By Ganiyu Nasirudeen – The Nigerian Senate has declared a state of emergency on the country’s road infrastructures and called on the Federal government (FG) to embark on immediate rehabilitation as well as dualization of major highways and interstate roads across the country. The motion which was sponsored by 90 Senators was moved Wednesday at […]
By Ayo Balogun – Life has been described as a “battleground” and man has been enjoined to struggle to impact positively on others, once there is an opportunity still alive. The admonition was given Tuesday at the Canaaland Church, by Pastor Gbigbi Jackson at the burial service of the late African Examiner Managing Editor, Olufemi […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday sacked Dr. Joseph Thlama Dawha as the Group Managing Director, GMD of The Nigerian Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). A statement from the media office of President Buhari said that the President has also approved the appointment of Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, the Executive Vice Chairman of Exxon […]
By Ignatius Okpara – The Delta State Police Command has apprehended a notorious 26 year old suspected child-kidnapper, identified as Mr. Okafor Onuwa for stealing two little children in Atuma-Iga community, in Aniocha Council Area of Delta state. Celestina Kalu, the Command Public Relations Officer, who disclosed this to newsmen in Asaba monday, said that […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen – Hope of the convicted soldiers, who were punished for committing mutiny, of being pardon and freed, is beckoning as the Nigerian Military authority has indicated interest in this regard. The Acting Director of Army Public Relations, Sani Usman, made the indication Sunday, confirming that the cases of the soldiers who were […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari says Boards of Federal Government parastatals, agencies, institutions and government-owned companies are not part of dissolutions announced on July 16, 2015. According to him, Vice Chancellors of Federal Universities have been informed of this exemption through a circular issued by the Head of the Civil Service of the […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Alhaji Mohammed Kari as the new Commissioner for Insurance and Chief Executive of the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM). In a statement issued Friday by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adeshina, Buhari said Kari’s appointment, which is for a term of four years in the first instance, was […]
By Ayo Balogun – Two people have been killed as rival cult groups clashed in Lagos, Nigeria. The cultists clashed at the early hours of Friday at Ebute Metta area of Lagos. The clash of superiority was between the Eye and Black Axe Confraternity. The clash led to the death of Gbolahan, popularly called ‘Sepe’ […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – The All Progressives Congress (APC) has insisted that the DG of DSS, Mr. Lawal Daura, is not a card-carrying member of the party, saying nothing short of producing Mr. Daura’s membership card or evidence of his membership registration will convince discerning Nigerians that he is indeed a member of the APC […]
A United States Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama where President Goodluck Jonathan’ s former aide, Mr. Kignsley Kuku is undergoing surgery yesterday confirmed that the operation was successful. Mr.Kuku who presided over Jonathan’ s Amnesty program for the Niger Delta militants, an initiative that was alleged to have marred with allegations of monumental frauds and embezzlement, […]
A bomb explosion has rocked Gamboru market on Friday morning in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital. African Examiner gathered that the explosion occurred near the entrance of Gamboru Market where operatives of commercial tricycles park to pick passengers. “We heard the blast at about 6:30am this morning and shortly afterwards, we saw people running from […]
By Ayo Balogun – Immediate past Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh (rtd) has offered a hint as to why the Nigeria’s military is struggling in the fight against the deadly Boko Haram insurgency in North-east Nigeria. The former military boss, at his pull-out-parade on Thursday, claimed that successive governments in Nigeria […]
By Eric Ojo – Mr. Michael Zenner, the German Ambassador to Nigeria, has harped on the need to provide basic and further training to health workers in Nigeria in order to improve their competence in the control of Ebola and other highly contagious diseases. Ambassador Zenner said that strengthening the capacities of medical workers and […]
President Muhammadu Buhari and President Paul Biya have agreed to work towards the completion of the demarcation of the land border between Nigeria and Cameroon before the end of the year. According to a communiqué issued Thursday at the conclusion of President Buhari’s official visit to Yaounde, both leaders welcomed the progress made thus far […]
By Ignatius Okpara, Enugu – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC has begun investigation of alleged financial impropriety levelled against the administration of the Immediate past governor of Enugu state, Barrister Sullivan Chime, by some citizens of the area. A Source at the commission, who craved anonymity revealed on Thursday, that the anti-graft agency’s […]
By Nwaorgu Faustinus – The leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC, says it has uncovered an insidious plan by Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike and elements of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, to blackmail Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, former governor of Rivers State and portray him as a corrupt and put him in bad […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – The All Progressives Congress (APC) has denied the allegation by the PDP that the Director-General of the DSS, Mr. Lawal Daura, is a card-carrying member of the party (APC), describing the accusation as absurd and frivolous. In a statement issued in Lagos on Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai […]
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has raised the alarm over intimidation, harassment and arrest of electoral officers in Rivers, Akwa Ibom and other PDP states by the officers of the Department of State Services (DSS). The PDP called on President Muhammadu Buhari to call the DSS to order to […]
By Akin Soneyin – The Royal Traditional Council of Ile Ife, Osun, South Western Nigeria, has described as a mere rumour, the widely reported news of death Tuesday, the Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, the Olubuse II. At a press briefing, jointly addressed Wednesday by the Lowa Adimula of Ife and Secretary of the […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has commended the peaceful resolution of the House of Representatives leadership crisis, which until now, had bogged down the activities of the House. In a statement released by his Media Office in Abuja on Wednesday, 29 July, the former Vice President recalled that the amicable outcome […]
