(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Teenager Kylian Mbappe scored two goals in four minutes to send France charging into the World Cup quarter-finals and Lionel Messi home with a thrilling 4-3 win over Argentina on Saturday. The 19-year-old forward’s electric pace caused Argentina many problems all afternoon and his twin strikes helped France overturn a 2-1 deficit. […]
By Ekene Odigwe (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – It is a common sight to see the police stop and search individuals on transit in a broad day light and then go on to forcefully extort money from the passengers and even collect their phones before inquiring for identification, woe to you, if there’s none. In some cases […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Suspected herdsmen have killed one person and rustled nine cows in Jos, Plateau,DSP Terna Tyopev, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) for the Police Command in the state has said. He said this while confirming the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Jos. Tyopev said the cows […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A gas explosion on Saturday evening burnt down 14 shops and a pharmacy with one person injured. The incident occurred at about 5:40 pm on Ibrahim Taiwo Road by Abeokuta street in Kaduna. NAN reports that residents mobilised to put out the fire before it spread further in the densely populated area. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Without further ado, the 16 teams that have qualified to play in the second round of the ongoing World Cup are set once again to do battle with each other for the quarter-finals slots. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that 16 teams qualified for the knockout stage of the FIFA […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – FIFA has defended the fair play criteria used to rank teams with equal records in the World Cup group stage. Senegal became the first team in World Cup history to be eliminated because of their disciplinary record in Russia. They finished level on points with Group H runners-up Japan, but were shown […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Prince Uche Secondus has blasted the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, for trying to politicize the senseless and mindless rampant killings going on across the country under the watch of President Muhammadu Buhari and his administration. Speaking on friday when he and members […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Air Peace on Friday urged members of the public to ignore a recorded voice message warning them not to patronise the airline and some other air and land transport companies. The airline, in a statement signed by its General Manager, Corporate Communications, Mr Chris Iwarah described the message as fake. “We would […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has challenged the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to present its scorecard of achievements, especially in the area of infrastructural development, in the South-East and the South-South in its 16 years in office. Alhaji Mohammed who threw the challenge while inspecting ongoing construction […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the redeployment of three permanent secretaries to the Federal Ministries of Labour, Communication and Health. Mrs Winifred Oyo-Ita, Head of Civil Service of the Federation disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Abuja. Mrs Ibukun Odusote, was redeployed to the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed shock and sorrow over the Thursday’s fire incident in Lagos where many people are feared killed with several vehicles burnt. The President made his feelings known in a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja, on Thursday. ““I’m […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) No fewer than five people were killed and several others injured after a gunman opened fire inside the building that houses the Capital Gazette. Police confirmed there were five fatalities in the shooting and that the suspect was armed with a shotgun. According to police, first shots were reported at 2:40 p.m. after […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The leadership of the Ogbia Restoration Crusaders (ORC) has lauded the Bayelsa State Government for organizing the just concluded town hall meetings on Public Service Reforms. Director General of the ORC, Mr. Okaniba Damson, described the town hall meeting as a veritable platform to interface with the people on the ongoing reforms. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Everton striker Wayne Rooney has signed a three-and-a-half-year deal with Major League Soccer club DC United. Everton and DC United made this announcement simultaneously Thursday afternoon. The former Manchester United striker will officially complete his move when the US mid-season transfer window opens July 10. There is no transfer fee, but it […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Speaker of Osun House of Assembly, Hon. Najeem Salaam has declared his intention to contest for September 22, 2018 Governorship election of the state. Salaam made the declaration Thursday at the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) secretariat in Osogbo the State capital. The State’s first Lawmaker declared that he was capable […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Many people were killed, while scores of vehicles burnt Thursday evening, when a petrol tanker went on fire on Otedola Bridge, along Lagos-Ibadan expressway. The truck was outward Lagos when the sad incident occurred. Reports said the officials of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency LASEMA, Lagos Fire Service as well as […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos Thursday fixed October 2, 2018 for ruling on the objection to the hearing of a motion seeking to quash the N450 million money laundering charge against Mr. Dele Belgore SAN. Belgore was arraigned along with a former Ministers of National Planning, Prof. Abubakar Suleiman; Petroleum […]
From.Ignatius Okpara ENUGU NIGERIA, (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu State Police Command has apprehended one Collins Ugwu, a Deputy Superintendent DSP in the Nigerian Prisons Service Headquarters, Abuja and 8 others over alleged armed robbery, conspiracy, malicious damage stealing, among other crimes. Danmallam Mohammed, the state Commissioner of Police disclosed this Thursday while parading Ugwu […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As high profile Nigerians continue to pour into Jos over massive killings in Plateau communities, Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that the right machinery should be put in place for solution. According to the former president, human problems need human solutions and Nigeria must find solution to massive killings across the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Screening Committee for Osun State governorship election on Wednesday cleared all the 11 aspirants contesting to be the party’s flag bearer in the Sept. 22 governorship election in Osun. The Chairman of the Screening Committee, Austin Opara, at the presentation of Screening Certificates to the aspirants at […]
