From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) The Enugu State Police Command has confirmed it has commenced investigation and manhunt of killers of the female police orderly attached to the State’s Deputy Governor Mrs. Cecilia Ezeilo, who was shot dead around 10 pm by unknown gunmen on Tuesday night in Enugu, the State capital. The Command’s […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The House of Representatives on Tuesday received the report of 2017 Budget proposal from its Committee on Appropriation for final consideration. The appropriation committee increased the figures to N7.44 trillion, representing an addition of about N143 billion to the one presented by President Muhammadu Buhari on Dec. 14, 2016. Presenting the report […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – In its first thirty nine years as an independent country , military dictators ruled Nigeria for twenty nine years. They were years when the country was almost drowned in rivers of blood including a three-year Civil War which claimed over two million lives. Professionalism and esprit de corps departed the military to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A political movement, National Forum of Democrats (NFD), has described as insincere, comments by the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, over the health challenges of President Muhammadu Buhari saying the words were meant to please the President “but lack emotional depth.” The organisation demanded “an […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Five communities currently being ravaged by alarming erosion in Anambra state, South East Nigeria, have cried out over the disaster, calling on the state governments to come to their rescue, just as they listed conditions for the support of Obiano’s 2nd term re-election ambition. The communities include, Ufuma, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government of Nigeria has described as indecent, inhuman and ill-timed the statement credited to a faction of the PDP criticizing the process that led to the release of the 82 Chibok Girls last weekend. In a statement issued in Abuja Monday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, […]
*Osinbajo to Function as Ag. President (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Following his protracted ill health, President Muhammadu Buhari has proceeded to London for follow-up medical consultation with his doctors. A statement from his media aide, Femi adesina said the president had planned to leave Sunday afternoon, but decided to tarry a bit, due to the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UNICEF has expressed delight over Saturday’s release of over 80 of the girls abducted by Boko Haram insurgents at their school in Chibok over three years ago. Pernille Ironside, Acting Representative of UNICEF Nigeria says: “It is heartening to know that the girls will be returning to their families who have been […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – One thousand, one hundred and eighteen days after their abduction by terror sect Boko Haram, freedom yesterday came the way of 82 more of the Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, students. The girls were among the 227 kidnapped from their dormitory on the night of April 14, 2014. They were let […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Amidst controversies on the health status of President Muhammdu Buhari, a pressure group under the aegis of Coalition of Civil Society Organizations for Good Governance, (CCSOGG), on Saturday described the demands for his resignation as misplaced. According to CCSOGG, “no organ of state is currently suffering directly or indirectly as a result […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Enugu state governor, Sullivan Chime has formally dumped the People’s Democratic Party for the All Progressives Congress, APC at a ceremony in Udi local council of the state. Chime told the gathering he was crossing with thousands of his supporters to the ruling party as the the National Chairman of the APC, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Department of State Services has arrested Mr Ifeanyi Ubah, Managing Director of Capital Oil and Gas Limited over alleged stolen of petroleum products worth about eleven billion naira. A statement by Tony Opuiyo of the DSS, said the arrest was sequel to Uba’s engagement in acts of economic sabotage which include […]
Photo caption: Dr. Lemon A. Ikpea, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Lee Engineering and Construction Company (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The chief executive officer of Lee Engineering and Construction Company, Dr. Leemon Ikpea, has urged the Federal Government and stakeholders in the oil and gas sector, in the country to ensure that Nigeria remains a leading nation in the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – In an apparent moves to douse tension about his ill health and his whereabout, President Mohammadu Buhari today attended the Friday Muslim Jumaat service at Aso rock mosque, Abuja. African Examiner correspondent reports that in about four weeks the president has not been seen in public nor attending public functions and weekly […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has demanded the immediate resignation of the State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, for constituting himself a nuisance and for belittling the high office that he occupies. The party made the demand in a statement issued on Friday in Port Harcourt, in which […]
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu The recently released Leader of the rebellious Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu on Thursday arrived Enugu state, where he is expected to meet with his supporters. African Examiner reports that this is the first time the pro-Biafra agitator is stepping his feet on the South-East, days after he […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER – The GIPLC which is expected to cater for about 1000 patients, in 3 states, over 3 weeks, kickoff on April 25th and is expected to end 17th May 2017. The non-governmental, not-for-profit charity organisation, which was founded in 2006 to cater for orphans and vulnerable children in Nigeria, has launched this new […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside, has declared that the Ease of Doing Business Initiative programme, coordinated by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, is yielding fruits particularly in the maritime sector as red tapes and bottlenecks which hitherto mitigated against investment in the sector, have […]
By Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has obtained the conviction of one Adekunle Yakub Asuni who has been sentenced to four years imprisonment without any option of fine by Justice I. B. Gafai of the Federal High Court Akwa Anambra State for attempting to transfer the sum […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has sounded it loud and clear that anyone who is opposed to the relocation of Oil companies to the Niger Delta as directed by the Federal Government, is clearly against the peace and stability of the region. A statement issued on Thursday by his Chief Press Secretary, Daniel […]
