Cesc Fabregas has joined Chelsea in a £27million deal – four months after telling his new boss Jose Mourinho to “shut up”. The former Arsenal captain had a war of words with Mourinho while at Barcelona. Before Barca’s Champions League win over Manchester City, the Londoners’ boss Mourinho claimed Fabregas was part of the Catalans’ […]
A hugely controversial penalty helped turn the game around for the hosts after Marcelo’s own goal had given Croatia a shock lead played as Brazil beat Croatia 3-1 in the opening game of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Thursday. After a build-up marred by social unrest and demonstrations, fireworks lit up the night sky over […]
President Goodluck Jonathan says some ‘’anti-democratic’’ forces are working to scuttle the 2015 elections. President Jonathan raised the alarm at the All Nigeria Political Parties and Political Stakeholders Summit, Abuja, one of the series of events held, on Thursday, across the country in commemoration of the 21st anniversary of the June 12, 1993 presidential polls […]
Fears of a plan to Islamise Nigeria are unfounded, Sultan Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III said on Thursday. Sultan Abubakar, who is the President General of the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), also called on President Goodluck Jonathan to reconsider dialogue with the Boko Haram insurgents. The traditional ruler spoke in Abuja while opening the […]
Delegates at the ongoing National Conference on Thursday unanimously voted for the removal of immunity clause from the nation’s constitution. This implies that President Goodluck Jonathan, governors and the top echelon of the National Assembly will no longer be protected by the constitution whenever they infringe on the law. According to the conference delegates, the […]
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has disclosed that some of the school girls abducted in Chibok, Borno state by Boko haram sect in April 2014 may never return to their family. Obasanjo stated this on Thursday in an interview on the Hausa Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation, monitored by African Examiner. Obasanjo, who ruled Nigeria […]
Oyewale Oyelola The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested three suspected fraudsters involved in forgery, impersonation and fraudulent sale of shares to the tune of N73,764,428( Seventy Three Million, Seven Hundred and Sixty Four Thousand, Four Hundred Twenty Eight Naira ). The EFCC Spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren made this known in press release made […]
Jacob Oyewale Students of the Lagos State University (LASU) on Thursday insisted the Lagos state government must reduce their school fees by 67percent. The students therefore rejected the offer of the Lagos State Government to reduce some fees by percentage points, depending on the faculty or department. The president, LASU Student Union, Comrade Nurudeen Yusuf […]
Agabus Pwanagba As the 20th FIFA world cup kicks off today in Brazil, the Plateau State Police Command has banned all Football viewing centers in the State. The Command’s Public Relations Officer ASP Dominic Esin , in a press statement made available to African Examiner in Jos on Thursday, said, “This is to inform members […]
A Federa High Court in Maitama area of Abuja, on Thursday fixed July 14 for judgment in a suit challenging an earlier ban by the FCT Commissioner of Police, Mr. Joseph Mbu on Bring Back Our Girls rallies in Abuja. Punch reported before the matter was argued and adjourned for judgment on Friday, counsel to […]
June 12, 2014 Notable Lagos based Nigerian musicians have come together to express support to the Super Eagles in their campaign at the 2014 FIFA World Cup tournament in Brazil which kicks off later today . In the lead were: Ice Prince, Sasha P, Sheyi Shay, Nosa and Dammy Krane. They recorded a joint song […]
June 12, 2014 A court in Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi on today ordered government to lift a travel ban on the country’s former Military ruler, Pervez Musharraf in 15 days’ time. AFP indicated quoted the former ruler Counsel a Farogh Naseem.as saying “The court has allowed our appeal and ordered to strike down Musharraf’s […]
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Aba Armed gunmen on wednesday invaded Tansi Catholic Church at World Bank Housing Estate, Abayi, Aba, Abia state and dispossessed a priest, Rev. Father Emeka Okoro of substantial undisclosed amount and other valuables. African Examiner learnt that the hoodlums who were over ten in number entered the church’s parsonage through the back fence […]
Agabus Pwanagba The Plateau State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrest 5 persons for oil bunkering in Bassa LGA of Plateau State. The suspects were arrested with 164 gericans of fuel. Among the five persons arrested are two soldiers attached to the 3 Armored Division of the Nigeria Army […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Onitsha A peaceful protest by members of the Civil Liberties Organization, (CLO) Anambra State chapter in Onitsha, over the abduction of Chibok school girls turned violent on Wednesday as armed thugs suspected to be members of the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, (MASSOB) attacked some activists including the […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Awka As the remains of former Director General, National Agency for Foods and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Professor Dora Akunyili arrived the country from India, the Speaker of Anambra State House of Assembly, Mrs Chinwe Nwaebili, has requested the State Government to immortalize the late amazon. The request was made on […]
By Femi Kehinde Senator Dahiru Awaisu Kuta is dead. He is a Senator representing Niger East Senatorial District. He died today at the age of 65 after a brief illness. Before his untimely death, he was the chairman, Senate Committee on Federal Character & Inter- Governmental Affairs. A Glimpse into Senator Dahiru Awaisu Kuta’s Life […]
By Tajudeen Balogun Today marks 21 years after the annulment of June 12, 1993 Presidential election. The exercise till date is generally applauded the Nigeria’s freest and fairest election. The Military President and Commander-in-Chief of Armed Forces then, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida although admitted that the general feeling in the country during after the election […]
Jacob Oyewale The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) on Wednesday rejected the nomination of Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke as Secretary-General, the delegates however supported Libyan Abdullah al-Badri to continue to hold the position. African Examiner reports on Tuesday that President Jonathan had nominated Nigerian Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, to succeed the long-serving […]
Prostitutes working in Brazil’s biggest red light district are offering World Cup “specials” to foreign fans, just in time for the Greatest Show on Earth. As the tournament finally arrives in the spiritual home of football, around 4,000 girls in Rio’s Vila Mimosa – or the City of Tender Love – are ready for a […]
