(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari says the nation’s economy is steadily improving, urging Nigerians to remain optimistic as the future of the country is bright. At a State dinner held Monday, in his honour by the Government of Jigawa State during his two-day working visit, President Buhari called on Nigerians to continue supporting his […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The joint committee of the Senate and House of Representatives investigating the inavasion of the upper Legislative Chamber and stealing of mace recently has summoned Senators Ovie Omo-Agege and Ali Ndume over the drama. Reports say the Chairman of the investigative committee, Senator Bala Ibn Na’Allah, issued the summon at the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege was on Tuesday absent from plenary. The Senate on April 2, suspended Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege (Delta-APC) over a “dissenting comment’’ on decision of the Upper Chamber on adoption of conference report on INEC Commission Act (2010) Amendment Bill. Omo-Agege, however went to court to challenge his suspension and the court in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has dismissed two suits challenging the attempt by the All Progressives Congress APC to extend the tenure of its National Chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun and other executives of the party at the national, state, local government and ward levels. Justice Nnamdi Dimgba in two separate judgments Monday […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi, on Saturday won the All Progressive Congress (APC) governorship primary election for the July 14 election in Ekiti. In the declared result of the exercise, Fayemi polled 941 votes to defeat 31 other aspirants, including a former governor of the state, Chief Segun […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The rescheduled primary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Ekiti Governorship election is underway amid very tight security in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital. Reports say the mobile policemen are deployed to monitor the exercise and maintain peace at the venue of the exercise. The tight security arrangement followed uncovered plot […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Abuja from London after a medical check-up in London. NAN reports that the president who arrived Nigeria on Friday had initially planned to return on Saturday but decided to reduce his stay in the UK by a day. The presidential aircraft conveying him and some of […]
EKITI, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The People’s Democratic Party’s candidate in the forthcoming Ekiti Governorship election Prof. Kolapo Olusola-Eleka has announced the immediate past Chairman of Ado Local Government Area of the State, Mr. Deji Ogunsakin as his running mate. The announcement was made Friday in a Facebook post by the Special Assistant on Public Communications and New […]
Photo: Former President Olusegun Obasanjo (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former President Olusegun Obasanjo is forging ahead in pursuing his newly conceived political ambition, as his Coalition For Nigeria Movement CNM seems to have been fused into one of the Nigerian political parties – African Democratic Congress ADC. Obasanjo, a former Leader of the opposition People’s Democratic Party […]
By Ayo Balogun, Lagos (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former governor of Osun, Mr Olagunsoye Oyinlola, has resigned his appointment as the Chairman of National Identity Management Commission (NIMC). Oyinlola, in a resignation letter dated May 9, and addressed to President Muhammadu Buhari, said he resigned his appointment to pursue other political engagement. African Examiner reports […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Senator Magnus Ngei Abe, has declared that his disagreement with leader of the party in the state and Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi is political. Abe, in a statement issued in Port Harcourt by […]
Photo: Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Police Force on Wednesday said that the Senate resolution declaring the Inspector-General of Police ( IG), Mr Ibrahim Idris as enemy of democracy was a deliberate attempt to blackmail him. The senate, Led by Senate President, Bukola Saraki, at plenary on Wednesday, declared the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday directed the Federal Ministry of Health to step up surveillance activities against Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the country. The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, stated this when he briefed State House correspondents at the end of the council’s meeting chaired by Vice-President Yemi […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former Governor and an aspirant in the Ekiti State Gubernatorial election under the ruling APC, Dr. Kayode Fayemi has denied reports that he walked out on his party Leaders Tuesday at a mediating meeting in Abuja with other party’s contestants. Fayemi who is also the Minister of Mines […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court in Lagos has granted fresh interim orders to the EFCC to seize 8.4 million dollars (N3.02 billion) and about N7.4 billion found in bank accounts linked to a former First Lady, Patience Jonathan. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission secured the order by Justice Mojisola Olatoregun through an […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ekiti State Deputy Governor, Prof. Kolapo Olusola-Eleka has emerged the winner of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primary election. Reports say a total of 1,968 delegates were accredited and voted at the primary poll. Out of the total of number of votes, as announced by leader of PDP electoral committee, Gov. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidency says President Muhammadu Buhari will tomorrow, Tuesday undertake a four-day trip to the United Kingdom to see his Doctor. A statement from the presidency signed by Shehu Garba explained that “in the course of the technical stop-over for aircraft maintenance in London on his way back from Washington last week, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Congress (APC) says aspirants whose supporters disrupted Saturday’s governorship primary election in Ekiti state would be disqualified from participating in the exercise. The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Malam Bolaji Abdullahi, stated this while speaking with newsmen on Monday in Abuja. Chairman of the Ekiti Governorship Primary Election […]
By Niyi Adeyi (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Suspected notorious kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, also known as Evans, aroused emotion Monday in court, when he broke down in tears, complaining and lamenting that he is not being treated fairly. After being ordered to come inside the courtroom by Justice Adedayo Akintoye, Evans groused that he was not […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Kogi State High Court sitting in Lokoja the State capital has adjourned hearing of the bail application filed by the embattled Senator Dino Melaye for Thursday, May 10, 2018. This followed the inability of parties to submit their counter affidavit and “better” affidavit to the written bail application by Melaye’s counsel […]
