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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016
President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday assured the European Union (EU) that his administration was doing its utmost best to protect the fundamental human rights of persons in the theatre of operations against Boko Haram. Addressing a special session of the parliament, in Strasbourg, France, President Buhari said that his government shared the European Union’s commitment to […]
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016
By Akin Soneyin Following his confession last weekend and Monday on the sinister roles he others played in the June 21, 2014, Ekiti State Governorship Election, a Chief Magistrate Court in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, Wednesday ordered the State Commissioner of Police (CP) to arrest a former State’s Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party […]
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja Leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers state on Wednesday requested a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari to address the party’s state of affairs and its political fortunes in the state. A high-level delegation led by the APC governorship candidate for Rivers state, Dr. Dakuku Peterside made the request during a meeting […]
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja The Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS got a marching order on Wednesday that there is no room for failure over FIRS’s N4.957 trillion tax target for 2016. Speaking at the second day of the 2016 Annual Corporate Strategy Retreat of the FIRS in Abuja, Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, gave the […]
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Owerri OWERRI, IMO STATE, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Angered by the recent abduction of one of their colleagues, a traditional ruler of Nguru Nweafor community,in Aboh Mbaise Council Area of Imo State, Eze Oswald Anyanwu, Monarchs in Owerri geo-political zone have staged a protest on the development. The Royal fathers, had during the […]
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016
By Ayo Balogun, Lagos LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A disaster was averted in Lagos Wednesday as 11 people survived as a helicopter crashed in Lagos The incident which has been confirmed by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) involved a Bristow helicopter en-route Lagos from Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. In the meantime, […]
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016
The immediate past Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Air Marshall Alex Badeh (rtd), is expected today at the premises of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over allegation of involving in arms purchase scandal while in office. Badeh was still in service when the past administration of Goodluck Jonathan released the sum of $2.1 […]
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2016
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal public servants, in particular, Presidency staffers have been warned to desist from exposing official letters to the public. Chief of Staff (COS) to President Muhammadu Buhari, Abba Kyari gave the warning Monday night in Abuja, during send forth, retirement and redeployment of some State House staff. […]
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2016
The Nigeria Supreme Court has upheld the victories of the Delta; Ogun; Oyo and Yobe State Governors – Patrick Okowa; Senator Ibikunle Amosun; Senator Abiola Ajimobi and Ibrahim Gaidam respectively. The judgment which affirmed the rulings of the lower courts – the respective States Election Petition Tribunals as well as Court of Appeals was delivered […]
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2016
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Tuesday condemned in strong terms the recent Boko Haram attacks in Dalori, Borno State, where scores of people were reportedly killed and others injured. Saraki in a statement by his Special Adviser, Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, in Abuja, described the Boko Haram attacks against women and […]
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2016
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Enugu state police command has alerted members of the public especially residents of the area of activities of some suspected internet fraudster syndicate that specialises in hacking of peoples Bank accounts via their Bank Verification Numbers (B.V.N) and Automated Teller Machine ATM cards. The state police public Relations […]
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2016
By Abdul Gaffar Bello The late arrival of the former National Security Adviser (NSA) Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) Tuesday stalled his trial at a Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, over the alleged diversion of the sum of N13 Billion. Dasuki is facing 22 count charge trial alongside former Director of Finance and Administration in […]
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2016
*Bans use of 200 Horse Power Boats BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bayelsa State Government on Monday banned the use of 200 horse power boats and directed security agencies to commence stop and search operations on both land and the waterways. The decision which was reached at the state 35th security council meeting in Yenagoa, and presided over […]
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Monday, February 1st, 2016
By Ignatius Okpara, Abakaliki Tragedy struck last weekend in Ohufu- Ogboji community in Ishielu Council Area of Ebonyi State, as a woman and her seven children were consumed in an early morning fire that occurred at about 3am. AFRICAN EXAMINER gathered that only the octogenarian husband of the late woman, Mr. Sylvanus Nwefuru and one […]
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Monday, February 1st, 2016
By Niyi Adeyi Repentant Niger Delta Militants’ Leader, Mr. Government Ekpemupolo, aka Tompolo has demanded a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos to jettison the bench warrant it issued on him last month, over his refusal to appear before it, to answer allegation of financial related crime preferred against him and others. Following the 40 […]
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Monday, February 1st, 2016
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate through its Committee on Education (Basic and Secondary), on Monday uncovered N10billion hidden in the budgets of parastatals under the Federal Ministry of Education which the officials could not properly explain. At a budget-defence session with the Senate Committee on Education, the Minister of State […]
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Monday, February 1st, 2016
By Funmilayo Omidiji Apparently replying to statement credited to the immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan on weapons procurement, the Federal Government (FG) has fired that the weapons procured by the past Administration for the military to prosecute the war against terrorism were substandard and could not have been responsible for the string of successes recorded […]
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Monday, February 1st, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At his first stop in Strasbourg, France, Buhari will on Wednesday, February 3, address a special session of the European Union Parliament to be attended by members of the executive and legislative arms of the Union. In a statement issued Monday by his aide on Media and publicity, Mr. Femi […]
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Monday, February 1st, 2016
By Ignatius Okpara, Enugu BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), has confirmed that a total of 65 persons lost their lives and 136 sustained various degrees of injuries during weekend attacks by the Boko Haram insurgents on Dalori village in Borno State. Dalori, which is less than 10km from Maiduguri, […]
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Sunday, January 31st, 2016
Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson has re-committed his life to the service of God and humanity, stressing that life is only meaningful only when it is dedicated to the service of God and mankind. According to him, turning 50 years was not by his own power but “by the grace of God and […]
