ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court in Abuja has upheld no case submission prayer of a former Senate Leader, Ali Ndume. Justice Gabriel Kolawole while delivering his judgement Tuesday dismissed the allegations against the embattled lawmaker and the suit. Ndume, who is representing Borno South Senatorial district, but currently on six […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has said that the hurried trip embarked to London by First Lady, Mrs Aisha Buhari was a confirmation that President Muhammadu Buhari’s health had deteriorated, insisting the President is indeed on life-support.” The governor, who addressed some journalists in Lagos on Monday claimed that the worsen […]
Photo caption: Chairman of the South East Governors forum and Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi From Ignatius Okpara ENUGU NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The South-East Governors Forum and the umbrella body of the Igbo race, Ohaneze Ndigbo, have opposed the clamour for Biafra, declaring that the “Ndigbos are in support of a united Nigeria where […]
Photo caption: Dr. Doyin Okupe, Former Senior Special Assistant to former Nigeria’s President, Goodluck Jonathan By Niyi Adeyi BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former Spokesperson to the immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr. Doyin Okupe has resigned his membership of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Okupe who is from the Ogun State East […]
By Ayo Balogun EKITI, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has dissolved his Executive Council. Fayose’s Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka disclosed this in a statement issued Sunday in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital. “All the former Commissioners are directed to hand over to the Permanent […]
Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu state chapter Chairman of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Rev. Dr. Godwin Madu, has faulted the radical approach adopted by the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to agitate for the marginalization of the south Eastern zone of Nigeria, saying such […]
Photo caption: Nigeria’s most dreaded billionaire Kidnapper Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike aka Evans (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Notorious suspected kidnapper kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike otherwise referred to as Evans, has filed a suit before a Lagos High Court, challenging his persistent detention without trial. In the suit marked FHC/L/CS/1012/2017 and filed Wednesday by his Lawyer, Mr. Olukoya Ogungbeje, Evans is […]
Photo caption: Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo state Edo Assembly Confirms Obaseki’s Commissioner Nominees (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Edo State House of Assembly has confirmed 18 Commissioner Nominees sent to it by Governor Godwin Obaseki. The Governor in a letter dated June 20, 2017 to the Legislative House requested the Speaker Hon. Justin Okonoboh to facilitate […]
By Ayo Balogun, Ado-Ekiti (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ekiti state governor, Ayo Fayose has blasted the Nigerian presidency for its inability to tell Nigerian the state of the health of the president who is currently in London receiving treatment for an undisclosed illness. The governor in a statement released in Ado-Ekiti, also blasted the presidency for […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Reports say the authorities of the University of Maiduguri have started building a 27 kilometer trench around the school to prevent the unending Boko Haram attack on the school. The trenches are expected to make it impossible for the Boko Haram militants to drive or walk on foot to the school to […]
Photo caption: Group Head, Marketing and Corporate Communications, United Bank for Africa( UBA) Bola Atta flanked by pupils of C. William Brumskine elementary school, Monrovia, during a visit to the school as part of UBA foundations Read Africa, Initiative (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – In pursuance of its mission to uplift the lives of the communities in which […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has expressed its readiness to participate in the proposed local government area election in the state, just as it retreated her her determination to wrestle power from the ruling Peoples Democratic party PDP in 2019. However, as part […]
By Mustapha Abdul Salaam (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Borno State Police Command has confirmed two casualties from the suicide bomb attack which occurred Sunday night at the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID). The Command’s Spokesperson Mr. Victor Isuku, in a message confirmed that he was at the scene of the incident at about 12:05pm Monday. Mr. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Sen. Dino Melaye, representing Kogi West Senatorial district in the National Assembly says the signatures allegedly collected to influence his recall and forwarded to INEC were forged. Addressing newsmen on Sunday in Lokoja, Melaye who said investigations had revealed that even the dead signed the recall across the seven area councils of […]
By Ignatius Okpara ENUGU, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Leadership of the Igbo umbrella body, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has frowned at the failure of security agencies in arresting the Arewa Youths involved in the quit notice recently issued to Igbos resident in the Northern part of Nigeria. President General of the Organization, Chief John Nnia Nwodo […]
RIVERS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has sacked all members of his Executive Council. In a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Electronic Media, Mr. Simeon Nwakaudu, the Governor directed the sacked commissioners to hand over to their respective Permanent Secretaries. The statement partly reads: “Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Justice I. M. Sani of the Federal High Court, Akure has convicted and sentenced one Dr. Martins Olurankinse to ten years imprisonment on a nineteen-count charge bordering on obtaining by false pretence brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Olurankinse ‘s ordeal followed a petition dated July 22, […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The President of the Senate Bukola Saraki has boasted he will again floor the Federal Government (FG) on its appeal against the Code of Conduct Tribunal CCT recent ruling on his alleged false assets declaration trial. CCT Chairman Justice Danladi Umar last week dismissed FG suit against […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has declared Monday, June 26 and Tuesday, 27 as Public Holiday this year’s Eid-el-Fitr celebration. Minister of Interior Lt. General Abdulrahman Dambazau (retd), made the announcement Thursday in Abuja on behalf of FG. Gen. Dambazau enjoined all Muslim faithful and Nigerians in general to use the occasion of the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – – A member of the National Assembly, Sen. Benjamin Uwajumogu, has urged political leaders and other stakeholders to promote only interests that would unite the country. Uwajumogu, who represents Imo North Senatorial District at the Senate, said that all leaders, including traditional rulers, must prevail on young people to desist from creating […]
