By Kayode Adelowokan The People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Ogun State chapter has described the rumour that it has merged with Labour Party of Nigeria (LP) as a mere speculations. The party chairman said this while receiving about 2,000 defectors from other political parties into the PDP in Ota, Ado Odo/Ota Local Government Area of the […]
Agabus Pwanagba, Jos Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State has signed N225, 058,026,306 billion 2014 budget into law even as he noted monitoring is the major bane of any budgetary implementation. The budget, which is tagged “budget of continuity and inclusive growth” was signed into law on Monday at the Government House Rayfield in Jos. […]
Ignatius Okpara, Enugu Mrs. Ifeoma Nneji, an Enugu magistrate, is now in police net with her husband, over alleged abduction of a 9-year-old child. According to the police, apart from the abduction offence, the magistrate, attached to Oji River Magisterial Division was also arrested alongside her husband, Mr. Ifeanyi Nneji by the Enugu State Police […]
(Reuters) – Suspected Islamist militants have killed at least 85 people in northeastern Nigeria, witnesses and officials said on Sunday, in a further setback to President Goodluck Jonathan’s military campaign. Twin bomb blasts in the city of Maiduguri killed at least 46 people on Saturday evening while, around 50 km (30 miles) away, dozens of […]
The Rivers State Chapter of All Progressives Congress has blasted the federal government over what it called insensitivity of the federal government towards security issues and oil theft in Niger Delta Region. The party in a press statement issued on Sunday by Chief Eze Chukwuemeka noted that, “of particular worry to us is the Federal […]
It’s a great exercise in Quackery -Presidency Ayo Balogun, Lagos “When asked, If the election were held today, would you vote for Goodluck Jonathan or the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, the APC candidate held a ten-point lead over the President. By a margin of 44% to 34% (with 22% undecided), the APC candidate […]
AN OPEN LETTER TO MR. PRESIDENT, AGF, SENATE, HOUSE OF REPS, EFCC, ICPC, SSS, POLICE, SGF, COS INTRODUCTION Expectedly, since the suspension from office of Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), a lot of reactions have greeted the action – some in support of the step taken by […]
It has emerged that the proposal by the finance minister for the forensic audit of the accounts of the Nigerian National Petroluem Corporation is against section 85 ( c ) of the 1999 constitution which prescribes procedures for the auditing of federal agencies . Checks showed that the constitution does not allow the minister of […]
Gunmen believed to be members of Boko Haram insurgents have attacked the convoy of the governor of Adama State, Murtala Nyako. The incident occurred early today at Shuwari area of the State, as the governor was returning from paying a condolence visit to victims of Boko Haram attacks two days ago. The governor reportedly escaped […]
Ignatius Okpara, Enugu The United Nations Children Education Fund UNICEF, has expressed shock over the recent brutal killing of some 45 children, between 13 and 17 years old, by unidentified gunmen at the Federal Government College of Buni Yadi, Yobe State, Nigeria. A statement issued by UNICEF Regional Director for West and Central Africa, Manuel […]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has absolved the Rivers state government of complicity in the kidnapping of three PDP chieftains and in the killing of one other person. The abducted men include the Port Harcourt Local Government PDP Chairman, Ikechi Chinda; a former member of the House of Representatives representing Port Harcourt […]
By Eric Ojo President Goodluck Jonathan has urged French companies to invest in Nigeria in order to cement the ongoing favourable trade and investment relationship between both countries. Trade between Nigeria and France has been on a rising growth path over the years and it is one of the fastest growth rates that have been […]
Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun has unveiled the delegates of the state to the national conference, charging them to champion among other issues the need for true and fiscal federalism, decentralisation of police as well as security and devolution of power. “We must get these right and clearly define the basis of our existence […]
Ruth Bamidele, Lagos As part of its corporate social responsibility, Dana Airline in partnership with Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited (BASL) took pupils on an educational excursion of airport facilities, which includes a first hand experience of how an air plane works. The week long expedition programme saw the airline opening its aircraft doors to over […]
Ignatius Okpara, Lagos A middle age man, identified as Ogadinma Chukwu, on Thursday lost his life while satisfying his sexual urge with a commercial sex worker at a popular brothel, called New Nigeria City Hotel, located along Saint. Michael’s road, Aba, Abia state. A close Source to the brothel told African Examiner that the deceased […]
An Abuja Federal Court has turned down moves by the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi to immediately return to office. In his ruling Wednesday, Justice Gabriel Kolawole, said: “It is unsafe, judicially speaking to embark on far reaching interim orders which have all the attributes of a mandatory […]
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged Coca-Cola Limited and the Nigerian Bottling Company Limited to the United Nations, UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights over serious breaches of corporate responsibility to respect the right to health of Nigerians and the failure to provide effective remedies to victims. The organization said […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos As the nation prepares to mark the Centenary anniversary, President Goodluck Jonathan says the amalgamation of the Southern and Northern Protectorate by Lord Lugard in 1914 was not a mistake. The president, in a national broadcast on Wednesday on the Centenary celebration said “I have often expressed the conviction that our amalgamation […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos The All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned Monday night’s horrific attack on the Federal Government College in Yobe State, in which over 40 students were reported to have been brutally murdered by blood-thirsty insurgents. In a statement issued in Lagos on Wednesday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the […]
Ruth Bamidele 54-year-old Ghanaian comedian,Musah Iddrisu aka Charles Udunehi and a 20-year-old citizen of Congo DRC, Inana Cedrick who claimed to be a secondary school student has been apprehended by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for being in possession of narcotic drugs. According to Chairman/Chief Executive of the NDLEA, Ahmadu Giade, […]
