Minister of State (Power), Hon Mohammed Wakil has cautioned politicians and Nigerians in general against politicising national security, describing the trend as partly responsible for the security challenges facing the nation. Addressing 1992 graduands of University of Maiduguri in Abuja on Saturday, Wakil lamented “attempt by some Nigerians to play politics with insurgency in the […]
Retired Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Chukwudifu Oputa is dead. He died at the age of 96, according to his family. He was said to have died around 3:30 pm on Sunday in Abuja. The former jurist has been sick and is said to have suffered partial stroke and has been bedridden. A statement […]
Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, Chairman, Senate Committee on Information, Media and Public Affairs, has described as baseless rumours that the emergence of Abia State Governor of Ukwa-Ngwa extraction would lead to the seizure of properties of non-indigenes in Aba. Abaribe, a governorship aspirant made the declaration in Umuahia in continuation of his consultation with the people […]
Oyewale Oyelola Lagos Lawyer and human right activist Femi Falana (SAN) on Sunday rejected membership of Presidential Fact Finding Committee on the abducted chibok school girls in Borno state, North-East Nigeria. Federal government in its effort to rescue over 200 girls of the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State kidnapped by Boko Haram appointed […]
The death toll of the last Thursday’s bomb explosion in Nyanya has increased to 20 with the death of another victim at Asokoro District Hospital on Saturday Minister of State for Health, Dr. Khaliru Alhassan confirmed this during his tour to the hospitals where victims are currently receiving treatment in Abuja. Victims of May Day […]
Oyewale Oyelola Senator Iyabo Obasanjo has attributed the Boko Haram insurgency to unemployment blaming government for failing to live up to their responsibility of creating jobs. The first daughter of former president Olusegun Obasanjo stated this in 860-words open letter to Boko Haram. According to her, “the truth is that you have succeeded because the […]
Kayode Adelowokan The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders has called on Federal Government to address the problem of uneven distribution of wealth in Nigeria. This came on the heels of the statement of President Goodluck Jonathan that poverty is not the problem of the country. President Jonathan in his Labour Day Speech had claimed that Nigeria […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Onitsha The entire Onitsha South Local Government Area of Anambra state has been thrown into pandemonium, following the ongoing cold war between the chairman of the Council; Lady Ann Chukwuneke, and the Treasurer, Augustine Ezinwa. The feud however, took a new twist last Wednesday, when the council boss, locked up the treasurer […]
Breaking News! At least 10 people have been confirmed dead and 13 others have been injured in a bomb blast that ripped through Nyanya, Abuja Thursday, less than three weeks after 75 people were killed in the same area, according to the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA. The bomb went off around 8:20 pm, about 10 […]
Ignatius Okpara A group under the platform of Ndigbo Cultural Society of Nigeria NCSN has called on president Goodluck to sack the Minister of Environment, Mrs. Laurentia Mallam, and a director in the ministry, Mr. Kehinde Odusanya, for failing to issue the Environmental Impact Assessment EIA report needed for the commencement of work on 2nd […]
Agabus Pwanagba The Plateau State Government has sacked the management of the Plateau Publishing Company, publishers of The Nigeria Standard Newspapers. This was made known in a press statement made available to African Examiner in Jos, and signed by the Permanent Secretary Ministry of Information and Communication, Emmanuel Gogwim. No reason was given for the […]
By IGNATIUS OKPARA Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, of Rivers state has abolished the concept of non-indigenes, a policy that discriminates against people from other parts of Nigerian, living in the state. It would be recalled that his APC governor counterpart, Aliyu Wammako of Sokoto State, similarly abolished the policy in his state on March 8, […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos Properties estimated multi-million were on Wednesday destroyed as fire razes a part of the Lagos State Waste Transfer Loading Station (TLS) located in Oshodi area of Lagos, Nigeria. The fire was said to have started around 6.00pm and as at 10.00pm, it was still raging at the house where millions of tyres […]
Kayode Adelowokan Over one thousand Nigerian women in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on Wednesday defiled the rains to stage a protest, registering their anger over the continued abduction of over 200 Nigerian school girls by the Boko Haram sect. The girls of a Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State, were abducted on […]
Kayode Adelowokan The deem light of hope has began to shine on Nigeria pension system as the House of Representatives on Wednesday passed the Pension Reform Bill 2013 after its consideration on the floor of the House by members. The Bill, according to its explanatory memorandum, repeals the Pension Reform Act of 2004, and enacts […]
Mona Ogbeidi “The enemy has clearly and unequivocally served the nation notice of its vile intentions,” These were the words of the Nigerian Senate President, Senator David Mark, during the resumption of plenary on Tuesday after a working Easter break. In his speech Mark pointed out that, “For all Nigerians, this year’s Easter was foreshadowed […]
Oyewale Oyelola Chief Adeniyi Akintola (SAN), Oyo state delegate at the ongoing national conference has threatened to mobilise his fellow delegates from the South-West to stage a walkout of the meeting and to refrain from endorsing the resolutions of the committee. Chief Adeniyi Akintola said this on Tuesday during the meeting of Conference Committee on […]
Los Angeles Clippers Coach Doc Rivers said tonight that the NBA’s decision to ban owner Donald Sterling for life and fine him $2.5 million after he was recorded making racist comments about African-Americans can “begin the healing process” for the team, the league and the country. “These last three or four days have been very […]
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Abakaliki Ebonyi State House of Assembly on Tuesday during its plenary suspended the Deputy Speaker and member Representing Afikpo South East constituency, Hon Blaise Orji and two other members for alleged insubordination. The other suspended lawmakers, are the member Representing Afipko South West Constituency, Hon Eni Uduma Chima, and the member representing, Ohaukwu […]
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Abakaliki, No fewer than 500 aggrieved Members of the All Progressives Congress APC in Ebonyi State, on Tuesday staged a protest against the leadership of the state congress committee, accusing them of irregularities. The protesting APC members, alleged that the congress committee, engaged in fraudulent activities in the conduct of the Tuesday, exercise […]
