(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria’s Senate has finally passed the 2019 Appropriation Bill. The budget was however increased from N8.83trn as originally presented by President Muhammadu Buhari last year to N8.916 trillion. The passage Premium Times reported, follows the presentation of a report by the Chairman Senate committee on Appropriation, Danjuma Goje. Senator Goje explained that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has reportedly secured the release of detained young Nigerian female undergraduate in Saudi Arabia, Zainab Aliyu. Miss Aliyu has been held by the Saudi authority over alleged drug trafficking. Personal Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on the New Media, Bashir Ahmad, disclosed this on his verified Twitter handle. Tweeting via […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria’s opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of replacing all the servers in its headquarters and state offices to conceal the alleged rigging in the last Presidential election. In a statement issued in Abuja late Monday by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – China has sentenced a Canadian citizen to death for his involvement in drug trafficking. Canada’s Fan Wei received the death penalty, similar to Wu Ziping, whose nationality was not given, a court in the southern Chinese city of Jiangmen in Guangdong province said on Tuesday. The two men allegedly headed a group […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kidnappers on Monday afternoon blocked the Kaduna-Abuja Express way forcing several motorists to abandon their vehicles and head for nearby bushes to avoid being abducted. The development has left many motorists and passengers unaccounted for just as their belongings were carted away by the kidnappers. A Correspondent of the News Agency of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has declared Wednesday – May 1, as public holiday to celebrate the 2019 Workers’ Day. The Minister of Interior, Lt. Gen. (Rtd) Abdulrahman Dambazau, made the declaration on behalf of the FG. Dambazau in a statement issued Monday in Abuja by Permanent Secretary of the Ministry Mrs Georgina Ehuriah, congratulated Nigerian workers […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ogun Government has constituted a 26- member transition committee ahead of the inauguration of a new government in the state on May 29. The committee, comprising 15 members from the team of the Governor-elect, Prince Dapo Abiodun and 11 members from the incumbent government, was inaugurated at the Governor’s Office, Monday in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Mr. Abubakar Malami, to immediately intervene in the case of Nigerian student, Zainab Aliyu detained in Saudi Arabia in relation to hard drugs. The Senior Special Assistant to Mr President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora matters, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, confirmed the directive […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The traditional ruler of Ilogbo Ekiti, Oba Edward Ajayi, who abandoned the throne six months ago for safety, having been chased away by angry subjects over certain offences, has returned. The Oba’s return was facilitated by the state government which intervened in his plight to enable him to reclaim the throne. Special […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ebonyi Police Command has rescued the two kidnapped Chinese nationals who were abducted by unknown gunmen at a road construction site in Ohaozara Local Government Area of the state on Wednesday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the victims, Messrs Sun Zhi Xim and Wang Qinghu, were employees of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has confirmed that the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results would be ready from Monday, April 29. JAMB Head, Media and Publicity, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in an interview with the NAN Saturday in Bwari. Dr. Benjamin also confirmed that screening of the results […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ohha Microfinance Bank Enugu, has again petitioned the Economic and financial Crimes commission EFCC, over the delay in prosecuting Mr. Oliver Anidiobi, a top management staff of Sterling Bank PLC for allegedly converting its deposits in the sum of N219,034,901.50 (Two Hundred and Nineteen Million, Thirty Four Thousand, Nine […]
Photo: Late Treasure Akinsohun (AFRICAN EXAMINER) The police in Lagos have arrested a woman in whose deep freezer the dead body of a six-year-old boy was allegedly found at Alapere in Ketu, near Lagos. The spokesman of the Lagos State Police Command, DSP. Bala Elkana, confirmed the arrest on Friday while speaking with crime correspondents. He […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Barely 24 hours after his travelling, President Muhammadu Buhari has come under attack from the first opposition, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), describing the President’s 10-day private visit to the United Kingdom (UK) as an unknown voyage. The PDP National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, made the outburst Friday at a media briefing in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Kaduna State Government has reportedly imposed a dusk to dawn curfew on Kajuru Local Government Area. Governor Nasir El-Rufai Spokesman Samuel Aruwan disclosed this Friday in a Facebook post. The State Government’s action according to Aruwan followed renewed attacks in Kasuwan Magani parts of the LGA. “Following events in Kasuwan Magani, the dusk to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Mohammadu Buhari, on behalf of Nigeria, has donated generously, including the sum of $500m and other valuable electoral items to facilitate successful conduct of Guinea-Bissau electons. The hint on this emanated Friday from series of tweets on the verified Twitter handle of Presidency @NGRPresident. The tweets confirmed donated articles to include: 350 units of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has denounced a newspaper report that 70 per cent of medicines in Nigeria were fake. A press statement by Prof. Moji Adeyeye, Director General of the agency on Friday, said that the false report was published by Vanguard Newspaper. Adeyeye said […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu Nigeria (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A socio-political group, under the banner of Igbo in Nigeria Movement (INM), has come hard on embattled President General of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Chief John Nnia Nwodo, over a recent statement credited to him where he was accusing President Muhammadu Buhari of enthroning ethnicity into Nigeria’s polity. According to […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Abakaliki (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Heavily armed hoodlums Thursday abducted two Chinese national who were supervising government projects at Uburu community, in Ohaozara council Area of Ebonyi State, southEast Nigeria. Our Correspondent gathered that the kidnappers whisked away the expatriates whose names are yet to be identified as at the time of filling this reports to an […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – I believe we all have that one family member who thinks that he or she has the right to intrude into your schedule and order you around. When they call you, they won’t give up until you pick their calls. And these people, they can call you liked a hundred times. Send […]
