……Urges States Yet To Pass Open Grazing Law to Do So. (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A meeting of the Southern governors forum held in Enugu, South East Nigeria on Thursday has ended with the governors reiterating their earlier position that the next president of Nigeria in 2023 must come from the area, even as they resolved […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Mai Mala-Buni of Yobe has directed government hospitals in Geidam and Damaturu to offer free medical services to those who sustained injuries during the Buhari village fighter airstrike in Yunusari Local Government Area of the state. African Examiner reports that Yunusari, which shares an international border with Niger Republic has an […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Presidential aide, Reno Omokri has reacted to reports that his former boss, Goodluck Jonathan, is set to defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. African Examiner writes that there have been speculations that APC was wooing Jonathan to become its presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections. Also, the party […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The governors of states in Southern Nigeria are currently in a closed-door meeting at the Government House, Enugu. Southern Nigeria is made up of 17 states in three geopolitical zones of the country; namely, South-East, South-South and South-West. As at the time of filing this report, nine governors and seven deputy governors […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, slumped at a programme at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Thursday The incident happened when Bawa was giving a goodwill message at the National Identity Day celebration. The EFCC boss suddenly stopped talking, staggered and later laid down. The Minister of Communications […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has sued Kenya over his extradition to Nigeria. The pro-Biafra activist’s brother, Kingsley Kanunta, sued on his behalf, according to court papers obtained by our correspondent In his petition presented by Luchiri and Company Advocates, Kanu argued that his arrest in Kenya […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Prof (Mrs) Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello has been named the ninth substantive Vice Chancellor of the Lagos State University(LASU). The Professor of Physiology had served as Acting Vice Chancellor of the institution before her elevation. Her appointment was announced on Thursday morning. Olatunji-Bello was born in Lagos on the 23rd of April 1964 to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – House of Representatives Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila has denied comparing the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Yoruba Nation agitators to Boko Haram and Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP). African Examiner reports the Speaker had said that yoruba and ipob agitators are not different from boko haram. He had said: “We must […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is representing Nigeria at the 2nd Extraordinary Summit of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Governments on the political situation in the Republic of Guinea. Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President disclosed this in a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has begun investigation into fighter jet air strike in ”Buhari village” in Yunusari Local Government Area of the state. African Examiner reports that Yunusari, which shares an international border with Niger Republic has an area of 3,790 km2 and a population of 125,821 according to the 2006 […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Nigerian Air Force fighter jet has killed nine people in Buhari community, Yunusari Local Government Area of Yobe State. Several other villagers sustained injuries and are now receiving medical attention at a government health facility in Geidam. According to a resident of Damaturu, Saleh Ibrahim, the jet shelled the village in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Manchester City crushed RB Leipzig 6-3 in a thrilling UEFA Champions League Group A game on Wednesday as Christopher Nkunku scored a hat-trick for the German side. It was a hugely entertaining match at the Etihad Stadium and Manchester City’s manager, Pep Guardiola, will be happy with the three points for the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Kaduna State has arrested two suspects over killingi of Abdulkarim Na-Allah, the eldest son of Sen. Bala Ibn Na’Allah, in Kaduna. Na’Allah is the Senator representing Kebbi South senatorial district. The command Public Relations Officer, ASP Mohammed Jalige, confirmed the development to the News Agancy of Nigeria (NAN) […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A top UN official, Nicholas Haysom, said South Sudan had made history with the appointment of two women to senior leadership positions within its Transitional National Legislature. Haysom, UN Special Representative and head of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), said this while briefing Security Council virtually at UN headquarters, New […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government is collaborating with Ogun Government to secure the Right of Way (RoW) for the construction of three bridges and an interchange on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, said this during an inspection of the highway . Fashola, who was joined by Gov. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Nigerian envoy, Mrs Ibironke Adeagbo, has expressed fears on the safety of Nigeria’s 5.2 million students in 13,029 institutions nationwide as schools in the country resume for a new academic year. Records show that 1.4 million of the students are in Nigerian northwest, the hotbed of persistent abductions that have resulted […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Rivers Governor, Mr Peter Odili has been placed on the watch list of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC ) says the Nigeria Immigration Service, (NIS) The NIS revealed this in response to a suit filed by Odili challenging the seizure of his international passport by the service. When the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. David Umahi of Ebonyi says he has no apologies for describing President Muhammadu Buhari as a man with a good heart and father to him. Umahi said this while receiving the former Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Ali Modu Sheriff, at the Government House, Abakiliki. Shariff was in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has said there was no difference between the “separationist activists” in the South-West and South-East geopolitical zones in the country, and deadly Boko Haram terrorists. Gbajabiamila stated this in his speech on resumption of the House of Representatives from the 2021 annual legislative recess […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Faruk Yahaya, says the Nigerian Army will “talk to the terrorists, bandits, kidnappers and other perpetrators of violence in the language they understand.’’ Yahaya stated this at the closing of the Combined Second and Third Quarters Chief of Army Staff Conference on Wednesday in Abuja. […]
