…Nab Native Doctor too for Raping 14-year-old Agabus Pwanagba, Jos In its efforts to fight crimes and criminality, the Plateau state police command has arrested ten men who specialized in raping underage girls, among them was a native doctor who raped a 14 year old girl who was taken to his house for treatment. The […]
By Eric Ojo Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has taken the war of attrition between him and Col. Tony Nyiam, a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee on National Dialogue, to a combative level, saying Nyiam lacks respect for constituted authority. The governor lamented that Nyiam’s unruly attitude and comportment during Committee’s sitting in […]
…As Lagos Records Shortfall In Budget In 14 Years Ayo Balogun, Lagos Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola has presented a budget of N489.69 billion to the State House of Assembly for approval for the 2014 fiscal year. Lagos State Governor Raji Fashola The budget represents a shortfall of about N10 billion when compared to the […]
Agabus Pwanagba, Jos Youths in Miya Barkatai Village in Toro Local Government Area of Bauchi State on Tuesday protested the killing of a motorcycle rider by a driver of a Vectra car along Bauchi-Jos Federal Highway. The Protesting Youths barricaded the road as motorists were trapped for about three hours causing long queues and a […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos The Lagos State Government has issued 60 days ultimatum to commercial bus drivers, conductors and bus owners to re-register their business. The government had earmarked 60 days to register all commercial bus drivers, owners and conductors in Lagos, Nigeria beginning from 1 November, 2013. The government said the exercise is in conformity […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos Nigeria’s President, Goodluck Jonathan has condoled with the family of former Chief of General Staff, Vice Admiral Mike Akhigbe (retd), who died in the United States on Monday. Late Mike Akhigbe Jonathan also condoled with the people of Edo State for losing their illustrious son, who had served the nation with distinction […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos The Chairman, House Committee on Diaspora Affairs, Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa has assured the family of the late Gabriel Soriwei, a 20-year-old student of Electrical/Electronic Engineering, who died in Cyprus, that the circumstances surrounding his death would be investigated and made known to Nigerians. Chairman, House Committee on Diaspora, Hon Abike Dabiri Gabriel, […]
Femi Kehinde President Goodluck Jonathan has notified the leadership of National Assembly of his intention to address and present the 2014 budget estimates to a joint session of the two houses on November 12, 2013. Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan In a letter conveyed to the two houses and dated October 23, 2013, was delivered to […]
The African Examiner The Alhaji Kawu Baraje led group has denied the reported resignation of the Niger State governor Babangida Aliyu from their faction. Niger State Governor, Babangida Aliyu Reacting to the purported resignation, the spokesman of the group Chief Eze C. Eze in a statement obtained by African Examiner described the story as “a […]
Agabus Pwanagba The Plateau State Government has said the recent Cholera outbreak in Namu District of Qua’an Pan Local Government Area of the State has so far claimed only 11 lives and 136 persons admitted in various health centres in the council, contrary to media reports that 30 people died as a result of the outbreak. Plateau State Governor […]
The African Examiner Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has expressed his shock and sadness over the death of former Chief of General Staff, retired Vice Admiral Mike Akhigbe. In a statement issued in Abuja by his Special Adviser on Media and Public Affairs, Malam Imam Imam, Tambuwal described Akhigbe as […]
By Ruth Bamidele A middle aged man, Yinka Fagbure, also known as Jide Babalola was on Tuesday jailed in Lagos for 12 Months for stealing 350,000.00 naira. The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) had arraigned the defendant before a Lagos High Court Ikeja, presided by Justice Atinuke Ipaye on a three-count charge of stealing, […]
By Eric Ojo, Pretoria In line with its mandate, the Association of International Financial & Investment Analysts has pledged to continue to promote and encourage professionalism and best practices amongst its members across the African continent. The association said it is poised to organize and facilitate training programmes regularly with a view to developing and […]
…As OHANAEZE, Igbo leaders Want Outcome Of Confab Subjected to Referendum Ignatius Okpara, Enugu The apex Igbo Social-Cultural Organisation, OHANAEZE Ndigbo, has recommended that the outcome of the proposed National dialogue be subjected to a national referendum/plebiscite, just as southeast governors shun the confab committee in Enugu. South East Governors Leadership of the umbrella […]
Femi Kehinnde Niger State governor, Babangida Aliyu has debunked a report in the media that he has abandoned the new PDP and the G-7 governors due to irreconcilable differences, insisting that the story was planted by political adversaries. Niger State Governor, Babangida Aliyu The governor, while receiving the national executive council of the Public Service […]
The African Examiner, The Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria (CRCN) has faulted the President Goodluck Jonathan’s National Conference, saying it is another diversionary circus aimed at setting the north against the south in a war of words that will only overheat the polity. Chairman Advisory Committee, Dr Femi Okunrounmu President of CRCN, Shehu Sani said […]
Ignatius Okpara, Enugu Erstwhile governor of Imo state, Chief Achike Udenwa, has advised the seven Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) breakaway governors, to reconsider their actions and embrace peace in the ruling party if they are still interested in it, or come over to All Progressive Change APC. Ex-Imo governor Chief Achike Udenwa Udenwa, who also […]
Ignatius Okpara, Enugu Worried by the alarming number of deaths recorded on Nigerian roads, the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has opened a window of synergy between it and the Federal Roads Safety Corps, FRSC, as it organized training for staff of the corps on vehicle extrication and handling of victims of mass casualty during […]
The Taxpayers Association of Nigeria (TAPAN), has cautioned politicians against making comments that could derail the proposed national dialogue, insisting that it is not a political party affair. TAPAN, at a news conference addressed by the President, Phillip Ilukholo, flanked by the BOT chairman, Comrade Val Nzekwe and Director Finance/Administration, Obinna Okafor, also asked the […]
Chief of Staff to the Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr. Olusegun Olushesi has died of prostate cancer in the United States. Lawmakers in the assembly were left to mourn the deceased, who was the Chief of Staff to the Speaker, Hon. Adeyemi Ikuforiji. He was said to have passed on in North Carolina, […]
