…Leads Sanders With 3 million votes; 291 pledged delegates; 523 superdelegates, BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – US former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton is on her way to clinch the Democratic Presidential ticket as she has reached the required number of delegates. The count puts Mrs. Clinton on 2,383, which is the number needed to […]
By Funmilayo Omidiji OGUN, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Wife of the veteran Nollywood (English and Yoruba) actor Jide Kosoko, Henrietta has passed on at 53. Henrietta, who was also a prominent and celebrated Nollywood actress, was believed to have died Monday morning at the popular Sacred Heart Catholic Hospital, Lantoro, Abeokuta. Although, there is no […]
Academic researchers in Nigeria under the aegis of Academic Staff Union of Research Institutions (ASURI), on Monday, stormed the National Assembly in Abuja, protesting against the exclusion of Colleges of Agriculture and other research institutions in the country as beneficiaries of research funds by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND). The researchers who carried placards […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said Releasing the names of persons from whom the federal government has recovered looted funds and assets may jeopardize ongoing investigations. While the government released a list of sums of monies and assets already recovered in the last one year, names of individuals involved were not […]
Oyewale Oyelola Kogi State governorship election tribunal on Monday faulted James Faleke’s petition for his failure to join INEC as party in the petition. The tribunal sitting in Abuja ruled that failure of James Faleke to join INEC in the petition is a major defect to the petition. The ruling also stated that James Faleke […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – If the request in President Muhammadu Buhari’s letter to the National Assembly (NASS) gets the Federal Legislators nod, his Vice, Professor Yemi Osibajo will assume position of the acting President and Commander–in –Chief of Armed Forces in the next 10 days, while he is outside the country. […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Less than 24 hours after it denied reports that President Mohammadu Buhari is sick, the Presidency has issued a statement saying the president will on Monday proceed to London for a 10-day medical leave. A statement by the president’s spokesman Femi Adesina said During the holiday, he will see an […]
By Ayodele Afolabi GOMBE, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, said members of the National Assembly (NASS) insisted on zonal intervention or constituency projects because it is the only way to attract Federal presence to their people. Dogara said if not for constituency projects that were included in […]
By Seun Adebosin LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has condemned the attack on a woman in Kano who was accused of blasphemy and charged the Nigerian Police to get to the root of the matter. MURIC which called for the sanctions against the culprits, stressed that nobody has the right […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Late Muhammad Ali, the world boxing icon’s battled in the last 12 months with an impair health before he eventually died late last Friday, so confirmed by his physician, Abraham Lieberman. According to Dr. Lieberman who was with the boxer, until he breathed his last, confirmed that the last week […]
By Oyewale Oyelola BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is committed to concluding the suspended elections in Rivers, Imo, Kogi and Kano states which were disrupted by violence not later than 31st July, 2016.. A statement signed by the Director, Voter Education and Publicity, Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi on Sunday said the […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ekiti State workers on Sunday asked Governor Ayodele Fayose to shelve his solidarity strike he declared on Friday in honour of the striking workers, saying what we want is our money to alleviate our poverty and not his solidarity strike. Fayose, had on Friday declared that he had placed himself on indefinite strike in solidarity […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ahead of the forthcoming judgment of the Kogi State Election Petition Tribunal, a civil rights movement under the aegis of Kogi Patriotic Front (KPF), has alleged that Governor Yahaya Bello, has given out N1.5 billion to the three justices to influence verdict to his favour. The group said, the deal was […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – In view of the prevailing economic situation in the country, Sokoto state government said it will provide free feeding and other forms of assistance to less privileged members of the society during the Islamic holy month of ramadan. The Sokoto Governor, Aminu Tambuwal stated this on Sunday according to a statement issued […]
By Ignatius Okpara, Enugu There are strong indications that Governor Lawrence Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, of Enugu state, may have concluded plan to announce his first cabinet reshuffle since assumption of office a year ago. AFRICAN EXAMINER reliably gathered that the proposed shake- up targeted at some non performing Commissioners, Special Advisers, (SPAs), may also affect Secretary to […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – US President Barrack Obama has paid tribute to the late world boxing legend, Muhammad Ali. Obama in his condolence message Saturday declared “Muhammad Ali shook up the world. And the world is better for it”. Ali, the three-time world heavyweight champion and one of the world’s greatest sporting figures – […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Muhammad Ali, who died late Friday evening aged 74, was one of the greatest icons of the 20th century, one of the world’s greatest boxers of all time, and certainly in his time, and during the era that he dominated the ring, the greatest among his contemporaries, the inimitable master of […]
A former deputy governor of Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore has dragged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) before a Federal High Court in Abuja over alleged defamation and falsehood. Omisore said the commission was wrong to have declared him wanted even as he asked the court to award him N10 billion “for libel […]
Thirty Nigerien troops and two Nigerian soldiers have been killed in clashes with Boko Haram militants in Niger, the country’s defence ministry says. It says “hundreds of assailants” attacked a military post in the south-eastern town of Bosso, on the Nigerian border, on Friday night. A counter-attack on Saturday morning allowed government troops to retake […]
The Mediterranean Sea for three days last week claimed over seven hundred lives. The extent of this tragedy, was enough for the United Nations to call an emergency Security Council meeting. But no serious reaction came from those who claim to be protectors of the human race. On Wednesday, May 25, a boat carrying about 600 persons capsized. The […]
