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Wednesday, April 4th, 2018
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Despite their deadlock meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday in Abuja on the controversial tenure extension of the National Executive Council NEC of the party, Governors elected under the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC have finally consented to the President’s position and reversed their stance. The Governors […]
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has said his administration has begun process of repealing obsolete laws hampering against effective revenue generation in Sokoto state. To this end, a bill that will soon be sent to the state House of Assembly for passage into law is being perfected by legal and tax officers who […]
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2018
Photo: Late Senator Mustapha Bukar ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Senator Mustapha Bukar of Katsina North Central zone is dead. According to his Personal Assistant, Mr. Ahmed Daura in a post on his Facebook wall, the Senator died Wednesday morning in FCT Abuja. Bukar’s death will be the second within two weeks in the upper Legislative […]
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2018
From Ignatius Okpara ABIA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Two lives were lost Tuesday in a fatal auto crash which involved the convoy of Abia State Governor Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu’s wife. The victims are: Wife of the immediate past member representing Obingwa West constituency in the state House of Assembly, Chief Uche Nwankpa, Mrs. Promise Uche […]
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2018
From Ignatius Okpara ABAKALIKI NIGERIA, (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The recent resignation of the Secretary to the Government of Ebonyi State SSG, Professor Bernard Odoh, has continued to generate mixed reactions as he has attributed his action to alleged highhandedness by Governor Dave Umahi, as well as lack of conducive atmosphere to operate. Our Correspondent reports […]
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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018
Photo: President Muhammadu Buhari (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Barely two weeks after he announced his opposition to the tenure elongation of the ruling APC NEC, President Muhammadu Buhari and his Vice, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo Tuesday, met with the State’s Governors elected under the party’s platform. The Governors who were led by the Chairman of the APC Governors’ […]
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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018
OGUN, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – For the second time within three months, former President Olusegun Obasanjo has again attacked President Muhammadu Buhari, accusing him and his administration as failure The former Military Head of State threw the second salvo Monday at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, while hosting the New […]
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Monday, April 2nd, 2018
BORNO, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No fewer than 29 persons were reportedly killed, while 83 others wounded Sunday night in a clash between the troops and armed suicide bombers in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. The bloody exchange according to army was to dislodge the suspected Boko Haram insurgents who invaded intended to invade the […]
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Sunday, April 1st, 2018
Photo: President Mohammadu Buhari (AFRICAN EXAMINER) The Federal Government has said the list of alleged looters which it released earlier was based on verifiable facts, including the amount involved, the date the amount in question was collected and from where it was taken. Releasing a fresh list of alleged looters, in a statement issued in […]
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Sunday, April 1st, 2018
Photo: Hon Garba Hamman Julde (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Angry constituents Saturday stoned Hon Garba Hamman Julde, a member of the House of Reps representing Bali-Gassol Federal constituency of Taraba state. Citing failed representation and abandonment of his constituents for more than two years, the constituents vent their anger after the lawmaker presented 11 motorcycles and one […]
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Sunday, April 1st, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former Governor of Ekiti State and current Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi has declared his interest to re-contest for the Governorship election of his South West State. Fayemi who was ousted in June 2014 by the incumbent Governor Ayodele Fayose declared his intention Sunday at a […]
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Friday, March 30th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has carpeted the Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, on his continuous complaints about alleged corruption in the immediate past Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) government, saying; “Nigerians are now more interested in what the government has done to make life more meaning for them and not what […]
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Friday, March 30th, 2018
Photo: PDP National Chairman, Uche Secondus (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government of Nigeria has listed names of some members of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) who allegedly looted the national treasury when the party was in power. At a media briefing in Lagos, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed said the PDP […]
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Thursday, March 29th, 2018
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Disturbed by the rumour making the rounds in some quarters of Enugu, state, South -East Nigeria, over alleged extortion of money by Staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC before registering voters in the state, leadership of the electoral body in the state says it has put […]
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Thursday, March 29th, 2018
By Eric Ojo, Abuja (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – WaterAid Nigeria, an affiliate of WaterAid, the international Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), currently working in 34 countries around the world, has urged the Nigerian government to urgently declare a state of emergency in the water and sanitation sector. WaterAid Nigeria also called on the Federal Government to set up […]
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2018
Photo: Nigeria’s Police Boss, Ibrahim Idris (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – More drama has unfolded as Senator Dino Melaye of Kogi State has given the Inspector General of Police IGP, Mr. Ibrahim Idris 48-hours ultimatum to produce the six suspects connected to his alleged arms case, but purportedly escaped from Police custody. Melaye, who is said to […]
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2018
Photo: Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun By Ganiyu Nasirudeen (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – After a brief disagreement among members of the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee FAAC, over the revenue remitted by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC, the Federal Government (FG) Wednesday distributed the sum of N647.39bn among the three tiers of government. The State […]
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2018
Photo: Dino Melaye …Police Declares Dino Melaye Wanted KOGI, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Inspector-General of Police IGP, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, has ordered the immediate removal of the Kogi State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ali Janga. Similarly, IGP directed the redeployment of the Commander, Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad in the state, the Divisional Police Officer […]
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2018
LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As part of preparation for President Muhammadu Buhari’s two –day visit, the Lagos State Government has declared Thursday, March 29, a work free day. Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Kehinde Bamigbetan made the declaration in a statement he signed Tuesday. He explained the measure was to enable residents come […]
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2018
Photo: Kemi Adeosun, Nigeria’s Finance Minister …Over Dubious Disclosures On Subsidy Payments; Bleak Easter For Civil Servants (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There are indicators that the forthcoming Easter celebration by federal and state civil servants may be bleak following a fresh scam uncovered in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) subsidy payment. A civil rights organisation, Coalition for […]
