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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to probe President Olusegun Obasanjo for allegedly spending $16bn on power projects. While reacting to comment credited to President Buhari that despite the huge expenditure, there was no corresponding power supply to Nigerians, the CNPP Secretary General, Chief Willy Ezugwu […]
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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2018
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Despite being admitted in the hospital, Justice Okon Abang of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered further trial of a former National Publicity Secretary of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party PDP Olisa Metuh in absentia. Metuh collapsed in the court room Monday while the trial was about to […]
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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2018
Photo: Nigeria’s President Mohammadu Buhari From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAINER) – Apex Igbo socio cultural body, Ohaneze Ndigbo, has canvassed for the adoption of a six-year rotational single tenure for the president and governors of 36 states in Nigeria The body also suggested the scrapping of local government system in the country even as […]
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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2018
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari is said to be meeting with a delegation of the Senate over an allegation last week by the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki that the Inspector General of Police IGP Mr. Ibrahim Idris was plotting to frame him up in the case of some arrested suspected cultists […]
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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2018
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, Tuesday confirmed that a total of 35 political parties nominated candidates for Ekiti State governorship election within the deadline. INEC boss disclosed this Tuesday in Abuja, in an interview with newsmen, when he received a delegation of the ECOWAS Female Parliament Association (ECOFEPA). Prof. Yakubu […]
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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Kwara State Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development says it has closed no fewer than 40 schools operating illegally across the three senatorial districts of the state. Mrs Mariam Garba, Permanent Secretary in charge of the ministry, made this known in a statement in Ilorin on Tuesday. Garba said that […]
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Monday, May 21st, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday visited the leader of the Afenifere, Pa Reuben Fasoranti at his country home in Akure, Ondo after over 20 years of such meeting. The meeting, which was held behind closed doors for about 30 minutes, was believed to be ahead of 2019 election and way […]
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Monday, May 21st, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mr Olisa Metuh, former National Publicity Secretary, Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), charged for fraudulently receiving N400 million on Monday collapsed in the Federal High Court Abuja. Metuh allegedly missed his step and fell as he was attempting to enter the dock when his case was called. Following the incident, the Justice Okon […]
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Monday, May 21st, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mr Adebisi Adeniyi, counsel to the EFCC on Monday accused Mr Olayinka Bolanle of arm-twisting and disrespecting the court by deliberately absenting himself from defending his client in court. Expressing his frustration over the general attitude of all the defense counsel in the case of alleged N8 billion CBN currency scam, Adeniyi […]
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Sunday, May 20th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that it had set May 26, 2018 for rescheduled Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) for over 12, 000 candidates across the country. JAMB’s Head of Media, Dr Fabian Benjamin, disclosed Sunday this in an interview in Abuja. Dr. Benjamin revealed that over 12, […]
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Sunday, May 20th, 2018
Photo: Sen. Iyiola Omisore (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former Deputy Governor of Osun, Sen. Iyiola Omisore has announced his defection from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to Social Democratic Party (SDP). Omisore, who announced his defection in a statement made available to newsmen in Osogbo on Sunday, said he would contest the Sept. 22 governorship election […]
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Friday, May 18th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Cuban authorities believe more than 100 people were killed Friday when a Cubana de Aviacion Boeing 737-200 crashed on takeoff from Havana’s Jose Marti International Airport. Three passengers were in critical condition after surviving the crash, the state-run newspaper Granma reported. The flight to the eastern Cuban city of Holguin went down […]
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Friday, May 18th, 2018
GOMBE, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Gombe State Police Command has paraded three suspects allegedly involved in motorcycle theft and dealing in fake currency in the North Eastern State. While speaking to newsmen, State Commissioner of Police CP, Mr. Shina Olukolu Friday told newsmen in Gombe, the State capital that one of the suspects allegedly […]
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Friday, May 18th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Supreme Court Friday ordered a former Managing Director of the defunct Intercontinental Bank Plc, Dr. Erastus Akingbola, to return to the Federal High Court in Lagos to restart his trial over N5bn alleged fraud charges. It would be recalled that the trial was prematurely terminated in April 2012 by Justice Charles Archibong. […]
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Friday, May 18th, 2018
…Resceduled Polls hold in 5 LGAs June 2 KADUNA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kaduna State Independent Electoral Commission Thursday confirmed the results for 18 chairmanship seats out of the 23 Local Governments in the just concluded May 12 local councils polls. KASIEC Chairman, Dr Saratu Dikko who confirmed the results in Kaduna, said the All progressives […]
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Thursday, May 17th, 2018
Photo: Ali-Modu Sheriff ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari and former factional National Chairman of the opposition PDP Ali-Modu Sherrif are meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting between the two is being held behind closed doors inside the Buhari office. It would be recalled that the sacked PDP National Leader met with […]
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Thursday, May 17th, 2018
…Registrar Not Suspended or Handed Over to ICPC, EFCC –NABTEB Spokesperson (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Registrar/Chief Executive of the National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB), Professor Ifeoma Isiugo-Abanihe has been queried over alleged fraud in award of contracts running into several millions of naira. African Examiner gathered that the board of the agency met […]
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari sends his greetings and best wishes to Muslims in Nigeria and across the world as they commence the 30-day Ramadan fast. In his message to the nation on the beginning of the Ramadan, the President says fasting is not just merely meant to stay hungry or thirsty, but an […]
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2018
Photo: Senate President, Olusola Saraki (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Assembly on Wednesday passed the 2018 Appropriation Bill of N9.12 trillion. The Budget was increased by the legislature by N508 billion, from N8.61 trillion proposed by President Muhammadu Buhari in Appropriation Bill presented to the assembly in November, 2017. The Appropriation Committees of both chambers […]
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The embattled Kogi Senator Dino Melaye has been granted bail, in the case of alleged gun-running leveled against him. The Wednesday’s ruling by Justice Nasir Ajana, followed the application filed by the defendant’s Counsel Chief Mike Ozekhome SAN before the court. The application contended that continued incarceration of Melaye would jeopardise his health […]
