By Ayo Balogun LAAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Prominent industrialist, economist and Co-Chairman, Lagos @50 Planning Committee, Chief Rasheed Gbadamosi has died at the age of 72. Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Steve Ayorinde announced Gbadamosi’s death Wednesday night on his twitter handle @stevoree. Ayorinde said the Lagos State Government mourned the passing […]
By Ayo Balogun IKEJA, LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode has urged members of the State’s All Nigeria Confederation of Principals of Secondary Schools (ANCOPSS), not to compromise standard in secondary education despite the prevailing economic downturn in the country. The Governor, who gave the task at the 30th Annual […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Governor of Bayelsa State, Henry Seriake Dickson on Wednesday stormed Ado- Ekiti, to felicitate with his Ekiti State counterpart, Governor Ayodele Fayose on his 56th birthday anniversary. Fielding questions from Journalists after being conducted round some projects in Ado Ekiti, Dickson poured encomiums on his colleague for initiating critical projects at […]
Ayodele Afolabi BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside has charged member states of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to eradicate the scourge of piracy in the sub region in order to grow the economy. The DG who stated […]
Ayodele Afolabi ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has denied claims of strain relationship between the executive and the Legislature arm of government, saying that relations between the country’s three arms of government, particularly the Executive and the Legislature is healthy and strong. A statement signed by the APC National […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Exactly two months after being accused of using racially abusive language on another club side’s player, Newcastle United midfielder Jonjo Shelvey has pleaded not guilty to the Football Association charge. The 24-year-old England international, was charged following an incident during the Magpies’ 2-0 Championship defeat by Wolves on Saturday, September […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A mayor of a town in the US State of West Virginia, Beverly Whaling has resigned after being caught in a controversy over racist comments against the outgoing First Lady Mrs. Michelle Obama. Whaling was caught to have applauded a Facebook post referring to Mrs. Obama as an “ape in […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Abia State Governor and founder of the Progressives Peoples Alliance (PPA), Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu has defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Kalu, a former chieftain of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP’s) was formally received Wednesday, by the APC National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun at the […]
By Ignatius Okpara ENUGU, ENUGU, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Tuesday, arraigned the Managing Director of “Lets’ Partner with You, an Enugu based wonder bank, Mr. Patrick. Nwokike in court. He was docked at a Federal High Court sitting in Enugu alongside his wife and Director, Rosemary Nwokike. […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No fewer than three persons lost their lives, while many vehicles were burnt, early hours of Wednesday as a tanker crashed with some vehicles in Kara area, along Lagos-Ibadan expressway. Eyewitness account said the accident occurred around 3am when a loaded truck ran into a tanker with diesel. The friction […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ron Dennis has ended his 35-year tenure as the boss of McLaren. The 69-year-old Dennis, quit Tuesday, after being told by fellow shareholders that he must give up his position as the Chairman and chief executive of McLaren Group. Reluctant McLaren boss failed last week in a High Court, in […]
By Ayo Balogun LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Government has given assurance that its first DNA Forensic Centre to be established in Nigeria will become operational by the first quarter of 2017. The State Attorney General (AG) and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Adeniji Kazeem while giving update on the project, expressed hope […]
SOKOTO, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Detained former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd) has declined two Federal Government (FG) offers to visit his late father, Sultan Ibrahim Dasuki on his hospital bed, as well as Sokoto, for his burial. NAN reported that the Minister of Interior, Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Danbazau (retd), while addressing newsmen […]
ABUJA, NUGRIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER ) – The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has dismissed report that insinuates that Heritage Bank is under financial distress and therefore unable to discharge its obligations to its depositors. A statement issued by CBN described the report as false and malicious stories The statement reads in full: The attention of […]
AKURE, ONDO STATE, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As political parties jostle for votes ahead of the November 26 governorship election in Ondo State, Governor Seriake Dickson has arrived Akure, the state capital to campaign for the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). A statement issued on Tuesday night by the Special Adviser to the Governor (Media Relations), Francis Agbo, said Dickson in company […]
BORNO, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Barely two weeks after Lt. Col. Muhammad Abu-Ali was killed, has indication emerged that that Boko Haram insurgents have killed another military officer. The new victim was identified as Lt. Col. B. Umar. He was reportedly killed Monday while leading the troops of the 114 Tank Battalion from Gwoza, Borno […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Russia’s Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev has been accused by the country’s main anti-corruption body, the Investigative Committee (SK), of taking a bribe $2 million to endorse a state takeover. Mr. Ulyukayev is the highest-ranking Russian official, the position he has held since the 1991 coup attempt when the country was […]
– Confirms 47 Career Nominees Ayodele Afolabi ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate has rejected the entire list of 46 non-career ambassadorial nominees forwarded to it for confirmation by President Muhammadu Buhari last month. The upper legislative chamber however confirmed the nominations of 47 career nominees earlier forwarded to it by President Buhari in […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has joined other notable Nigerians in condoling the Dasuki’s family, the government and people of Sokoto State on the death of the 18th Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki. Mr. President in a statement issued Tuesday by his SSA on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, also commiserated […]
LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has condoled the current Sultan of Sokoto and President-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Alhaji Muhammadu Sa‘ad Abubakar III, the Governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal and the people of Sokoto State over the passage of the 18th Sultan, Alhaji […]
