(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has appealed a court ruling that acquitted the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, of charges of corruption and false declaration of assets. The Court of Conduct Tribunal last week cleared the Senate President of 13-count charge of corruption levelled against him. The government yesterday at the Court of Appeal Abuja […]
The petition to recall Senator Dino Melaye from the Nigeria Senate received a major boost on Wednesday as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) took delivery of 6 bag-load of signatures from Kogi west senatorial district. African Examiner gathered that the total signature received is put at about 188,588 out of the 360,098 voters, representing […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The youth wing of the apex Igbo socio cultural body, Ohanaeze Youth Council, Worldwide, OYC, has petitioned the United Nations demanding special protection for the Igbo people around the Northern part of Nigeria. They equally called for the commencement of steps towards a referendum in Igbo land to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A witness in Senator Danjuma Goje’s alleged N25 billion fraud case on Tuesday told a Federal High Court that no kobo out of a N5 billion loan facility Access Bank gave Gombe State entered the former governor’s account. Goje, who served as governor of Gombe State, has since 2012 been facing an […]
*May Sack Commissioners Loyal to Ex-Governor Chime, now APC Member From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Fear has gripped serving Commissioner and Special Advisers in Enugu state, over alleged plan by Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, to reshuffle his cabinet any moment from now. African Examiner reliably gathered from a Source close to the administration who […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has confirmed that about 16 people were killed Sunday night during suicide bomb attack which took place in Maiduguri suburb, the Borno State capital. NEMA’s Spokesperson Mr. Abdulkadir Ibrahim in a statement issued Monday, further confirmed that it was a twin bomb attack. Mr. specified that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed continuation of former Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr. Olisa Metuh alleged money laundering trial for Tuesday June 20, 2017. Metuh’s trial has been put on hold for about six months due to application filed before the apex court for stay of proceeding. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Consistent with its commitment to build the next generation of sustainable Nigerian businesses, Fidelity Bank Plc, top Nigerian lender in strategic partnership with Empretec Nigerian Foundation has just concluded a graduate entrepreneurship training programme for 200 youths in Cross River State. This initiative is part of the next phase of the Bank’s […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government of Nigeria has ordered investigation into educational qualification of members of staff of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Uguru Usani, gave the directive when he visited the Commission’s office on Friday in Port Harcourt. He expressed optimism the investigation would expose ghost […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu Nigeria (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The General Superintendent (GS), Deeper Life Christian Bible church worldwide, Pastor W.F Kumuyi, has stressed the need for national unity and peaceful co-existence among Nigerians, saying the present clamour for secession and disintegration by some segment of the country is not the solution to the problem confronting […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The European Union (EU) Commission on Thursday in Brussels, Belgium, announced a support package of €143 million to help the early recovery and reconstruction needs in the North East of Nigeria. The package is for the provision of basic services including energy, education and health, job creation, strengthening monitoring and evaluation systems […]
Photo caption: Nigeria’s Senate President, Bukola Saraki By Ganiyu Nasirudeen ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – After a long delay, the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) has acquitted and discharged the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, on the false asset declaration and related offences trial. CCT Chairman, Justice Danladi Umar Wednesday discharged Saraki in his ruling […]
Photo Caption: Nigeria’s Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday met with Leaders of Thought from the Northern region at the State House, Abuja. PHOTOS BY: NOVO ISIORO. (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria’s Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has warned those persons promoting hate speeches or making pronouncements that can cause violence or disruption of lives and property […]
By Ayo Balogun, Abuja (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has vowed to extradite Nigeria’s former attorney general and justice minister, Mohammed Adoke, to face prosecution in the controversial Malabu oil $1.1 billion scam. The money was said to have been paid by oil firms into a Nigerian government account in […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A total of 24 suspected members of the Boko Haram insurgents have been arrested by the Nigerian Army in Auchi, Edo state, South -South Nigeria, the traditional ruler and Ataru of the community, Aliru Momoh has hinted. He made this known to newsmen in his palace at Auchi, […]
Photo caption: Nigeria’s Acting President Yemi Osinbajo flanked by (L-R)the Senate President Dr Bukola Saraki, Speaker Yakubu Dogara, SSAP to NASS (Senate) Senator Ita Enang and SSAP to NASS (House) Hon Kawu, Minister of Budget, Senator Udo Udoma and Chief of Staff Mallam Abba Kyari during the Signing of 2017 Budget on Monday jUNE 12, […]
*Wants the Acting President to rise to the Challenge (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The President General of Ndigbo apex body, the Ohanaeze, Chief John Nnia Nwodo has said that the continued agitation of Igbo youths across the country is a byproduct of persistent injustice and marginalization arising from bad leadership and unjust structure of the country’s […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Following a controversy over who to sign the Nigeria’s 2017 Appropriation bill into law, Presidency has said ailing President Mohammadu Buhari has given the Acting President Yemi Osinbajo go ahead to sign the bill into law. When Buhari was proceeding on medical treatment in London on May 7, 2017 he transmitted a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The former Military Governor of Katsina State Col John Yayaha Madaki (rtd) has risen in stout support of the Emir of Katsina Alhaji Abdulmumini Kabir, who has vowed to sacrifice himself to protect Igbos residing in the State. The Emir, who was addressing leaders of the Igbo community last Friday in response […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has sworn in veteran journalist and former Deputy Editor of The Sun Newspaper, Mr Daniel Alabrah as his new Special Adviser on Public Affairs. Alabrah who hails from Agbere in Sagbama local government area of the state takes over from High Chief Don Abendego Evarada who […]
