By Ebun Asagbe I am no medical practitioner, but surely there must be an appropriate term for the malady that ails Dele Sobowale. How did I arrive at this conclusion? Well, anyone who has read his recent articles on the ASUU strike would think the same way. I resorted to my old friend, Google, to […]
By Niyi Adeyi ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government (FG) has given the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) a week ultimatum to consider resolutions reached with it at the last reconciliatory meeting and revert with its position on the ongoing strike. FG and ASUU delegations held another resolution meeting, which started […]
KAMPALA — Uganda is launching a drive against online pornography that critics condemn as a diversion from deeper problems of graft, unemployment and crumbling social services facing President Yoweri Museveni. The campaign is the latest salvo in a culture war between conservatives fighting what they see as foreign moral influences promoting criminality and a more […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The first official hurricane warnings were issued for Florida by the National Hurricane Center late Thursday evening as the storm continues to draw closer to the U.S. South Florida and the Florida Keys were both issued hurricane warnings and storm surge warnings as the National Weather Service sent out its 11 p.m. […]
By Akintokunbo A Adejumo, akinadejum@aol.com This statement by the late great Madiba, Nelson Mandela, a true African son and only one of its kinds is what I consider the apt title to this piece. It is an obvious and incontrovertible fact! Why we chose to notice and acknowledge it Nigeria is beyond me, because it is […]
Photo caption: Former Nigeria’s Vice President Atiku Abubakar (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has accused the Buhari’s government of sidelining him after helping it to power. Speaking on the Hausa Service of the Voice of America (VOA) on Wednesday, Atiku said: “Honestly speaking, I’m still a member of the APC; I was part […]
Photo caption: PIX CAPTION: L-R: Chamberlain Usoh with Chairman, LCC Squash Section, Arc. Funmi Bamkole, Representative of Akwa Ibom state Governor, Mr Samuel Bassey, Tom Ford, NSF President, Boye Oyerinde and Ramsey Nouah. LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Emmanuel Udom of Akwa Ibom State has lauded the recently concluded maiden edition of Chamberlain Squash Open […]
From Ignatius Okpara IMO NIGERIA, (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Imo state Police Command on Thursday in Owerri, the Imo state capital, South -East Nigeria, paraded five suspected killers of Rev. Fr. Cyriacus Onunkwo, of the Orlu Catholic Diocese, who was kidnapped and murdered last weekend. They were paraded before newsmen by the State’s Commissioner of […]
EKITI, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Apparently due to the latest political twist especially with regards to the State’s 2018 Governorship election, the acting National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Prince Adedayo Adeyeye has resigned his appointment as the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman, Governing Council of the Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti. The […]
From Ignatius Okpara ENUGU, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu State Police Command says it has begun investigation into the circumstances surrounding the alleged drowning of three children of same family in a well at Ezeama community in Igboetiti council Area of the state. Our Correspondent gathered that the children fell into the well and […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The battle for the political soul of Ezeagu council Area of Enugu state, South East Nigeria, in the forthcoming local government election scheduled for November 4th, 2017,Tuesday hots up, as a retired Army Brigadier-General, Felix Okafor, joined the chairmanship race. African Examiner reports that the Aspirant who pledged […]
Photo caption: Senator Isah Misau ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Service Commission (PSC) has confirmed the retirement of Senator Isah Misau. Misau, who is representing Bauchi central senatorial district and Chairman, Senate committee on Navy has since been enmeshed in retirement letter controversy. The Head, PSC Press and Public Relations Ikechukwu Ani Wednesday in […]
Photo caption: Prof. Kolapo Olusola (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ekiti state governor, Ayo Fayose may have anointed his deputy Prof. Kolapo Olusola as likely successor when his tenure expires in 2018. This indication arose on Wednesday as the Ekiti People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Stakeholders which is under firm control of the governor announced Prof. Kolapo Olusola as […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has been tasked to personally see to the quickest resolution of the near -intractable reasons for the ongoing industrial actions in the tertiary educational institutions and the public health sector. Making the charge in a press statement is the HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) which emphasized that […]
By Mustapha Abdul Salam KANO, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government (FG) has announced that this week’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting will not hold. According to the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed in an announcement Tuesday in Kano, FG said the cancellation was due to inadequate time to prepare the […]
Photo caption: Lagos state governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode (R) receives the new Lagos police chief Imohimi Edgal in his officie at Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos. By Ayo Balogun, Lagos LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode said he is confident in the ability of the new Commissioner of Police in the State, Mr Imohimi […]
Photo caption: Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose in full Islamic regalia (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Following his appearance in Islamic regalia and turban on Friday, 1st September, 2017 during Sallah celebration, a Muslim group, Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has said the Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose committed an act of Sacrilege adding that his […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu Nigeria (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Catholic Bishop of Orlu Diocese, in Imo state, South East Nigeria, Most Rev. Dr. Augustine Ukwuoma, immediate and extended families, as well as friends of slain Catholic Priest, Rev. Fr. Cyriacus Onunkwo, have called on law enforcement agencie and the state government to ensure that perpetrators […]
Photo caption: Tony Nwoye From Ignatius Okpara ENUGU NIGERIA, (AFRICAN EXAMINER) -The South – East zone chapter of the Buhari Support Organisation (BSO) has congratulated and thrown its weight behind the flag-bearer of All Progressives Congress (APC) for Anambra State Governorship election, Hon. Tony Nwoye. It said the candidate is broad minded, pro-people and has […]
Photo caption: Mr Austyn Ogannah, Publisher of Thewill and new President of the Online Publishers Association of Nigeria (OPAN) (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Online Publishers Association of Nigeria (OPAN), Nigeria’s premier association of digital and internet publishers, has announced the election of a new executive. The new executive will run the affairs of the group for […]
