it has emerged that his decision may have been influenced by a serious standoff with his hand chosen successor, Mr. Udom Emmanuel over the 2019 governorship ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. […]
Photo: Gombe governor Ibrahim Dankwambo (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As PDP presidential aspirants intensify efforts to secure the party’s ticket ahead of the 2019 general elections, Gombe governor Ibrahim Dankwambo on Monday visited Kaduna to solicit the support of the party’s delegates in the North-West zone. Dankwambo, who announced his desire to challenge for the nation’s […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Despite the allegation of NYSC certificate forgery against the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, the Information minister, Lai Mohammed on Monday declared that President Muhammadu Buhari’s integrity remains unblemished. Alhaji Lai Mohammed made the declaration when he paid an official visit to the Abuja office of The Authority Newspaper. He said […]
Photo: Sen. Godswill Akpabio By Niyi Adeyi (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The speculation that the immediate past Akwa Ibom State Governor Senator Godswill Akpabio is on the verge of crossing to the ruling APC Sunday, finally came to reality, as the Senate Minority Leader visited President Muhammadu Buhari in London and had a closed door meeting with […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Sudden increase in the volume of water in River Mayo Celbe, Taraba was responsible for the drowning of nine corps members who were swimming during a picnic party, the police said. The Taraba Police Command’s spokesman, ASP David Missal, who confirmed the incident which occurred on Saturday said seven corpses had so […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Kano State Deputy Governor, Prof. Hafiz Abubakar, on Saturday tendered his letter of resignation to Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje amid political crisis. Abubakar’s notice of resignation was contained in a letter he wrote to Ganduje dated Aug. 4, 2018. The outgoing Deputy Governor said he had desired to remain in office until […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The ruling All Progressives Congress APC has reversed the suspension slammed on Senator Shehu Sani (Kaduna central) by his ward. The announcement to this effect was contained in a statement issued Sunday in Abuja by the party’s Acting National Publicity Secretary Mr. Yekini Nabena. Nabena stated: “The National […]
LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former Minister of Works and Chieftain of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party PDP, Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe has described the gale of defections into the leading opposition as a measure of the growing confidence in the party. Ogunlewe who said this Friday in Lagos during an interview said the party […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived in London for a 10-day working holiday. He left Abuja for London in the early hours of Friday. On hand to bid him farewell were the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, the Minister of the FCT, Mohammed Bello and the Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari. While […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Sen. Abu Ibrahim (APC-Katsina) says there will no peace in the Senate until Bukola Saraki resigns his position as Senate President. Speaking to newsmen on Thursday, Senator Ibrahim sarcastically commended Saraki for honourably leaving the All Progressives Congress (APC) but asked him to do the needful by resigning honourably too. His words: […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus has assured the Senate President Dr Bukola Saraki and others who defected to the party recently that history will be fair to them for returning to party they “truly belong.” Prince “Secondus who spoke at the 81st National Executive Committee […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government (FG) has declared that the ruling APC has nothing to lose with the defection of the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, alleging that he has since been slowing down the progress of the present government. Minister of Information and Culture Alhaji Lai Mohammed made the declaration Wednesday in […]
Photo: Nigeria’s President Muhammad Buhari (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) Governors’ Forum, Gov. Rochas Okorocha of Imo, has assured that no governor will defect from the party anymore. The governor gave the assurance at the end of a closed door meeting between President Muhammadu Buhari and APC governors at the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari is billed to travel to London on a 10-day “working holiday.” According to a statement issued Wednesday by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity Mr. Femi Adesina the holiday will commence on Friday, August 3, 2018. Some Nigerians are speculating that the real reason for the President’s visit […]
SOKOTO, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The former Speaker of the House of Representatives and incumbent Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, has finally defected from the ruling All Progressives Congress APC to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party PDP. Tambuwal who is the third APC Governor to leave the party within a week announced his defection Wednesday […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – After the first denial, the National Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Bolaji Abdullahi, may have joined his Kwara political leader, the Senate President Bukola Saraki, by resigning his position. According to a tweet from Abdullahi’s ‘’unverified’’ Twitter handle – @BolajiAbdullahi, said: “In view of recent political developments in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidency has condemned attempts in some quarters to drag the name of President Muhammadu Buhari into the on-going political saga in Benue State House of Assembly. Mr Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday, dissociated the president from the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has decried what it called the harassment of Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, opposition leaders, and voices of dissent by the All Progressives Congress (APC) led-Federal Government. The party, in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Tuesday in Abuja, accused the government of […]
