(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has congratulated the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, on his 60th birthday, saying his birthday has come at a momentous time this year. He described Osinbajo as “a consummate team player who does not seek individual accolades but one, who without personal […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Let me state from the outset that I am not a card-carrying member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), but I have sympathy for the party for some personal reasons. With that kind of sympathetic or empathic mindset, it becomes difficult to maintain a dispassionate position – privately or publicly- when matters in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has appointed Major Gen. John Enenche as new Director Defence Information. Gen. Enenche replaced Brigadier Gen. Rabe Abubakar who is now the Director of Information Management in the Department of Civil Military Affairs, Army Headquarters. Until his appointment, Major General Enenche was the Defence Liaison Officer at the Defence […]
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu (African Examiner) – The people of Amechi Uwani community in Enugu South- council area of Enugu state Tuesday staged a protest over alleged unlawful acquisition of their ancestral land by the immediate past governor of the state, Sullivan Chime, insisting that the land be returned to them. African Examiner reports that members […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Acting President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has inaugurated the new Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Walter Onnoghen. Onnoghen is being sworn-in as the 17th CJN. His inauguration which held Tuesday at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja was witnessed by the President of the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As was foreseen and forewarned by many concerned observers at the beginning of Herman Hembe’s kangaroo hearing on the Centenary City project, the irascible lawmaker has shocked his colleagues in the House of Representatives. The Committee Chairman on FCT produced a report from his recent, inconclusive public hearing. The report is essentially […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Many Nigerians are angry. They discovered that their prized garri, the cassava flakes staple food they assume proprietorial ownership over, is being imported from India! The outrage seems justified as we produce eighty percent of world cassava (Manihot Esculenta) across 33 of our 36 states. Also, we are the world’s largest exporter of cassava. Again, based […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Donald Trump has signed a new executive order placing a 90-day ban on people from six mainly Muslim nations. Iraq which was among the first seven affected Muslim countries has been removed from the list. Immigrants from Iraq with valid visas will now be allowed to enter the US. The […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Acting President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, will inaugurate the newly confirmed Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Walter Onnoghen Tuesday, March 7, 2017. The 17th CJN is expected to be sworn-in at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja by 9am. It would be recalled that upon re-sending […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has warned Nigerians who have no compelling or urgent reason to travel to the US to suspend their travel plans until the country’s new administration’s policy on immigration is clear. Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa handed down the […]
ADAMAWA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Adamawa State High Court sitting in Yola has slamed five years imprisonment on a former Governor of the State, Bar. James Bala Ngilari, over financial misappropriation. Ngillari who assumed office after the controversial impeachment of his predecessor, Muritala Nyako was culpable of five counts of conspiracy, including the award […]
The book, Atiku – The Story of Atiku Abubakar, has the author’s name as Ojo Adinoyi. Unless, of course, you were familiar with the author or, and, knew that he was a special aide to the former Nigerian vice-president, you would have thought that it is not the same person as Onukaba Adinoyi-Ojo. But then, […]
AKURE, (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Veteran journalist and a former Managing Director of the Daily Times Nigeria Plc, Dr Onukaba Adinoyi Ojo is dead. Onukaba, 57, according to his relation Mr. Yusuf Itopa who confirmed Monday in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, died at about 6pm Sunday at a village near Akure, the Ondo State capital. The […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A civil rights activist, Tonye Bob-Manuel, on Sunday took to the cleaners, ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, for empowering his godson, George Turnah, rather unduly. Turnah (33), now under investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, was conferred with the prestigious national honour of Member of Order of the Niger (MON) by Jonathan. […]
By Ignatius Okpara, ENUGU (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu state chapter of the crisis- ridden opposition peoples Democratic party (PDP) weekend suffered yet another major set back, as one of its chieftain and ex-military Governor,(MILAD) of Gombe state, Group Captain Joe Orji (Rtd) defected to the ruling All progressive congress APC with scores of his […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Notwithstanding the clandestine move by those who are opposed to the ongoing sanitization of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, the Group Managing Director, Dr Maikanti Baru, has been enjoyed to sustain it for the benefit of the Nigerian people. Since his assumption of office, Baru has undertaken far reaching measures designed […]
EKITI, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As the former President Olusegun Obasanjo clocked 80 Saturday, Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has advised him to take a cue from the lifestyle of ex-Military Head of State, Gen Abdul Salami Abubakar, for him to assume full status of a stateman. Fayose gave the advice in a statement issued […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The continued prosecution of Emeka Mba, erstwhile Director General of the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC,by the Federal Government through the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, presents several agonizing puzzles. Recently, the Minister of Information, National Orientation and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed admitted that government was grateful for the N34 billion realised […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) standing Committee on Reconciliation and Governor of Bayelsa State, Honourable Henry Seriake Dickson has appealed to party leaders to make sacrifices to revive the party. The governor said his committee has started embarking on a wide consultation with party leaders/ critical stakeholders across board […]
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu (African Examiner) – The Enugu state Ministry of Health says it is targeting about 1.1 million children and pregnant women in the ongoing maternal, new born and child health week in all the house holds in the state. It expressed appreciation to the United Nation children Education fund, UNICEF and other […]
