(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Libyan court has sentenced 45 people to death by firing squad for killing protesters during the 2011 uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, according to the ministry of justice. They were convicted of opening fire on anti-Gaddafi protesters in the capital Tripoli, in August 2011. Another 54 defendants were sentenced to five years […]
Photo: President Yoweri Museveni (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ugandan legislator, Francis Zaake, detained after the president’s convoy was stoned, has been “brutalised” by security personnel, an opposition figure said on Wednesday as images of the bruised lawmaker emerged on social media. Supporters of an independent candidate running in a parliamentary by-election threw stones at President Yoweri Museveni’s […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Hamza Al-Mustapha, former Chief Security Officer to late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, says he will join the presidential race if prevailed upon by Nigerians to do so. Al-Mustapha gave the indication Wednesday in Kaduna in an interview shortly after a meeting with United Christian Leaders Eagle Eye Forum which backed […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Benue Governor, Samuel Ortom, says the the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has subjected state government officials to intense grilling, saying that the persecution was becoming “ridiculous”. Ortom’s Chief Press Secretary, Mr Terver Akase, who raised the alarm on Wednesday in Makurdi, said “no day passes without the commission adding one […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Super Eagles striker Victor Moses has quit international Football. Moses who made the announcement through his Instagram handle victormoses: explained that the decision was taken ”in order to be able to focus fully on club career and my young family as well as to allow the next generation of Super Eagles stars […]
Photo: Barrister Ogochukwu Onyema From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A senatorial Aspirant for the Enugu West district under the platform of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP in the 2019 general election, Barrister Ogochukwu Onyema, has said that if elected, he would propagate a bill that would challenge the present 4 – year tenure and […]
KADUNA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Following the resignation of the former State’s second Lawmaker, the Kaduna State House of Assembly has elected Nuhu Shadalafiya as the new Deputy Speaker. Shadalafiya until his nomination was the House committee chairman on information.He is representing Kagarko constituency. The former Deputy Speaker John Adu resigned from the position last […]
By Ignatius Okpara ….attributes success of Restoration Government to leadership of Gov. Dickson (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Bayelsa State Government on Wednesday said it will work with security agencies to ensure that the state remains safe and peaceful throughout the electioneering period. It therefore appealed to all aspirants not to hit up the polity with […]
By Ignatius Okpara, Enugu ENUGU, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu State Board of Internal Revenue after obtaining Court Orders, Tuesday carried out a distrainment exercise on four banks and two other private firms, as it sealed off their offices over non-payment of taxes to the State. The Board claimed that the unpaid tax amounts […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government FG has announced the appointment of the Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun as the Chairman, Board of Directors of Nigeria Bulk Electricity Trading Company (NBET). Finance Ministry Director of Information, Mr Hassan Dodo in a statement issued on Wednesday in Abuja, said that the appointment was […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidency has described reports going round that President Muhammadu Buhari has extended his 10-day vacation in London as fake. The denial emanated from its official twitter handle @NGRPresident, late Tuesday. While dismissing the reports, the Presidency said the speculation was an old story which was first circulated during the President’s vacation […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The founder of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, has predicted victory for the President of Senate, Bukola Saraki in the 2019 Presidential election. The cleric who hinged his position on Saraki’s victory at the opposition People’s Democratic PDP Presidential primary however warned that the 2019 election will be tougher than […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – After the flamboyance and glitter that went with the news of his defection to the All Progressives Congress, APC, the reality is coming to dawn among friends and foes of the former Senate Minority leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio. As no one feels the shoe like the one who wears it, Akpabio is […]
Director-General, Industrial Training Fund (ITF), Mr Joseph Ari (AFRICAN EXAMINER) Mr Joseph Ari, the Director-General, Industrial Training Fund (ITF), says the fund will train 13,000 Nigerians on 11 vocational skills in order to achieve the Federal Government’s policy on job and wealth creation. Ari made this known in Abuja on Tuesday during a news conference. According […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Africa’s leading entrepreneurship-focused philanthropic organisation, the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), has announced October 25, 2018, as the date for its 4th annual TEF Entrepreneurship Forum. The largest gathering of African entrepreneurs and the broader entrepreneurship ecosystem will unite over 5,000 entrepreneurs, global investors, leaders from the African public and private sectors and developmental […]
BENIN, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Vice President VP and Presidential aspirant of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar says he is not desperate to be President of the country. Atiku made the disclosure Tuesday while fielding questions from newsmen in Benin, the Edo State capital, South South Nigeria. The former VP however […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Following the directive Tuesday by the Acting President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, the Inspector General of Police IGP, Mr.brahim idris, has ordered immediate overhauling of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad SARS so as to address complaints and allegations of human rights violations against some of the agency’s personnel. The directive was […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – PREMIUM TIMES hereby calls for the immediate release of its reporter, Samuel Ogundipe, who was detained on Tuesday by the Nigeria Police over a report. On the day the Nigerian presidency was complaining about the excesses of a unit in the police, the same unit was forcing a PREMIUM TIMES journalist to […]
…Denies FG’s Involvement (AFRICAN EXAMINER) -The Federal Government FG has denied having hand in the call for resignation or impeachment of the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki. The Minister of Information and Culture AlhajI Lai Mohammed made the denial Tuesday when he paid advocacy visit to the Abuja office of Blueprints Newspaper. In contrary, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu state football Association (ENSFA) has urged the private sector to key into the development and promotion of grassroot football in the area, via sponsorship. It noted that lack of corporate sponsorship had remained a cog in the wheel of progress of grassroot soccer over the years in the state, adding […]
