Over 60 women and girls have been reportedly escaped from the clutches of the dreaded Boko Haram, security sources have indicated. The escapees included the 68 abducted last month near Damboa in north-eastern Borno state. Reports indicated that the women escaped when the militants went to attack a military base near Damboa Friday. The Nigerian […]
Ignatius Okpara, Enugu Against the backdrop of current alarming insecurity challenges facing Nigeria, states in south- east zone of the country have agreed to jointly purchase security equipments for the area. The states are Imo, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Abia. To this end, the zone said it has received quotation from a vendor of international […]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has decried the delay in distributing the permanent voters cards to registered voters in the state ahead of the August 9, 2014 governorship election in Osun State, Nigeria, warning that it might be a ploy to disenfranchise voters. “INEC has been painfully slow in processing the permanent voters cards, and […]
More than 50 000 persons, including women, children and the aged, have been displaced from their homes in various parts – Bali, Wukari and Ibi of Taraba state due to the recent communal clashes. The Operations Officer in the Gombe Office of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Hajiya Zainab Umar, made this revelation on Sunday […]
At least 29 people have been killed by gunmen during raids on two different areas on the Kenyan coast, the country’s Interior Ministry revealed Sunday. The Somali militant group al-Shabaab, which attacked the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi last September, said it had staged an attack on Saturday evening in the coastal area. The Ministry’s […]
Israeli Police have arrested six Jewish suspects over the murder last week of a Palestinian teenager, Mohammad Abu Khdair, whose death resulted to days of violent protests. Police source indicated the victim was murdered “because of his nationality”. Khdair was first abducted in East Jerusalem, while his body was found last Wednesday. The first autopsy […]
The osun State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party has described as baseless and unfounded allegations by the state All Progressive Congress that the governorship candidate of the party is moving around with masked security men during his campaign. In a statement issued by Bola Ajao the state publicity secretary of the party,the PDP described […]
Ignatius Okpara, Enugu The Nigerian Copyrights Commission (NCC), has confiscated broadcast equipment estimated at N26.3 million illegally used to transmit illegal digital signals in Enugu. NCC South East Zonal Manager Mrs Ngozi Okeke, who disclosed this to newsmen Friday in Enugu, shortly after officials of the Federal government agency raided various parts of the state […]
Chinese online stores are couching on Uruguay striker Luis Suarez’s notorious bite of an opponent at the ongoing World Cup by selling bottle openers with his image. Liverpool forward Suarez has been slammed a four month ban from football for biting Italy defender, Giorgio Chiellini during their final group match in Brazil last month. He […]
Ignatius Okpara, Onitsha Angered by the refusal of some residents and organizations in the state to pay their property rates, the Anambra State Government on Friday sealed-up nine buildings in the commercial city of Onitsha, owing to accumulated bills which has been estimated at over N1 million. The exercise which was supervised by the Anambra […]
The trial and conviction of the arrested and detained suspects of July 2013 Egyptian protest and massacre continues as a criminal court in the country this morning, sentenced strong Muslim Brotherhood leader, Mohammed Badie, and 36 other members to life in prison. Death sentences were also slammed on 10 others, including an underage defendant who […]
Agabus Pwanagba, Jos Irrespective of the mounted political tension in the state, a youth group under the aegis of Political Mobilization Awareness Committee (PMAC), in Nasarawa has endorsed re-election of the incumbent Governor Umaru Tanko Al-Makura, in the 2015 state’s gubernatorial poll. The group in a press statement signed by its leader, Yusuf Abari and […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Onitsha Commercial and social activities were on Friday paralyzed for several hours in Onitsha, the commercial city of Anambra state, as tricycle operators popularly called (Keke), staged a protest against what they described as “alarming rate of police extortion, intimidation and harassment of their members”. The protest, which sparked -off from the […]
By Tajudeen Balogun The Minister of State for Defence, Musliu Obanikoro has absolved the Military from Friday attack, damages and burning of some state BRT buses at Palmgroove and Onipanu areas on Ikorodu road, Lagos. Some parts of the ever busy axis yesterday momentarily became no-go area as the Military from Yaba barracks stormed Onipanu […]
By Our Correspondent Senator Bala Mohammed, the minister of the Federal Capital Territory has been accused of siphoning several millions of money from government coffers to pursue his governorship ambition. Bala Mohammed’s political ambition is to become Bauchi state governor in 2015, an ambition many believe may hit the rock following the minister’s many misappropriations. […]
Brazil have been dealt a major blow in their attempt to win the World Cup with news that star forward Neymar is OUT. The No.10 was stretchered off in the quarter-final win over Colombia in tears and raced to hospital. A few hours later team doctor Rodgiro Lasmar confirmed the Barcelona man would not be […]
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Benin Another round of Pandemonium broke out Friday at the Edo State House of Assembly, as policemen drafted to the place clashed with the lawmakers, even as one of them threatened to shoot the Speaker, Uyi Igbe. The speaker and other members of the crisis- ridden Assembly were tear gassed by some mobile […]
The Emir of Kano and Former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has formally withdrawn his suit against the federal government in which he was challenging President Goodluck Jonathan’s decision to suspend him from office. Emir Sanusi was suspended in February this year by President Jonathan after a report into CBN […]
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola has condemned soldiers’ burning of eight BRT and Lagbus at Palmgroove area on Ikorodu Road after a soldier riding on motorcycle was crushed to dead by a Lagbus. Fashola, who addressed State House Correspondents on Friday evening at the State House, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria said it was irresponsible for […]
As he arrived the country from Brazil where the Super Eagles just crashed out of the world football competition, the President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Aminu Maigari has been picked by the security operatives. African Examiner learnt that Maigari who arrived Abuja early Friday with scanty members of the squad as some of […]
