*Targets $20bn Investments Inflow into NNPC In 2016 The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC Dr. Ibe Kachikwu has indicated that the country may well be on the verge of a significant oil find in the lake Chad area in North East Nigeria based on analysis of recent seismic 3D data […]
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Enugu State chapter of All Progressive Congress, APC has disowned purported media reports, alleging that its leadership was against the nomination of the Minister designate from the area, Barr. Jeffery Onyeama. It said such mischievous write- ups were the handiwork of some selfish individuals, who claimed […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari Saturday in a 25 minutes telephone call, urged members of the Golden Eaglets and their officials to strive for victory tomorrow in the final with the Mali of the Under-17 FIFA World Cup holding in Chile. Buhari who began the call with the Head Coach, Emmanuel Amuneke, […]
By Inibehe Effiong The decision of the Taraba State Governorship Election Tribunal delivered on Saturday, 7th November, 2015 has a lot of implications for our electoral jurisprudence. The judgment has laid down a radical, novel and insightful precedent in Nigeria. There is no judicial authority known to me whose facts are on all fours with […]
By Ayo Balogun, Lagos BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has faulted the Saturday ruling of the Taraba Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, which upturned the victory of Governor Darius Ishaku, alleging that it is another evidence of executive interference on the country’s judiciary. Reacting hours after Justice Musa Ababakar’s led […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Bayelsa State governor, Henry Seriake Dickson on Saturday continued his community-based campaign tour and stormed the country home of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Timipre Sylva. He assured them of his administration’s resolve to award the multi billion Naira Nembe/Brass Road during the first quarter of 2016, if […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Four siblings have died in a collapsed building tragedy at Magodo area of Lagos, Nigeria on Saturday. The siblings were sleeping when the 3-bedroom bungalow building collapsed as a result of mound slide in the area, while their father was lucky to have escaped death. The incident occurred at No. […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL) has condemned in strong terms, the apparent indecorous and rascally behaviours of a group of senators numbering about 40 who had accompanied the Senate President, Bukola Saraki to the Code of Conduct Tribunal on Thursday to answer to charges of false declaration of assets […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Election Tribunal sitting in Abuja has nullified the election of the Taraba State Governor, Darius Ishaku of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and declared Alhaja Aisha Alhassan of All Progressives Congress (APC) winner of April 11, 2015 gubernatorial poll. Chairman of the Tribunal, Justice Musa Abubakar, had on October […]
The Rivers State Chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, has welcomed what it described as the “uncommon courage” displayed by Mr. Opunabo Inko-Tariah in resigning as the Special Adviser, Media and Publicity to the embattled governor of Rivers State. “As a party, the APC knew that it was only a matter of time before all […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Federal Ministries of Works and Lands, Housing and Urban Development to urgently prepare and present for approval and implementation, a plan of action for the speedy revitalisation and expansion of the nation’s vocational training centres. President Buhari gave the directive after being told at […]
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Onitsha Heavily armed security operatives, including Soldiers, on friday in Onitsha, Anambra State, clashed with protesting supporters of the Director of Radio Biafra and leader of the indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. The protesters, had paralysed both socio and economic activities in the commercial city, a development that brought vehicular […]
By Eric Ojo President of African Securities Exchanges Association (ASEA), Oscar Onyema has attributed Africa’s impressive economic transformation in recent times to the major role being played by the capital markets across the continent. Onyema said capital markets have been the key drivers of economic progress in Africa and have continued to play a central […]
The 19 communities that made up Brass constituency 3 area of Bayelsa state on Friday came out in their thousands to endorse the re-election of Governor Henry Seriake Dickson. The communities include are Sangana, Kongho, Ogbokiri, Bekekiri and others. In what appeared like a carnival laced with politics, people trooped out enmasse to give the […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, on Friday lauded the indomitable spirit displayed so far by the Golden Eaglets of Nigeria at the on-going FIFA Under-17 World Cup in Chile, after they defeated their Mexican counterparts 4-2 , to qualify for the finals of the tournament. Saraki in a statement by his […]
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Friday issues Tank farm owners in the state to build loading bays or be shutdown, even as he read the riot act to commercial motorcycle operators popularly called Okada riders, commercial buses and street hawkers as government will no longer tolerate their nefarious activities on the streets and […]
A new twist may have crept into the December 5 governorship election in Bayelsa State as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Seriake Dickson, are making moves to stop the All Progressives Congress (APC ) candidate, Timipre Sylva, from contesting the election by instituting a legal action on the grounds that he had […]
By Tajudeen Balogun, Head, African Examiner, Nigeria Bureau The incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari has been consistently and repeatedly linked with the zero tolerance to corruption. Perhaps, his best alternative appellation could be “Mr. No Corruption”. For instance, his short-lived Military junta (1983-1985) confronted this national challenge relentlessly; introduced some disciplinary policies and attempted change of […]
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has assured Nigerians that it will not renege on its campaign promise to pay 5,000 Naira each monthly to 25 million most vulnerable Nigerians, while calling on the public to ignore the “mischievous attempt” by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to confuse and mislead them on this issue. […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Restoration Campaign Organization has accused the All progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Timipre Sylva, as the brain behind the delay in the release of the state’s N1.6 billion bailout fund. The government had applied for the said fund to pay local government workers who are being owed six months […]
