(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari has left Nigeria for London, United Kingdom, to visit her husband who has been sick and flown out of Nigeria since May 7. According to a statement by her spokesperson, Bisi Olumide-Ajayi, the President’s wife thanked Nigerians who have been praying for her husband’s […]
OSUN, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The inquest recently set up by the Osun State Government to unravel the cause of late Isiaka Adeleke’s death has affirmed that the pioneer Executive Governor of the South West State died due to drug overdose. In his ruling last Thursday, the Coroner Mr. Olusegun Ayilara, after listening to the […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As the country marks its 2nd Democracy Day anniversary under the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration, former Vice President and chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Atiku Abubakar has stressed democracy and representative government remain the ”best and only hope of the country”. In a press […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has rejected May 29 as Nigeria’s democracy day, describing it is as “fraudulent and unrealistic.” Prof Ishaq Akintola, a Director of the group in a statement explained that May 29 was picked by the last military regime of General Abdul Salaam Abubakar because it marked the day […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Acting President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo Monday promised that the present administration will increase its investment on agriculture, power, and industrial sectors in the next two years to boost the economy. Prof. Osinbajo made the promise in the second Democracy Day anniversary special broadcast of President Muhammadu Buhari’s led-administration In […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A political movement, Coalition for Truth and Justice, on Sunday said the leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kogi State, calling on Governor Yahaya Bello to resign over alleged irregularities by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the registration of voters, were feasting on irrelevant issues. The organisation, which […]
From IGNATIUS OKPARA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Speaker of the Enugu state children’s Parliament, Miss Nkem Oragwu, has expressed appreciation to Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, for passing the child’s Right Act into law, after it lingered for over 16 years, even as she harped on its full implementation by relevant stakeholders. While also applauding the United Nation’s […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Africa is undeterred by the failures of the past and the continent is motivated by the incredible energy and talent of its bustling youthful population, according to Acting President Yemi Osinbajo Prof. Osinbajo spoke today at the G7 Summit special outreach forum on Africa with selected African nations and leaders including Nigeria, […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Enugu state has experienced another shock, as a former chairman of the party in Udi Council Area of the state, Chief Donald Nnadi, defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) with his numerous supporters, just as immediate past Governor of the […]
Photo caption: (L-R) Nigerian internet scammers: Rasaq Raheem, Oladimeji Seun Ayelotan, Femi Alexander Mewase (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Three Nigerian internet fraudsters who befriended many of their victims on dating sites have been handed down huge sentences by a Mississippi court after making tens of millions of dollars from their schemes. Oladimeji Seun Ayelotan, 30, was sentenced […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday tendered details of correspondences between DAAR Investment and Holdings Limited, Office of the National Security Adviser, ONSA and Bureau of Public Procurement, BPP, to the effect that Raymond Dokpesi received money to the tune of N2.1billion from ONSA. The documents were tendered by […]
By Ayo Balogun, Abuja (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate has finally passed the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) into law, ending the controversy that has trailed the bill for several years. As passed, the bill scrapped the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and established three other agencies. According to the bill, National Petroleum Company (NPC) and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Labour Party has described as a fluke, the reported release of 82 female students of Government Secondary School, Chibok who were said to have been abducted by Boko Haram insurgents on April 14 2014. According to the LP, the government should expect the wrath of God for deceiving Nigerians and manipulating […]
Photo caption: Anambra state governor Willie Obiano From Ignatius Okpara Awka (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Progressive Peoples Alliance, PPA, gubernatorial candidate in the November 18th, 2017 Anambra state governorship election, Chief Godwin Ezeemo, has dragged Governor Willie Obiano and the state government to court over N9 million fee slammed on each aspirant for the display […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bayelsa Network of Progressives has described as uncharitable, statement credited to the Bayelsa State Governor, Mr. Seriake Dickson, describing the six years of the Presidency of Dr Goodluck Jonathan, as a waste to the ijaw Nation. The group in a statement issued in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State and signed by its Chairman, Mr. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Nigerian-born church pastor was shot to death in Indianapolis and police are continuing to search for his killer. The murder took place over the weekend at an apartment complex near 10th Street and I-465 on the city’s west side. Friends and neighbors say the 66-year-old victim, Oluwadayomi Epenusi, had only recently […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Supreme Court on Monday struck out the Ali Bonu-Sheriff faction of the opposition PDP’s application requesting to quash the appeal before it filed by the rival faction, headed by Senator Ahmed Makarfi. Makarfi’s faction had lost February 17, 2017 at the Appeal Court Port Harcourt division, which validated Bonu-Sheriff […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The 82 rescued Chibok school girls have been reunited with their parents on Saturday in Abuja in an emotion-laden occasion. Mr Joe Mutah, the Chief Press Secretary to the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja. Mutah said that the girls were earlier reunited […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Army has denied allegation by the Nnamdi Kanu led Independent peoples of Biafra IPOB that soldiers molested and arrested its women who were holding meeting at Abiriba in Abia State, South- East Nigeria at the weekend. A statement signed by Deputy Director Army Public Relations 82 […]
LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered permanent forfeiture of the sum of N449, 597,000 found in April inside a Bureau DE Change in Victoria Island, Lagos. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on getting the hint about the huge sum lodged in the abandoned BDG office […]
