ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government (FG) has constituted a 10- man Technical Committee to look into the “synergizing and harmonizing” the mode and procedure for prompt payment of pension benefits in the Public Service in Nigeria. Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HCSF), Mrs. Winifred Oyo-Ita announced this Tuesday in […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria’s Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami has affirmed that Boko Haram’s capacity to hold territories has been totally decimated. He made this Monday in his address to the 25th Session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, in Vienna, Austria. The Session is holding from 23rd to […]
Bayelsa State Governor, Henry Seriake Dickson has described the setting up and immediate inauguration of a seven-member National Caretaker Committee of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) as a good development. According to him, such was a right step towards repositioning the party for the 2019 general elections. A statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Daniel Iworiso-Markson, […]
By Niyi Adeyi LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Lagos State Chief Magistrate, Mrs. Bola Osunsanmi, has granted the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) application to hold further, a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode in its custody. Fani Kayode has been held by the EFCC two weeks ago and he is being investigated […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The 2013 audit report Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has suspected sharp practices by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and its sub units which involved up to N378.67 billion not appropriated to the Federation account. Minister of Solid Minerals and NEITI Board Chairman Dr. Kayode Fayemi, exposed details […]
ADO-EKITI, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, has banned grazing and rearing of cattle in the State. Consequently, the Governor Monday in a press statement directed the residents of the State who are interested in cattle farming to start their private ranch. Fayose took the new measure further, when he alerted […]
LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER)-President Muhammadu Buhari has officially commissioned the Lagos State Emergency Authority in Cappa Oshodi. Mr President is currently being represented by his Deputy Professor Yemi Osinbajo on a two-day working visit to the State. Governor Akinwunmi Ambode in his address at the commissioning, declared that the facility which is the first of […]
President Muhammad Buhari has been advised to disregard calls on him to sack the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami. This advice to the president was given by Mr Philip Agbese, national coordinator of a group, Stand Up Nigeria,SUN during a press conference in Abuja on Sunday. “We appeal to President Muhammadu […]
A group of armed youths from Ikienghenbiri community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State have been arrested for allegedly vandalising a major oil pipeline with dynamites. Reports say, the group, which was led by Suoyou, Iyelawei and Fyneboy vandalised the pipeline along the Azuzuama – Ikienghenbiri axis of the trunk line conveying […]
By Ayo Balogun, Lagos LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has canceled his much publicized two days visit to Lagos State as he will now send Vice President Yemi Osibanjo to represent him. The president’s visit would have made him the first sitting president to embark on official state visit to Lagos in […]
…Former Acting Chairman, Modu Sheriff Cajoled By Seun Adebosin/Ganiyu Nasirudeen BAILTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is now one house divided within itself, as factions within it, seem not to be compliant with one another and two parallel National conventions held Saturday in Abuja and Port Harcourt, the Rivers State […]
PORT HARCOURT, RIVERS – The National Convention of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on Saturday dissolved its National Executive Council, National Working Committee (NWC) and set up a seven-man Caretaker Committee. The motion to dissolve the party’s NEC and NWC was moved by Mr Austin Opara, a former Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives and seconded […]
As the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) holds its factional national convention in Port Harcourt Saturday, one member of the State Working Committee of the PDP that will surely be absent from the event is Mr. Samuel Johnson Okpoko, Rivers State Secretary of the PDP. Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) are grilling Mr. Okpoko, for […]
Chibok parents refuted the Nigerian Army’s report that the second rescued girl, Serah Luka, was among the 219 kidnapped by Boko Haram on April 14, 2014. A girl, Amina Ali, believed to be among the Chibok schoolgirls, was announced rescued from the hands of the terrorists on Wednesday. The army had again said in a […]
LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal High Court Lagos on Friday refused to vacate its Order not to conduct election into offices of the National Secretary and National Auditor at the PDP convention holding in Port Harcourt on Friday. The judge further adjourned further hearing on the case till May 24th. Justice A. B. […]
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – In our bid to contribute to the progress of Nigeria and Africa through the examination of contemporary socio-political developments, Global Village Extra (GVE) will host a three-day seminar from 28-30 October, 2016. The event, the inaugural edition, will hold on 28 October, with a paper titled: Africa Rising: Myth or […]
As Retiring HOS Fingered, Implicated in The Scam BAUCHI, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A mind boggling staff scandal has been uncovered within the Bauchi State Government. Due to the development, 26,000 ghost workers, representing about 25 per cent of total 105,000 purportedly State workers, have been discovered. The exposed scam has resulted to suspension, by […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari Friday engaged in a telephone conversation with his Egyptian counterpart, President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to commiserate with him and the people of Egypt on yesterday’s EgyptAir crash which claimed 66 lives. While condoling the Egyptian leader on the loss, President Buhari assured President Al-Sisi and the people […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A high level delegation of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and National Assembly (NASS) has met with the striking faction of Comrade Ayuba Waba-led Nigeria Labour Congress afternoon with the promise by the labour leader, (Waba) to look critically into the delegation’s demands. Comrade Waba while reacting to the […]
By Niyi Adeyi LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has slammed five years jail term against a former Director-General (DG) of the Nigerian Maritime Administration Safety Agency (NIMASA), Mr. Raymond Omatseye, over N1.5 billion contract fraud. The former NIMASA boss was arraigned in court by the Economic and Financial Crimes […]
