President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday visited victims of the Friday’s attack that rocked Kuje and Nyanya area of Abuja. Buhari who was accompanied to the National Hospital by Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State and some top government officials promised the survivors that Federal Government will settle their medical bills. Our correspondent reports that the […]
Arsenal justified Arsene Wenger’s pre-match title talk as three early goals blew away Manchester United at the Emirates. Alexis Sanchez (6) and Mesut Ozil (7) scored within 33 seconds before the Chilean belted a third to leave United three-down inside 20 minutes for the first time in the Premier League era. Petr Cech made a […]
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The popular Obollo-afor market in Udenu Council area of Enugu state was over the weekend thrown into pandemonium, as an ancestral tree fell during a heavy down pour, killing a woman, her daughter, and a roadside auto mechanic. According to the Enugu state police public Relations […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Rivers State Chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, says it has uncovered a plot by Governor Nyesom Wike and the PDP in Rivers State to use both the traditional and new media to blackmail the APC as using Federal might to intimidate PDP witnesses at the Rivers State Governorship […]
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Fresh facts have emerged on why the leadership of the apex Igbo socio cultural organisation, Ohaneze Ndigbo, could not hold the 2015 Igbo day celebration. The annual event, being coordinated by Ohaneze leadership, normally takes place on 29th September of every year in any of the […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has warned the Acting National Chairman of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, to leave former Rivers State Chibuike Amaechi, alone or the party would be forced to expose him. Rivers APC gave the warning in a statement signed […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Fresh crisis is believed to be tearing apart the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State as the choice of who becomes the deputy to the the governorship candidate, Timipre Sylva, is causing unease among party leaders and the nucleus of the campaign organization. Sylva had earlier promised in his […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The ‘Mangrove Boys of Bayelsa’, a body gradually becoming a pressure group in Bayelsa State, has debunked claims that its planned 10,000-man protest against the candidacy of former governor Timipre Sylva was being sponsored by the state government. Rather, the protest now scheduled to hold in Yenagoa, the state capital, […]
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has urged Nigerians not to despair and give in to terrorists’ blackmail, which he said, is the Boko Haram’s psychological tool for intimidating and forcing citizens into surrender and inaction. Reacting to the latest multiple bomb blasts in the suburbs of Abuja, the first since April 2014, the former Vice […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Debt Management Office (DMO) has helped to facilitate bailout for 23 states of the federation by working out an arrangement under which their domestic debts were restructured for repayment over a much longer period. Director General of DMO, Dr. Abraham Nwankwo, disclosed this on Friday while speaking at a […]
By Prof. R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria Nigeria had hit a plateau in its socioeconomic growth curve at 55 because the nation hadn’t been experiencing growth, we aren’t seeing as many industries as we ought to, not many and brilliant innovations coming. Just pure intriguing politicking, outright deception, government contractors are simply agents […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned as barbaric and cowardly, Friday night’s bomb attacks in Nyanya and Kuje satellite towns of Abuja, Nigeria. PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, in a statement on Saturday said the party was shocked by the news of the gruesome attacks in the […]
By Femi Fani-Kayode I support the call by Afenifere that all Fulani herdsmen should be banned from the south-west. Actually I believe that they should be banned from the entire south and not just the south west. I also stand by every word that I wrote in my widely published essay titled ”The Herdsmen From […]
BALTIMORE, MD *AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chelsea’s terrible start to the season continued as Southampton came from behind to record a stunning victory at Stamford Bridge. The Premier League champions took an early lead through Willian’s free-kick. Steven Davis drove in an equaliser before Sadio Mane ran through after a defensive error to put Saints ahead. […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Solomon Arase has ordered massive deployment of policemen on a stop-and-search of vehicles in and around Abuja following Friday’s bombing of Nyanya and Kuje area in the Federal Capital Territory by terrorists. The IGP assured residents and the entire country not to panic as the […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Emmanuel Philips, a former officer of the Department of State Security, DSS who was apparently discharged from service came to the Rivers State Elections Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abuja today, claiming he provided security in 10 local governments which included Port Harcourt, Obio/Akpo, Emohua, Akuku-Toru, Asari-Toru, Abua/Odual, Ahoada East, Ahoada […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A plot to rig the forthcoming elections in Kogi and Bayelsa State has been uncovered, a group, Peace Network Initiative (PNI) claimed on Saturday. The advocacy group promoting non-violence, peace and development, said in a statement in Abuja that some powerful vested interests were on top of the plot to […]
*20 Killed, 40 Injured In the Attack Two bomb blasts have rocked the outskirts of the Nigerian capital, with casualties reported, officials say. The first struck near a police station in Kuje, 25 miles (40km) from Abuja, the second hit a bus stop in Nyanya. One official said 10 people had been “critically injured”. However, […]
By Tajudeen Balogun, Head, African Examiner, Nigeria Bureau BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – I wish to begin this commentary with an aspect of Thursday’s Nigerian 55th Independence Anniversary, significantly for its relevance on the focus today. The area that inevitably caught my attention was many anniversary (venue) pictures (as posted on social media) of President […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The APC governorship candidate for Akwa Ibom State in the 2015 general elections, Mr Umana Okon Umana, has dismissed as totally false and without any basis in facts, a publication in the social media which claims that he, Mr Umana, has criticised and rejected President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial nomination for […]
