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Tuesday, October 6th, 2015
By AYO AFOLABI, ABUJA BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Finally, the senate has released the list of President Buhari’s ministerial nominees submitted to it last week by the president. Former Governor of Rivers state, Chibuike Amaechi, a strong backer of the president’s election is one of the nominees. Also, former governor of Lagos Babatunde Fashola […]
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Sunday, October 4th, 2015
President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday visited victims of the Friday’s attack that rocked Kuje and Nyanya area of Abuja. Buhari who was accompanied to the National Hospital by Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State and some top government officials promised the survivors that Federal Government will settle their medical bills. Our correspondent reports that the […]
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Sunday, October 4th, 2015
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Rivers State Chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, says it has uncovered a plot by Governor Nyesom Wike and the PDP in Rivers State to use both the traditional and new media to blackmail the APC as using Federal might to intimidate PDP witnesses at the Rivers State Governorship […]
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Sunday, October 4th, 2015
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Fresh crisis is believed to be tearing apart the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State as the choice of who becomes the deputy to the the governorship candidate, Timipre Sylva, is causing unease among party leaders and the nucleus of the campaign organization. Sylva had earlier promised in his […]
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Sunday, October 4th, 2015
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has urged Nigerians not to despair and give in to terrorists’ blackmail, which he said, is the Boko Haram’s psychological tool for intimidating and forcing citizens into surrender and inaction. Reacting to the latest multiple bomb blasts in the suburbs of Abuja, the first since April 2014, the former Vice […]
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Saturday, October 3rd, 2015
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned as barbaric and cowardly, Friday night’s bomb attacks in Nyanya and Kuje satellite towns of Abuja, Nigeria. PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, in a statement on Saturday said the party was shocked by the news of the gruesome attacks in the […]
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Saturday, October 3rd, 2015
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Solomon Arase has ordered massive deployment of policemen on a stop-and-search of vehicles in and around Abuja following Friday’s bombing of Nyanya and Kuje area in the Federal Capital Territory by terrorists. The IGP assured residents and the entire country not to panic as the […]
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Saturday, October 3rd, 2015
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Emmanuel Philips, a former officer of the Department of State Security, DSS who was apparently discharged from service came to the Rivers State Elections Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abuja today, claiming he provided security in 10 local governments which included Port Harcourt, Obio/Akpo, Emohua, Akuku-Toru, Asari-Toru, Abua/Odual, Ahoada East, Ahoada […]
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Saturday, October 3rd, 2015
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A plot to rig the forthcoming elections in Kogi and Bayelsa State has been uncovered, a group, Peace Network Initiative (PNI) claimed on Saturday. The advocacy group promoting non-violence, peace and development, said in a statement in Abuja that some powerful vested interests were on top of the plot to […]
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Saturday, October 3rd, 2015
*20 Killed, 40 Injured In the Attack Two bomb blasts have rocked the outskirts of the Nigerian capital, with casualties reported, officials say. The first struck near a police station in Kuje, 25 miles (40km) from Abuja, the second hit a bus stop in Nyanya. One official said 10 people had been “critically injured”. However, […]
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Friday, October 2nd, 2015
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The APC governorship candidate for Akwa Ibom State in the 2015 general elections, Mr Umana Okon Umana, has dismissed as totally false and without any basis in facts, a publication in the social media which claims that he, Mr Umana, has criticised and rejected President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial nomination for […]
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Friday, October 2nd, 2015
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Mangrove Boys of Bayelsa, a group of young elements in the creeks of Niger Delta canvassing for improved economic benefits for the Ijaw nation, is set to stage a 10,000-man march to protest the emergence of former governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva, as candidate for the December 5 […]
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Friday, October 2nd, 2015
By Niyi Adeyi BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Petroleum Resources in the immediate past administration, Mrs. Deizani Alison-Madueke, has been arrested in London by the operatives of the United Kingdom (UK) National Crime Agency. Allison-Maduekwe, who has been outside Nigeria for over three months ago, was reportedly picked up by the Agency’s […]
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Friday, October 2nd, 2015
By Mustapha Abdul Salaam BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Several people were killed and injured late Thursday as many female suicide bombers stormed Sageri, Ajilari and other communities in the outskirts of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, North East Nigeria and detonated explosive devices fixed on their bodies. The deadly attack which occurred around 7.35pm, […]
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Thursday, October 1st, 2015
From Collins Amadi BALTIMORE, MD, (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Rivers State Governor, Rt. Hon. Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi has appealed to Nigerians to support, as well as pray for the present administration, if it must achieve its goals. Amaechi’s plea was contained in his 55th Independence […]
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Thursday, October 1st, 2015
By Mustapha Abdul Salaam BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian troops have launched more offensives on Sambisa forest, Borno State, North East, the latest move leading to killing of two suspected Boko Haram terrorists and seizure of many weapons and supplies. Defence Headquarters (DHQ) revealed Thursday that troops laid ambush at the insurgents’ crossing […]
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Thursday, October 1st, 2015
By Ayo Balogun, Lagos BALTIMORE, MD, (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Mohammadu Buhari has again said his government is not out to witch-hunt anybody adding that people should only fear the consequences of their wrong actions. Addressing the nation on the occasion of her 55th year independent anniversary, Buhari reiterated that neither he nor his administration […]
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Wednesday, September 30th, 2015
*As APC Felicitates With Nigerians By Niyi Adeyi BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As Nigeria marks her 55th Independence anniversary, President Muhammadu Buhari will Thursday, October 1, 2015, at 7am, make a nationwide broadcast as part of the programme of activities to mark the historic occasion. In line with this, Mr. President’s SA on Media […]
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Wednesday, September 30th, 2015
By Ayo Balogun BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Afenifere Renewal Group (ARG) has said it is still bewildered by the kidnap saga of one of Yoruba’s foremost Yoruba leaders, Chief Olu Falae. The body blasted the police for not being able to handle the issue as it remained helpless in cases involving kidnappers. ARG […]
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Wednesday, September 30th, 2015
By Mustapha Abdul Salaam BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Defence Headquarters (DHQ) Wednesday informed that the troops in an offensive operation to clear Boko Haram terrorists’ enclave around Kwatarha and Torikwaptir general area of Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State, have killed a notorious Boko Haram terrorist, who had been wrecking havoc […]
