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Friday, December 23rd, 2016
PORT HARCOURT, RIVERS STATE (AFRICAN EXAMINER)- RiverS state governor, Nyesome Wike has hit back at the Department of state security services (DSS) saying no federal agencies can silent him into defending his people. The governor spoke in Port Harcourt when he met with the Rivers State Elders Council of Ministers (RISECOM). His words: “None of […]
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Friday, December 23rd, 2016
LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The insolvency challenge presently confronting Heritage Bank is expected, given the unethical conducts by its topmost management members, thus it might require an extraordinary ”midas touch” for the commercial bank to get through its present mess, experts have declared. When AFRICAN EXAMINER further researched into the prevailing misfortune of the […]
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Friday, December 23rd, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – South African GSM giant MTN has sacked a member of its top management staff (name withheld). According to Saharareporters, the development followed alleged bribe which MTN team led by the sacked staff offered President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief of Staff (COS), Mr. Abba kyari to negotiate the $5.2 billion fine imposed on […]
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Friday, December 23rd, 2016
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Army has raised an alarm that some terrorists have escaped from samibisa forest to various parts of the country. Acting Director Army Public Relations Brigadier General Sani Kukasheka Usman stated this in a statement Thursday night. The Army urged the public, especially those in Borno, Yobe […]
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Friday, December 23rd, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) on Thursday said it had deployed 36,000 personnel comprising regular and special marshals across the country to ensure smooth traffic during the yuletide. The Corps Marshal, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, disclosed this while addressing newsmen in Abuja according to Bisi Kazeem, Head, Media Relations and […]
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2016
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government (FG) has declared Monday December 26 and Tuesday 27, 2016 as Public Holidays to mark this year’s Christmas and Boxing Day. Similarly, Monday, January 2, 2017 has been declared as New Year holiday. In a statement signed Wednesday by the Acting Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry […]
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former Delta State Governor, Mr. James Ibori, has been reportedly released from the UK prison, after serving four years and eight months jail term. Ibori was accused in February 2012 and convicted for stealing $250m, the sum belonging to Delta State Government. He admitted to fraud estimated at £50m. […]
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2016
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Umuahia UMUAHIA NIGERIA, (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Leaders of the Organized Labour Unions in Abia State, South- East Nigeria, have called on governor Okezie Ikpeazu, to as a matter of urgency sack the management of the state owned University Teaching Hospital, ABSUTH, Abia Polytechnic, and the state’s transport company, ABIALINE, over the inability […]
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2016
LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Director of the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) Professor Ishaq Akintola, has raised an alarm that four suspected gunmen visited his home on Sunday, December 18, 2016 with attempt on his life. The suspects who arrived around 6 pm, according to a statement issued in Lagos by the group’s General […]
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2016
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government (FG) has released the postings of the recently confirmed 47 career Ambassadors nominated by President Muhammadu Buhari. The postings released Wednesday by FG include: Abia: Obinna Chukwuemeka Agbugba (Togo), Adamawa: Salisu Umaru (Senegal), Paragalda Ilyasu Audu (Turkey), Akwa Ibom: Inyan Udo-Inyang (Gabon), Anambra: Okeke Vivian Nwunaku (Spain), […]
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2016
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned the immediate past Attorney General Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Adoke (SAN) in a Federal High Court in Abuja, over his alleged role in the $1.1 billion OPL Malabu oil scandal. Mr. Adoke was alleged to have diverted […]
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2016
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday afternoon met behind the closed doors with the Senate President, Bukola Saraki. The reason for the enclosed meeting was not disclosed. Still, if the Senate Leader Ali Ndume Monday’s visit to the Aso Villa and similar exclusive meeting with President Buhari as well as […]
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2016
YENAGOA, BAYELSA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – For the first time in about five months, the Bayelsa State Government on Monday declared N3.5 billion as balance of funds available for spending at the end of November, 2016. In October, like in the three previous months, the state recorded a deficit balance of N160.4 million, mainly due to the shortfall in […]
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2016
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Following the industrial action embarked upon by the staff of Arik Air, many travelers Tuesday were stranded at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. The aviation unions with the carrier had hinted about the commencement of a joint strike with effect from today (Tuesday), sequel to the airline’s failure to pay seven […]
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2016
The Bayelsa State government on Monday refuted insinuations that its indigenes on scholarship in Ghana were denied access to their hostels and stopped from writing their semester exams. A statement by Mr Jeremiah Owoupele, Senior Special Assistant to Governor Seriake Dickson on Scholarships Welfare, noted that the office had been in constant touch with the […]
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2016
A coalition of students’ leaders in Ogbia, Bayelsa State, on Monday lauded what it described as the ‘unrivalled attention’ given to the development of the education in the state by Governor Seriake Dickson. The youths who spoke during a visit to the Special Assistant to the governor on Students’ Affairs for the area, Mr Henry […]
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Monday, December 19th, 2016
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate seems to have reversed itself on the raging controversies surrounding the rejection of confirmation of the acting Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Chairman, Mr. Ibrahim Magu and calling for sack of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr. Babachir David Lawal. […]
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Monday, December 19th, 2016
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has called for cooperation between the executive and legislative arms of government, just as he felicitated with the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki on the occasion of his 54th birthday anniversary today – Monday, December 19, 2016. In his goodwill message to the celebrant, the President described […]
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Saturday, December 17th, 2016
ABUJA, 16 December 2016 – The Government of Norway has donated $11.5 million, (approximately 3.6 billion Naira) to improve basic education and support girls and women who have been victims of sexual violence by Boko Haram in the conflict-affected northeast Nigerian states of Borno, Yobe, Adamawa and Gombe. The funding is part of the Safe Schools Initiative […]
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Friday, December 16th, 2016
LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has described the rejection by the Senate of the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Magu as an act of vengeance and a shameless anti-people decision. It subsequently declared that the rejection of Magu’s appointment by Senate was a […]
