Agabus Pwanagba, Jos Following the recent Ebola virus scourge that is bedeviling some West African countries, and with a few cases in Nigeria, a group under the named Bagos Foundation has flagged off an awareness campaign in Jos the Plateau State Capital. Chairman of the group Dachung Musa on Tuesday in Jos lamented how some […]
Two children have been burnt to death at Mafoluku area of Lagos, Nigeria, says the Director, Lagos State Fire Service, Rasak Fadipe. Fadipe says the two children, aged 2 each got burnt when a storey building they reside at No.43, Salami Street, Mafoluku area of Oshodi, Lagos got razed down by fire around 8:38pm on […]
Former Adamawa State Deputy Governor, Bala Ngilari’s suit in a Federal High Court, Abuja, seeking the state’s Acting Governor, Umaru Finitiri be sacked and he sworn in, as the Governor, suffered another set back today as parties to the suit failed to appear in court and complained of not being properly served. While the Independent […]
Pop star Rihanna is ready to invest in a Premier League club with the Liverpool her team of choice. Chris Brown’s ex has been advised to buy Liverpool by her close friend and Chelsea star Didier Drogba. While it seems highly unlikely Liverpool’s current owners – the Fenway Sports Group – would sell given the […]
Efforts geared towards fighting dreaded Ebola Virus Diseases (EVD) has been intensified in the country as designated centre for the suspected victims has been opened in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. The FCT Minister, Bala Mohammed announced this Tuesday while inaugurating a 25 – member committee during an interactive forum to work on the […]
Ignatius Okpara, Owerri The Nigerian Customs Service’s Federal Operations Unit, FOU Zone C, Owerri, has confiscated contraband goods worth N252 million in the last one month in the South- East and South- southern zones of the country. Area Comptroller in charge of the zone, Dimka Victor David, who disclosed this to newsmen in Owerri, warned […]
Nigeria’s hip hop and Yoruba wrapper star, Abolore Akande popular called 9ice’s has expressed interest to venture into politics in his Ogbomoso home stead, Oyo state, South Western Nigeria. Akande, the ‘Gongo Aso’ initiator as posted on his Instagram portal had indicated interest to contest for a seat in the nation’s lower – House of […]
By Godwin Adindu THERE is a yellow rainbow across the skyline of Abia State, a syndrome pervading the state. The colour, yellow, is ubiquitous in all nooks and crannies and has transformed into a mental construct. There is yellow everywhere. Governor Theodore Orji has painted Abia yellow with his Youth Empowerment Programme. For a visitor […]
By Prof. R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria Terrorism simply refers to any act of violence, intimidation, terror campaign from any source, bombing and all similar insurgencies. To that effect we can assert that Nigeria has got her plates very full of any class of violence right now in the society. Boko Haram has […]
Ignatius Okpara, Umuahia Governor Theodore Ahamefula Orji, of Abia state, on Monday tongue lashed the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) governorship aspirant in the state, Chief Chikwe Udensi, over his recent media comments that civil servants in the state were presently being owed five months backlog salary arrears. Orji, who is also the chairman of […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Abakaliki Police in Ebonyi State have arrested a 20-year-old suspect identified as Chukwuma, who allegedly majors in killing of women as well as having intercourse with them. African Examiner gathered that the suspect recently allegedly killed three women along farm pathways in the state and had sex with them. The State Police […]
…As Jonathan Meets With Governors, Health Commissioners On the virus The United States Of America (USA) has agreed to make available sample doses of her ZMAP experimental drug to Liberia to treat its doctors who have been infected with deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). Liberian President, Mrs Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, announced on her official website […]
The death has occurred of the United States (US) comedy icon, Robin Williams. Wiliams died at the age of 63 in his San Francisco Bay Area home late Monday. The death confirmation was made in his sheriff’s office where the preliminary investigation linked it to suicide due to asphyxia. The late stage and screen comedy […]
Ekiti State Governor-Elect, Mr Ayo Fayose, has said he will not divert statutory allocations meant for local governments in the state to any local council development area (LCDA). A press statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Idowu Adelusi, in Ado-Ekiti yesterday, quoted Fayose as saying this while featuring on a phone-in programme on the […]
Agabus Pwanagba, Jos A youth group within the Plateau’s chapter of the All Progressive Congress (APC) – Integrity Group has backed the party’s National Secretariat on the annulment of the election which produced Hon. Latep Dabang as the state’s Chairman and authenticated Hon. Amos Gombi as the new head. The group in a press […]
The results of May/June 2014 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) conducted by the West Africa Examination Council, (WAEC) have been released with mass failure in two compulsory subjects – English Language and Mathematics. The Head, WAEC National Office, Yaba Lagos, Mr. Charles Eguridu while annoucing on Monday the latest result revealed that a […]
The Acting Inspector General of Police, (IGP) Suleiman Abba has just decorated three newly promoted Commissioners of Police, with a call that they should live up to the demands of the insignia of their new status. The new CPs included Aminchi Samaila Baraya, Alkali Baba Usman and Dan Bature. At a very brief ceremony on […]
Delta state Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has regretted the sudden transition on Saturday, August 9, of an online Publisher and a member of the state’s Executive Council, Mr. Sunny Ofili. Late Ofili who died late Saturday in a ghastly auto crash along Benin-Asaba Expressway, was until his demise the Special Adviser to the Governor on […]
Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola says 5 out of the 10 Nigerians infected with the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) are responding to treatment at the Isolation Unit, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria. The governor disclosed this at a meeting with traditional rulers and religious leaders on Monday at the State House, Ikeja, Lagos over the Ebola […]
Members of the National Conference 2014 resumed today after over three weeks of recess, with the copy of the drafted constitution distributed among the delegates as well as request for more days for members to study the proposed constitution. The secretariat of the CONFAB has in a statement penultimate last week, by its Assistant Secretary, […]
