(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has condemned the Department of State Services (DSS) arrest and detention of the Managing Director of Capital Oil and Gas Limited, Ifeanyi Ubah, lamenting that “the DSS is becoming law unto itself and dragging Nigeria back to 1984 when Decree 2 was used by the National […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – More than four weeks it suspended the exercise, the Senate Wednesday commenced the screening of the 27 nominated Residents Electoral Commissioners (RECs) for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). President Muhammadu Buhari late March sent the nominees to the upper legislative chamber for screening and confirmation, but on March 28, […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) The Enugu State Police Command has confirmed it has commenced investigation and manhunt of killers of the female police orderly attached to the State’s Deputy Governor Mrs. Cecilia Ezeilo, who was shot dead around 10 pm by unknown gunmen on Tuesday night in Enugu, the State capital. The Command’s […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The world Football Governing body FIFA might sanction Italian football authorities over the racist treatment meted out to Pescara midfielder Sulley Muntari. Muntari was sent off after leaving the field claiming that he was racially abused during a Serie A game. The 32-year-old player was initially banned for one game but this […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The House of Representatives on Tuesday received the report of 2017 Budget proposal from its Committee on Appropriation for final consideration. The appropriation committee increased the figures to N7.44 trillion, representing an addition of about N143 billion to the one presented by President Muhammadu Buhari on Dec. 14, 2016. Presenting the report […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A businessman, Mr Olanrewaju Gentry was on Tuesday remanded in Ikoyi Prison custody for allegedly assaulting his actress wife Mercy Aigbe. He will be in custody until he fulfils his bail terms. Gentry 52, was arraigned before magistrate O. Aje. Afunwa in Ogba, Lagos, for alleged wife battery. He was arraigned on […]
Photo caption: L-R: Director, NASCON Allied Industries Plc, Halima Dangote Executive Director Commercial, NASCON Allied Industries Plc, Fatima Dangote and the Managing Director, NASCON Allied Industries Plc, Paul Farrer at the company’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) held recently in Lagos. (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Executive Director Commercial of NASCON Allied Industries Plc, Fatima Aliko Dangote has […]
Photo caption: Mr. Tony O. Elumelu, Chairman of Heirs Holdings and Founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – “Embrace legacy, you are not here forever,” Mr. Tony O. Elumelu, Chairman of Heirs Holdings, and Founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, urged policymakers as he represented the African private sector at the opening session […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu state House of Assembly has passed a law amending the gubernatorial pension bill of 2015 ex-Governors and their Deputies to take pensions for life. However, the law has a proviso that the governor or the deputy must not be impeached in order to earn such life […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila on Tuesday named a new transitional government, state television said, defying opponents who say he is in violation of a previous agreement. Kabila, in power since 2001, struck a deal in December with Congo’s main opposition bloc to allow him to stay on after his […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – In its first thirty nine years as an independent country , military dictators ruled Nigeria for twenty nine years. They were years when the country was almost drowned in rivers of blood including a three-year Civil War which claimed over two million lives. Professionalism and esprit de corps departed the military to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A political movement, National Forum of Democrats (NFD), has described as insincere, comments by the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, over the health challenges of President Muhammadu Buhari saying the words were meant to please the President “but lack emotional depth.” The organisation demanded “an […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At least six people have been killed in a car bombing outside a Mogadishu restaurant, including a senior Somali military general. Government officials have told VOA’s Somali Service that General Abdi Bashir Aden was among those killed in the Monday bombing. Ten others were injured when the bomb went off shortly before […]
Photo Caption: Bayelsa Gov Seriake Dickson with Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachukwu flanked by Senator Foster Ogola and Secretary to the State Government Barr. Serena Dokubo-Spiff at the OTC Oil and Gas conference in Houston By Daniel Iworiso-Markson The recently concluded Oil and Gas Trade Conference (OTC) in Houston, Texas, United States […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Five communities currently being ravaged by alarming erosion in Anambra state, South East Nigeria, have cried out over the disaster, calling on the state governments to come to their rescue, just as they listed conditions for the support of Obiano’s 2nd term re-election ambition. The communities include, Ufuma, […]
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA , Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As part of measure to ensure a decent and effective management of traffic rules and regulations in line with global best practices , the Enugu State Government has commenced a one-month training for over 150 persons to be recruited as Traffic Enforcement Bureau officials. Declaring the training […]
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governors of South East geopolitical zone of Nigeria on Sunday resolved to intervene in the alarming epileptic power situation in the area which has continued to hinder economic growth in the region. Rising from their meeting held at the Enugu government house, the governors said they have agreed […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government of Nigeria has described as indecent, inhuman and ill-timed the statement credited to a faction of the PDP criticizing the process that led to the release of the 82 Chibok Girls last weekend. In a statement issued in Abuja Monday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, […]
AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has congratulated Emmanuel Macron on his election as the next President of France. In a congratulatory letter to the President-elect, Prof. Osinbajo said he received the news of the election of the 39-year old Macron with satisfaction, noting that under successive governments, the relations between Nigeria and […]
*Osinbajo to Function as Ag. President (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Following his protracted ill health, President Muhammadu Buhari has proceeded to London for follow-up medical consultation with his doctors. A statement from his media aide, Femi adesina said the president had planned to leave Sunday afternoon, but decided to tarry a bit, due to the […]
