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Wednesday, February 10th, 2016
…Berates Supreme Court for not Giving Reasons After Judgments The dust raised by the recent Supreme Court rulings on Akwa Ibom and Rivers States Governorship Elections is yet to settle, as the Nigeria’s foremost civil society coalition, Transition Monitoring Group (TMG), has berated attempt by a section of the country’s judiciary to trivialize the significance […]
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2016
…Disagrees with Fashola’s Road Construction Proposals Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Senate Committee on Works has queried the Federal Ministry of Works over N4billion it gave out to 11 road contractors across the country last year as mobilization fees without any one of them moving to site to construct a meter of […]
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2016
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Senate Committee on Federal Capital Territory, FCT on Wednesday vowed to commence probe of former Ministers of FCT for allegedly violating the masterplan of the nation’s capital. Chairman of the committee, Senator Dino Melaye (APC Kogi West) stated this while briefing newsmen on the reaction of the immediate past […]
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2016
By Niyi Adeyi LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Students of Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH) Wednesday took to the streets in protest against the death of one of their colleagues. The students, who moved round the campus and environs, linked their action to the poor attention paid to the ex-student by the school’s health authority. The late […]
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2016
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu The Economic and Financial crimes commission EFCC, has apprehended a fake Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation NNPC staff,identified as Mr. Raymond Anene, Odika over his alleged involvement in a case of conspiracy and obtaining money by false pretence. Sources at the Enugu zonal office of the Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, hinted on Tuesday […]
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2016
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A plot by a syndicate to steal N4.5 billion from the Federal Government’s Treasury Single Account (TSA) has been foiled by the Directorate of State Services (DSS). The four-man syndicate was about to hack into the Government Integrated Financial Management Information System (GIFMIS) domiciled in the Office of the Accountant-General […]
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2016
Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa state was recently re-elected for another four more years in office. The governor who campaigned rigorously throughout the state on record of his achievements in first term, spoke on a radio show in Yenagoa to dedicate his re-election to a greater call to service to his people. He also spoke […]
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2016
By Ayo Afolabi ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – After a week of embarrassing discoveries of series of errors and dubious allocations by some government agencies in the N6.08trillion 2016 budget estimates, the National Assembly on Tuesday postponed its passage indefinitely. Although, both the Senate and the House of Representatives had penultimate Wednesday fixed the 25th of this month […]
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2016
By Ignatius Okpara, Enugu Enugu state Police Command on Monday nabbed two suspected fraudsters while trying to withdraw money from a third party’s account in one of the old generation banks at Oji council Area of Enugu state. The State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Ebere Amarizu who disclosed to AFRICAN EXAMINER on Tuesday in Enugu, said the suspects […]
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2016
By Abdul Gaffar Bello A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja Tuesday refused the application of the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, requesting the release of his Nigeria and British passports. The documents have been in possession of the Department of State Service (DSS), following […]
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2016
Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has hailed the role being played by the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, headed by Professor of Law and civil rights Activist, Itse Sagay, in the country’s anti-corruption battle. Speaking while receiving members of the Committee at his office in Abuja Tuesday, Alhaji Mohammed stated: ”Bodies like yours… […]
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2016
By Abdul Gaffar Bello BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The recently inaugurated Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello has picked a new Deputy – Simon Achuba. Bello in a letter sent to the State’s House of Assembly Monday, nominated Achuba as his Deputy. The decision followed the refusal of Hon. James Abiodun Faleke’s to become Bello’s […]
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2016
…Says It’s Anti-African Culture By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu Members of the Enugu State House of Assembly, Tuesday turned down a bill seeking Equal Rights and Opportunities for men and women and Other Matters presented before it by one of its female colleague, saying its contents are anti African Culture. The bill, sponsored by Hon. Dame Nkechi Omeje-Ogbu, […]
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2016
The trial of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh at a Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja over alleged diversion of N400 Million, out of the $2.1 Billion arms procurement money resumes Tuesday with another witness testifying against the accused. Metuh has previously admitted he collected certain sum from the […]
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2016
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole, has alleged that original budget of his ministry had been distorted and strange figures smuggled in. The minister made the disclose a week after similar revelation of some unscrupulous Nigerians from the federal civil service paddling strange figures into the 2016 budget […]
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Monday, February 8th, 2016
Lagos, Nigeria (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja on Monday dismissed two applications seeking to stop the prosecution of the two engineers who constructed the collapsed six-storey building at the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) in Ikotun area of Lagos. The collapse of the building, which occurred on September 12, […]
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Monday, February 8th, 2016
By Ayo Balogun As the Nigerian Labour union bodies – Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC), staged a nationwide today, protest against the new electricity tariffs, Nigerians have been called upon to bear the pains and accept the rates. Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN) made the call […]
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Monday, February 8th, 2016
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen The immediate past National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) Monday lost in his bid to stop his trial over alleged misappropriation of N32 Billion arms purchase money at a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. Justice Husseini Baba in his ruling declared that contrary to Dasuki’s allegation, the anti-graft body, […]
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Monday, February 8th, 2016
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja As Senators opposed to Senate President, Bukola Saraki are asking him to step down, another group loyal to him are insisting that the trial is politically motivated, arguing he will not quit. A statement issued by Senators backing Dr Ahmed Lawan for Senate President had asked Saraki to step down because of his trial […]
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Monday, February 8th, 2016
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu Immediate past Governor of Enugu state, Sullivan Chime, and former General Officer Commanding, GOC 82 Division of the Nigerian Army Enugu, Major General Shehu Yusuf, have been dragged to the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offenses Commission (ICPC) by an ex- Commissioner for Transport under Chime, Engr. Luke Mmamel, over […]
