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Saturday, December 12th, 2015
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Thisday newspaper, Nduka Obaigbena is in trouble following a disclosure that he received additional N120 million payment in March 2015 on behalf of the Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN) and 12 newspapers who asked to be compensated for “unlawful seizure and stoppage of circulation […]
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Friday, December 11th, 2015
(NAN) – The Northern Nigeria Development Company (NNDC) on Friday, said it would begin oil and gas exploration in the north- east in the first quarter of 2016. Chairman of the company, Alhaji Bashir Dalhatu, stated this while briefing journalists at NNDC’s 47th Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Kaduna. Dalhatu said the company was collaborating […]
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Friday, December 11th, 2015
Crisis is imminent in the Rivers State Police Command, as its officers plan to protest against non-payment of their last four months salaries. Investigations carried out by Frontiers News revealed that over 500 police officers and men of the command have not received their September, October and November 2016 salaries and no one is coming […]
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Friday, December 11th, 2015
The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Friday voided the elections that produced two Senators From Rivers State – Osinakachukwu Idoezu (Rivers South-West Senatorial District) and John Olaka-Nwogo (Rivers South-East). The court, in a judgment, held among others, that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) failed, in its conduct of the elections, to comply substantially […]
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Friday, December 11th, 2015
By Niyi Adeyi The Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Thisday Newspapers Group, Mr. Nduka Obaigbena has opened up that the sum of N420, 000,000 he received from the office of the embattled former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. (rted) Sambo Dasuki were compensation for attack on his Abuja office by the dreaded Boko Haram terrorists, as […]
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Friday, December 11th, 2015
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, Friday upheld the Election of the Senate Minority Leader and former Akwa Ibom State Governor, Godswill Akpabio. In a unanimous ruling by the three-man panel led by Justice Moshood Oredola, the appellate court quashed the appeal filed by Chief Inibehe […]
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Friday, December 11th, 2015
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Bayelsa State Elders Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and paramount rulers from various communities in Southern Ijaw LGA! have condemned the violence that marred the conduct of the rescheduled governorship election in the area. The Chief Press Secretary to Governor of Bayelsa State, Daniel woriso-Markson, in a […]
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Thursday, December 10th, 2015
The Justice Ali Gumel-led panel of the Court of Appeal set aside the judgment of the National/State Legislative Houses Election Petition Tribunal in Apo, Abuja, which had dismissed the petition by the All Progressives Congress’ candidate, Andrew Uchendi against Sekibo’s election. The appeal court also delivered similar judgments setting aside the election of two other […]
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Thursday, December 10th, 2015
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Senate on Thursday descended on the Director General of the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Dr. Paul Orhii, for allegedly violating civil service rule with placement of a junior officer above her senior as Deputy Director in the organization. This followed a petition […]
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Thursday, December 10th, 2015
The leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Alhaji Mujahid Asari-Dokubo on Thursday gave the Federal Government one week ultimatum within it should hands off alleged plan to rig the governorship election in Bayelsa State and install the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Timipre Sylva, as winner. The ex-militant in a statement issued in […]
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Thursday, December 10th, 2015
By Ayo Balogun, Lagos BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Supreme Court sitting in Abuja on Thursday fixed 26 February, 2016 for judgment in the appeal filed by the General Overseer of the Christian Praying Assembly, Rev. Chukwuemeka Ezeugo, a.k.a Reverend King challenging the judgments of a Lagos High Court sentencing him to death by […]
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Thursday, December 10th, 2015
By Ayo Balogun A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos Wednesday, slammed life sentence and 24 years imprisonments on two drug convicts. The convicts – Messrs Aluagwu Lawrence, 32, caught with 220 grammes of cannabis got life imprisonment with hard labour while Ameachi Igwe, 37 was found in possession of 2.7 grammes of cocaine was […]
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Thursday, December 10th, 2015
By Eric Ojo Ambassador of France to Nigeria, Mr. Denys Gauer has expressed his worries over the spate of human rights violations in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation. The French Ambassador, said cases of serious violations of fundamental human rights reported across the country in the last twelve months, are very disturbing and mind-boggling. Speaking […]
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Thursday, December 10th, 2015
By Ignatius Okpara, Umuahia Crisis is brewing in the Abia State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over alleged marginalization and neglect of members by Governor Victor Okezie Ikpeazu. AFRICAN EXAMINER gathered that some members of the State Working Committee (SWC) and party stalwarts are embittered with the Governor, who they accused of tactically […]
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Thursday, December 10th, 2015
President Muhammadu Buhari is scheduled to deliver a keynote address Friday, December 11, 2015, at the 15th session of the Osigwe Anyiam-Osigwe lecture series at the International Conference Centre (ICC) FCT, Abuja. Mr. President, according to his SA on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adeshina, will be speaking on topic: “Incorruptibility: A Spiritual Premise for […]
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Thursday, December 10th, 2015
By Niyi Adeyi Amidst messy controversy on the arms purchase scandal, the immediate past Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of Economy, Dr. (Mrs) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has finally admitted she transferred the sum of $322 Million, part of recovered late Gen Sanni Abacha’s loot to the former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col (rted). Sambo Dasuki. […]
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Wednesday, December 9th, 2015
President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that the return of persons displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency to their home communities will begin next year. Speaking Wednesday in Abuja at an audience with a delegation from the International Rescue Committee (IRC) led by former British Foreign Minister, Mr. David Miliband, Buhari promised that his administration would […]
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Wednesday, December 9th, 2015
The Lagos State Government on Wednesday warned residents to desist from holding open processions during the yuletide season, urging them to limit such gatherings to the enclosure of the venue. Briefing Government House Correspondents shortly after an emergency State Security Council meeting, the State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni, said the Council decided to […]
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Wednesday, December 9th, 2015
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – civil rights organisation, Lawyers in Defence of Democracy, has asked the Federal Government to investigate the alleged role of security agencies, particularly the military “in the whole episode of electoral corruption in Southern Ijaw” during the Bayelsa State governorship election. Such investigation, it advised, must also look at the role […]
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Wednesday, December 9th, 2015
A Non-Governmental Organization, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has commended the Federal Government (FG) over the submission of N500 billion Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) for social welfare package. The package targeted at students, former youth corps members and the vulnerable in society and which is part of the proposed N6.04 trillion 2016 fiscal year, […]
