Ondo State Governor Olusegun Mimiko yesterday in Akure, the state capital, declared his intention to run for a second term under the platform of the ruling Labour Party (LP). Many of the guests, including notable Yoruba leaders, were absent. Among them were the daughter of the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Dr Tokunbo Awolowo-Dosumu, and former […]
Aviation Minister Ms Stella Oduah has said the full restoration of the airfield lighting at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja, will boost passengers’ and operators’ confidence. The minister spoke yesterday in Abuja after the inspection and inauguration of the newly rehabilitated airfield lighting project. She said this would improve air safety. Ms Oduah […]
The Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of zone 9, Mr. Solomon Olusegun has revealed that a new salary scale is being worked out for the police to boost the morale of policemen and officers in the country. He spoke on Wednesday in Awka, when he visited the Anambra state command but warned that the […]
Consultant Pathologist and Chief Medical Examiner of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Prof. John Obafunwa, on Wednesday said there was evidence that some of the dead victims of the June 3 plane crash in Iju-Ishaga area of Lagos were still alive while the fire that resulted from the accident was burning. The crash involving […]
The leadership of Economic Community for West Africa (ECOWAS) has expressed shock over the demise of President John Atta-Mills, who died on Tuesday after a brief illness. ECOWAS in a statement obtained by African Examiner condoned with the Government and people of Ghana. The statement read “ECOWAS learnt with shock and sadness the passing away […]
It was meant to be a joke, but the joke became a costly one for Voula Papachristou, a Greek track star who has been banned from participating in the London Olympic over a tweet she posted on account, @papaxristoutj. Her tweet which was written in Greek was translated as “With so […]
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | July 26, 2012 – A major problem of Nigeria is the oil money. Oil money is extraordinary in that it does not come from any national effort, toil or sweat. It comes not from any agricultural, manufacturing, scientific or technological endeavor. It results not from our resourcefulness, innovation […]
By Anthony A. Kila | London, UK | July 26, 2012 – The honour of two apparently distinct and different bodies INEC and the NBA has been clearly challenged by two of their stakeholders and for everybody’s sake these two bodies cannot afford to pretend that the challenge was not thrown. INEC is the Independent […]
By Ben Agande Abuja — The Presidency, yesterday, shifted the blame for the slow implementation of the 2012 budget to the doorstep of the National Assembly, saying the insertion of constituency projects by the legislature into the original copy of the budget has significantly altered the budget. Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who addressed […]
BY JIMITOTA ONOYUME PORT HARCOURT – NO fewer than 20 houses, were, yesterday, set ablaze in Omudioga community, Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State, when irate youths reportedly went berserk over the death of a youth, who was simply identified as Benjamin. Details at press time were hazy but community sources said the rampaging […]
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