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Sunday, August 2nd, 2015
By Muhammad Ajah – “Our government will reinvigorate the civil service and critically review appointments, postings, placements, secondments and other related political appointments and rationalization of allocations and re-allocations of government buildings and infrastructure. This will ensure they confirm to best procedural practices, protect our historical monuments and ensure conformity with extant civil service rules […]
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Sunday, August 2nd, 2015
By Ignatius Okpara, Enugu – A foremost Socio cultural organization, Igbo Youth Movement, IYM, has thrown its full weight behind President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption war, just as it urges the administration to revisit the Siemens and Halliburton bribery scandals. The group, in a statement signed by its founder, Evangelist, Elliot Uko, made available to AFRICAN […]
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Sunday, August 2nd, 2015
By Ignatius Okpara, Asaba – Delta state Police Command has uncovered a baby factory in Asaba, the Delta state capital, where eight young girls were rescued. The state police public Relations officer, PPRO, Celestina Kalu, who disclosed this to newsmen, on Saturday said operator of the illegal outfit Mr. John Ihezun has been arrested by […]
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Sunday, August 2nd, 2015
By Ignatius Okpara, Enugu – The two million naira cash gift given to Rangers International FC of Enugu on Friday by the state governor, Ifeanyi Lawrence Ugwuanyi has torn the club apart over sharing formula. AFRICAN EXAMINER Sports reports that some officials of the Enugu club side, had on Friday morning after their training at […]
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Saturday, August 1st, 2015
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari says Boards of Federal Government parastatals, agencies, institutions and government-owned companies are not part of dissolutions announced on July 16, 2015. According to him, Vice Chancellors of Federal Universities have been informed of this exemption through a circular issued by the Head of the Civil Service of the […]
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Friday, July 31st, 2015
President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Alhaji Mohammed Kari as the new Commissioner for Insurance and Chief Executive of the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM). In a statement issued Friday by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adeshina, Buhari said Kari’s appointment, which is for a term of four years in the first instance, was […]
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Friday, July 31st, 2015
By Ayo Balogun – Two people have been killed as rival cult groups clashed in Lagos, Nigeria. The cultists clashed at the early hours of Friday at Ebute Metta area of Lagos. The clash of superiority was between the Eye and Black Axe Confraternity. The clash led to the death of Gbolahan, popularly called ‘Sepe’ […]
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Friday, July 31st, 2015
By Ayo Balogun- Three siblings of the same parents have been roasted in an overnight fire which erupted at a mechanic village in Isolo area of Lagos, Nigeria. The fire was said to have erupted around 2:30am behind Jakande Estate, Oke Afa in Isolo while people were sleeping. It was gathered that there were houses […]
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Friday, July 31st, 2015
By Ignatius Okpara, Awka – Another serious crisis has enveloped the Anambra state chapter of the opposition People’s Democratic Party, PDP, as two factions have emerged in the state. The political feud reared its ugly head barely six days after the state congress was held in Awka the state capital. A faction of the party […]
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Friday, July 31st, 2015
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – The All Progressives Congress (APC) has insisted that the DG of DSS, Mr. Lawal Daura, is not a card-carrying member of the party, saying nothing short of producing Mr. Daura’s membership card or evidence of his membership registration will convince discerning Nigerians that he is indeed a member of the APC […]
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Friday, July 31st, 2015
Written by Obinna Akukwe, @ObinnaAkukwe – Dayo Olutayo, Senior Pastor of Good Tidings Bible Church International (GTBCI) has displayed traits and unction which qualifies him to be addressed as possessing an apostolic dimension of divine favor. Dayo Olutayo is the controversial in-law to Bishop David Oyedepo, by reason of being the younger brother to Faith […]
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Friday, July 31st, 2015
The All Progressives Congress, APC, Rivers State Chapter has congratulated the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari for ordering the comprehensive probe of the N4trillion debt by 28 Ministries and their departments and agencies handed over by the immediate past administration of former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. “We are […]
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Friday, July 31st, 2015
A United States Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama where President Goodluck Jonathan’ s former aide, Mr. Kignsley Kuku is undergoing surgery yesterday confirmed that the operation was successful. Mr.Kuku who presided over Jonathan’ s Amnesty program for the Niger Delta militants, an initiative that was alleged to have marred with allegations of monumental frauds and embezzlement, […]
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Friday, July 31st, 2015
By Tajudeen Balogun, Head, African Examiner, Nigeria Bureau – Life is dynamic and full of many intrigues. Human being involves in most activities of the life as well as determines their outcome. Still, there is ironical dimension to strength and limitation of man. For instance, man is deceived; thinks his scope of knowledge is broad, […]
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Friday, July 31st, 2015
A bomb explosion has rocked Gamboru market on Friday morning in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital. African Examiner gathered that the explosion occurred near the entrance of Gamboru Market where operatives of commercial tricycles park to pick passengers. “We heard the blast at about 6:30am this morning and shortly afterwards, we saw people running from […]
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Thursday, July 30th, 2015
By Ayo Balogun – Immediate past Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh (rtd) has offered a hint as to why the Nigeria’s military is struggling in the fight against the deadly Boko Haram insurgency in North-east Nigeria. The former military boss, at his pull-out-parade on Thursday, claimed that successive governments in Nigeria […]
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Thursday, July 30th, 2015
An Orthodox Jew who stabbed marchers at a Jerusalem gay pride parade 10 years ago launched another knife attack at the same type of parade in the same city Thursday, stabbing and wounding six people who were on the streets for the event, police said. Video aired on Israel’s Channel 10 shows what appears to […]
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Thursday, July 30th, 2015
By Eric Ojo – Mr. Michael Zenner, the German Ambassador to Nigeria, has harped on the need to provide basic and further training to health workers in Nigeria in order to improve their competence in the control of Ebola and other highly contagious diseases. Ambassador Zenner said that strengthening the capacities of medical workers and […]
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Thursday, July 30th, 2015
President Muhammadu Buhari and President Paul Biya have agreed to work towards the completion of the demarcation of the land border between Nigeria and Cameroon before the end of the year. According to a communiqué issued Thursday at the conclusion of President Buhari’s official visit to Yaounde, both leaders welcomed the progress made thus far […]
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Thursday, July 30th, 2015
By Ignatius Okpara, Enugu – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC has begun investigation of alleged financial impropriety levelled against the administration of the Immediate past governor of Enugu state, Barrister Sullivan Chime, by some citizens of the area. A Source at the commission, who craved anonymity revealed on Thursday, that the anti-graft agency’s […]
