BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Eritrea is a relatively unknown African country. Little news filters out. In October 2012, I wanted to pay with a hundred dollar bill in a Washington supermarket, and the cashier declined. He asked me to pay with a smaller denomination, which I did not have. Noticing his features, I asked […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chairman of the National Assembly and President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki has directed a review of all security arrangements in the National Assembly to keep the institution abreast of the current challenges in the country, especially now that the Boko Haram insurgency has receded. According […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate has responded to the statement by the former interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande in which he described the claim that the 2016 budget was missing from the upper legislative chamber as an indication of the indiscipline that produced […]
By Eric Ojo, Abuja The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said that the ripples generated by the relative economic slowdown in China may have some negative impacts on the economies of countries in the African continent. The Fund noted that Africa is affected by changes in China’s economic dynamics because she is currently the continent’s […]
President Muhammadu Buhari will Sunday, January 17, 2016 embark on a three-day official visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). During the visit, President Buhari will join the Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki Moon, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan of Abu Dhabi and other participants as a special guest of […]
The Iran’s Nuclear deal talk with the United States (US) seems to be making headway, as the oil reach Arab Nation Saturday announced the release of the US based daily, reporter, Jason Rezaian and three other Iranian-American prisoners. The latest development followed the Iranian Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif who ealier predicted that international sanctions against […]
By Abdul Gaffar Bello Another suspected Lassa fever victim has died Friday at the State House Clinic (SHC) in Abuja. The victim, who came from Kaduna, has been ill for the past two weeks, was reportedly rushed to the clinic, but later breathe his last. Among of the complications he developed before he died were […]
The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL) has backed the Economic and Financial Crime Commission’s (EFCC’s) decision to reopen the investigation into the $180million Siemens, Halliburton scam, saying it will ensure diligent prosecution of all culprits and it will enable the nation to get more of the looted funds from the United States. The Federal Government […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson on Friday presented a N150 billion Appropriation Bill tagged Budget of Transition for the 2016 fiscal year, as against N250 bn passed into law in 2015 to the State House of Assembly. The recurrent expenditure as presented to the State House of Assembly for […]
By Ayo Balogun, Lagos BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The first case of the deadly Lassa fever has been recorded in Lagos as the victim is now being isolated at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH. Lassa Fever has killed over 40 people in Nigeria, with scores of others being quarantined as the fever gathers […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to the Nigerian troops fighting dreaded Boko Haram insurgents in the North Eastern zone, not to relent in their efforts in stamping out the activities of the militants, as well as ensuring that the abducted Chibok Secondary School girls are discovered and safely rescued. Mr. President made […]
By Ignatius Okpara, Enugu Says Secession Is Its Goal Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has directed its members at home and in Diaspora to set for a massive demonstration, protest and a civil disobedience against the continued detention of leader of Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu, starting from […]
By Tajudeen Balogun, Head, African Examiner, Nigeria Bureau BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – It started like a child play. When the news first hit the airwaves Tuesday afternoon that the copy of the proposed 2016 Appropriation Bill has disappeared from where it was kept in the Senate, many Nigerians did not expect the raging volumes […]
By Ayo Balogun BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered an immediate probe of former service chiefs based on a recommendation by the committee established to audit the procurement of arms and equipment in the Armed Forces and Defence sector from 2007 to 2015. According to a statement signed by Mallam […]
By Ayo Balogun BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – National Publicity Secretary, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh has been sent to Kuje Prison by the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja in connection with the $2.1 billion arms scandal. Justice Abang Okon on resumption of sitting on Friday said said Metuh should be remanded in […]
Akintokunbo A Adejumo, akinadejum@aol.com BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – I have been musing over the conundrum above for a very long time, even before this new dispensation of the sincere and stern President Buhari, and I can’t get it off my mind, the possibility, that is. Corruption is defined nowadays simply as “The abuse of […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja The House of Representatives has insisted on buying 360 luxury cars for individual members to use for the committees’ activities, despite the fact that there are 96 standing panels. Responding to questions during a press briefing on Thursday, the spokesman of the House, Hon. Abdurazak Namdas said they would buy 360 cars […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – January 15 every year is Nigeria’s Armed Forces Remembrance Day: wreaths are laid, statements are made, soldiers, government officials and the Nigerian Legion attend parades, pigeons symbolizing peace are released, a dinner is organized for widows of fallen soldiers and there is so much talk about death and dying for […]
By Ayo Balogun BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – About half of the members of Governor Nyesome Wike’s cabinet was said to have indicated interest in defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The Rivers State Chapter of APC disclosed this in a statement in which it welcomed the latest […]
By Babs Ajayi BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The governorship election in Bayelsa State was recently concluded after a failed and abandoned one late last year. It was full of spat, blood, broken limbs, damaged properties, burnt houses, battered victims and murdered opponents. It was a fight-to-finish, to use that pedestrian phrase, and, produced mass […]
