*Says Alleged Assault On S/Ijaw Chairman Laughable The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State has said that all those who caused the violence which led to wanton loss of lives and property during the cancelled election in Southern Ijaw and other parts of the state on December 5 would face the full weight […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Boko Haram’s violence and attacks against civilians in northeastern Nigeria and its neighboring countries have forced more than 1 million children out of school, UNICEF has said. The number of children missing out on their education due to the conflict adds to the estimated 11 million children of primary school […]
President Mohammadu Buhari has presented N6.08trn 2016 budget proposal to the joint session of the National Assembly even as he promised that the ongoing fuel scarcity will be soon be a thing of the past. In the budget proposal, Buhari earmarked N396bn to education, ministry of health got N296bn while Defence received N294bn. Detail soon… […]
…As Senate Concurs to Self-Regulation by Journalists Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja As President Muhammadu Buhari presents the N6 trillion 2016 budget estimates to a joint session of the National Assembly (NASS) on Tuesday, the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Sunday urged the Federal Lawmakers to make its own share of the budget open to all Nigerians. […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja Ahead of 2016 budget presentation on Tuesday by President Muhamnadu Buhari to the joint session of the National Assembly (NASS), all staff of the legislative complex and organizations running private businesses within the premises, have been directed to stay away from the area today. According to a circular issued to that effect […]
By Abdul Gaffar Bello A Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has reserved ruling on the appeal filed before it by the Taraba State Governor, Darius Ishaku. The leading Judge, Abdul Aboki, Monday declined ruling after listening to adoption of written addresses by counsels to all parties. The State Governor’s victory about two months ago […]
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has uncovered a plot by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State to unleash another terror during the January 9, 2016 rerun in Southern Ijaw Local Governmnt Area and other 101 units across the state. Chieftains of the APC in conjunction with some ex-militants, that were allegedly responsible for […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked the Chairman of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Mr Bassey Dan Abia. Bassey Dan Abia, an indigene of Akwa Ibom state, was appointed by former President Goodluck Jonathan in 2013. Following the development, Mrs Ibim Seminitari, a former commissioner of information in the administration of Rotimi Amaechi, former governor of Rivers […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, has granted bail to the former National Security Adviser, (NSA) Col. (rtd) Sambo Dasuki and four others, standing trial over 19 count charge of money laundering and criminal breach of trust. Others granted bail Monday by Justice Peter Affect were former Dasuki’s Director of Finance […]
President Muhammadu Buhari said Monday in Abuja that his administration was taking urgent and appropriate actions to restore order, due process and probity to the procurement processes of the nation’s Armed Forces. At at a meeting with the British Secretary of State for Defence, Mr. Michael Fallon, President Buhari lamented that the procurement of equipment […]
By Ayo Balogun As the preparation for this year’s Christmas reaches peak, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has warned Nigerians to be conscious that the renewed war against the dreaded Boko Haram by the troops “is not over until it is over”. While noting that the onslaught being launched on the terrorists and which has […]
By Niyi Adeyi The Federal Government has faulted and described as a hoax the casualty’s figures claimed by the ISIS concerning the number of attacks carried out by its Nigeria’s allied, Boko Haram and the number of people it killed in the country in the last two months. A statement issued in Abuja Monday, by […]
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, CNPP has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari, to reinstate the 66 soldiers whose death sentence was recently commuted to 10 years imprisonment. It said her call became necessary in view of revelations emanating from the trial of former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd). […]
*Says APC Propaganda Won’t Go Anywhere The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Restoration Campaign Organisation in Bayelsa State, has described as outright lies and false propaganda, claims by the All Progressives Congress (APC) that Governor Henry Seriake Dickson has stopped December salaries of civil servants. The RCO also denied buying up voter cards ahead of the […]
Key political actors under the aegis of Stakeholders in the All Progressives Congress in Kogi West have called on the Kogi State governor-elect, Alhaji Yahaya Bello and the national leadership of the party to accept a replacement for Abiodun Faleke. According to them, their demand became pertinent following the refusal of Abiodun Faleke to accept the […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The death sentences by firing squad passed on 66 soldiers in January and March 2015 by separate General Court Martials have been commuted to 10 years imprisonment each. Acting Director of Army Public Relations, Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman made this public in a statement he issued Saturday. Army recalled that […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Pro- Shiite jihadists have hacked the official website of the Lagos State Government, www.lagosstate.gov.ng and posted messages describing the Nigerian Government, United States, Israel and others as state sponsors of terrorism. The group posted the message probably in retaliation for the arrest of leader of the Shiite Islamic Sect, Zakzaky. The message […]
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted bail to the former National Security Adviser (NSA) Col. Sambo Dasuki and four others standing trial over the misappropriation of the sum of $2.1 Billion arms money. Others accused granted bail Friday by Justice Hussien Baba-Yusuf included a former Director in the NSA office, Shuaibu Salisu, […]
By Ayo Balogun, Abuja BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has nullified the entire election which produced Mr. Udom Emmanuel as the Governor of Akwa Ibom State, South South Nigeria. In a lead judgment on the parallel appeal filed by the respondent and candidate of the ruling APC, Chief Umana […]
By Ayo Balogun, Abuja BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Akwa Ibom State Governor, Mr. Udom Emmanuel has lost his appeal challenging the judgment of the state Governorship Election Petition Tribunal which ordered fresh elections in 18 local governments area of the state. The five-man panel of the appeal court sitting in Abuja dismissed Governor Emmanuel’s […]
