IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu The Enugu state Commissioner for lands, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ujam, may soon be in trouble over his alleged involvement in a land scandal belonging to the southeast zonal offfice of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). Dr. Ujam, our correspondent gathered is accused of re- allocating a piece of land belonging to the […]
Oyewale Oyelola The Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) has warned Federal Government not to deploy military officers to polling units for 2015 general elections. The INEC, Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for Ondo state, Mr. Akin Orebiyi said this in Media chat on the inclusive election to Ilaje/Ese -odo Federal Constituency. Orebiyi said the deployment of military […]
The outgoing regime of “Engr” Rauf Aregbesola from all intent and purposes did not just establish the fact that the his administration in Osun state is perhaps an Annexe of the Bourdillon road Lagos, he has practically manifested this in the modus operandi of his government. Capital flight has been a major characteristics of the […]
Mona Ogbeidi President of the Nigerian Senate, Senator David Mark has reiterated his commitment to working towards bringing a lasting solution to the challenges of insecurity in the country. Mark who made this declaration, while addressing his Benue South constituents from the 9 local government areas making up the Benue South Senatorial district in his […]
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has said that the Minister of Petroleum Resources and Chairman of NNPC board, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke and the Group Managing Director of the Corporation, Engr. Andrew Yakubu are in harmonious working relationship and dismissed insinuations in some quarters of a phantom frosty relationship between the two key figures in […]
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu The people of Oduma community, in Aninri council area of Enugu state has ignored the recent order by Enugu state government, banning traditional Rulers in the state from conferring chieftaincy title on any body, as they conferred different titles on Deputy senate president, (DSP) Ike Ekweremadu, and three other personalities. African Examiner […]
Officials of recreation centres in Abuja, popularly called “gardens’’, on Saturday lamented the low patronage their business suffered ahead of the weekend’s Easter celebrations. The fear over insecurity owing to threats that members of the Boko Haram Sects had invaded the Federal capital Territory of Abuja is said to be largly responsible for withdrawal of […]
2 years after, the governor of Osun State, “Engr” Rauf Aregbesola is yet to pay any retirement benefit to the Teachers who were massively “sacked” among other workers by his government in the year 2012. These teachers some of whom are either aged or bread winners of their various families have remained subjected to varying […]
Mona Ogbeidi The Lagos police command says its attention has been drawn to one of its officers caught on camera beating up a woman even as it added that the officer has been identified and put behind bars. The Lagos police boss Umar Manko stated this on Friday through a statement issued in Lagos by […]
Oyewale Oyelola The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Doyin Okupe has stated that Nigeria is in war with Boko Haram. Doyin Okupe said this while responding to questions from Journalists on federal government effort in tackling terrorism in Nigeria. His words: “Nigeria is in war situation with Boko Haram. We are […]
Kayode Adelowokan As Nigeria joined the rest of the world to celebrate this year’s Easter, the Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun has enjoined Nigerians to always resolve their religious differences amicably rather than resort to violence. Amosun in his Easter message noted the triumph of Jesus Christ over death through His resurrection, adding that […]
Kayode Adelowokan The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL) has flayed the Federal Government over the $470m (N76bn) National Public Security Communications System Project in Abuja. The contract, which was awarded by the Federal Government and completed in 2012, aimed at providing voice, video and data using the Code Division Multiple Access technology to enable security […]
The leader of Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamists, Abubakar Shekau, has claimed responsibility for the Monday bombing in Nyanya Bus Park killing at least 75 people. The Islamist said in the 28 minutes video “We are the ones that carried out the attack in Abuja.” In the video Shekau is seen seated with a Kalashnikov rifle […]
By Ayo Balogun No fewer that 14 students have again escaped from their Boko Haram abductors and have since been reunited with their families, the Borno State Commissioner for Education, Musa Kubo has confirmed. Kubo said 12 of the girls were found in the forest near Chibok Town where Boko Haram abducted them on Monday […]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of politicizing Nigeria’s security by engaging in outright deception to exclude APC Governors from the meeting the President himself had called for Thursday to discuss the security situation in the country. In a statement issued in Lagos on Friday […]
In line with the resolution of the Police High Command to ensure a seamless and secure Easter Celebration and beyond, the Nigeria Police Force has commenced special operations nationwide. The operations encompass extensive counter-terrorism sweeps, detailed overt and covert surveillance operations, intelligence-driven raids, arms mop-up exercise, special stop and search exercise, amongst others. Police operatives […]
By Mona Ogbeidi The Muslim Rights Concern has described the Nigerian State Security Services as unprofessional security outfit following statements issued by the agency urging all churches around the country to be alert and security conscious. The group’s Director Professor Ishaq Akintola, in a statement, stressed that the statement exposes the prejudice in Nigeria’s security […]
By Mona Ogbeidi In the light of the ongoing insecurity across Nigeria, the Muslim Rights Concern MURC, a religious group has condemned the spate of violence in past weeks even as it lamented concentration of the security paraphernalia around high-ranking political office holders. The group, in a statement signed by its Director, Professor Ishaq Akintola, […]
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu The entire Aji Community, in Igbo Eze North Local Government Area, of Enugu State, has been thrown into serious confusion and tension, following the alleged killing of a middle aged man, Obinna Onoja, by a faction of the community’s vigilante group. African Examiner reports that the unfortunate incident is coming barely one […]
Agabus Pwanagba, Jos The All Progressive Congress (APC) was conspicuously absent at the first training for all political party Chairmen in Nigeria, with the other 24 parties well represented. The training was organized by the Political Parties Leadership and Policy Development Centre which is situated at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) […]
