Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Monday, September 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Security forces have launched a manhunt for the yet to be identified gunmen who attacked the Kabba Medium Security Custodial Centre in Kogi at midnight on Sunday. Mr Sola Fasure, the Media Adviser to the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Abuja. Fasure said that […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Monday, September 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo has urged residents of the state to ignore the sit-at-home rumour. Uzodinma made the call while addressing the congregation after Church Service on Sunday at the Government House Chapel, Owerri. He called on residents to go about their normal businesses, adding that those behind the order and […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Monday, September 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Two soldiers at a checkpoint before Kabba Correctional Centre in Kogi State have been reportedly killed and another seriously injured when gunmen attacked the facility in the early hours of Monday. Over 100 prisoners were said to have been freed during the attack on the facility. The soldiers were said to have […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Monday, September 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The 75 students kidnapped from Government Day Secondary School, Kaya, in Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara State, have regained freedom, 12 days after their abduction. African Examiner reported how an unspecified number of students were abducted in the home town of the governor of the state, Bello Matawalle. Following their release […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Monday, September 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Jennifer Madueke, the 29-year-old woman arrested over the missing pistol of a Lagos Divisional Police Officer, CSP Adegoke Atilade, has been released. The police also removed Atilade as the DPO of the Denton Police Station, Ebute Meta. PUNCH Metro had exclusively reported that the police officer and Madueke were in a romantic […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Monday, September 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A popular music promoter, Ola Ibironke, popularly known as Dudu Heritage is dead. The socialite, a prominent golfer in Ibadan, and husband to top actress, Bimbo Oshin reportedly died some few hours ago. ‘Dudu’ lived in the United States some years ago where he was a music promoter before relocating to Nigeria […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, Sports News
Monday, September 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Encomiums from some notable sports groups in Oyo State have continued to trail Shooting Stars Sports Club (3SC) on its promotion to the Nigeria Professional Football League(NPFL). The groups showered the encomiums on the Oluyole Warriors in separate statements made available to newsmen in Ibadan. African Examiner reports that 3SC, on Saturday […]
Posted by African Examiner
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, North Africa
Monday, September 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Two Moroccan truck drivers were killed and another injured by armed men in Didieni commune, 300 km from Malian capital Bamako, Moroccan official news agency MAP reported on Sunday. The truck drivers were heading towards Bamako carrying goods before they were attacked on Saturday afternoon by a group of armed men hiding […]
Posted by African Examiner
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Monday, September 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Sen. Chimaroke Nnamani, (PDP-Enugu), Chairman, Senate Committee on Cooperation and Integration in Africa, has called for an end to the ‘sit-at-home’ order, by the proscribed IPOB in the South East. Nnamani, who made the call in a statement he issued to newsmen, on Sunday, in Abuja, noted that the order had brought […]
Posted by African Examiner
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, Nigeria 2015 Election
Monday, September 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidency says President Muhammadu Buhari’s comment on Gov. Hope Uzodinma of Imo at the meeting with South East Leaders has been quoted out of context. Buhari wss quoted as saying that “I’ll be careful with your future invitations” at end of his speech at the occasion. Mr Femi Adesina, the President’s […]
Posted by African Examiner
African News, Business News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News
Monday, September 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Fidelity Bank Plc has posted a profit before tax (PBT) of N20.6 billion for the six months ended June 30, 2021. The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity Bank, Mrs Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe, disclosed this in the bank’s audited half-year (H1) results released to the Nigerian Exchange (NGX) Limited on Sunday in Lagos. […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Sunday, September 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bandits trying to escape the ongoing military operation in Zamfara and Katsina states met their waterloo in the hands of soldiers at Maganda village near Allawa in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State. The bandits, who were said to be escaping through the notorious Allawa Forest in their hundreds, ran into […]
Posted by African Examiner
Entertainment, Featured, Latest Headlines
Sunday, September 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Reality TV star, Paul Ephraim, popularly known as Jaypaul, and Jackie B have been evicted from the ongoing Big Brother Naija Season Six. The duo had been nominated for eviction alongside Pere, Saga, Emmanuel, Liquorose, Whitemoney, Sasky. Others who have been evicted from the BBNaija Season Six show include Arin, Beatrice, Boma, […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Sunday, September 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu state Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has announced the expulsion of a former Military Governor of Gombe state, Chief Joe Orji, ex- Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Chief Eugene Odoh, and 39 other members, over their alleged violation of the provision of the party’s constitution. Also […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Sunday, September 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Enugu state Commissioner of police (CP) Abubakar Lawal has ordered immediate investigation and sanction of a Policeman recently involved in physical assault of a lady in Enugu. He however, warned the Command’s personnel against acts of unprofessionalism under his watch, stressing that his administration will not condone any conduct capable of dragging […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Sunday, September 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Imo state Police Command have arrested and killed two suspected members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, during a gun due in Orlu. They were apprehended in an uncompleted building situated in a valley at Amaifeke, Orlu. Commissioner of Police in the state, Rabiu Hussaini, made this known in […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Sunday, September 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde has praised the Shooting Stars Sports Club (3SC) for securing the long-awaited promotion to the elite Nigerian Premier Football League. Makinde says the promotion was in line with his campaign promise to get the club promoted to the elite. Taiwo Adisa, Makinde’s Chief Press Secretary, in a […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Sunday, September 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Special Task Force, Operation Safe Haven (OPSH), maintaining peace in Plateau State and its environs, has constituted a Board of Enquiry to investigate the alleged murder of one Abdullahi Karafa, a taxi driver in Jos, the state capital, by its personnel. Maj. Ishaku Takwa, its Media Officer, disclosed this in a […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
Featured, Latest Headlines, Sports News
Sunday, September 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Simon Ekpa, an athlete who represented Nigeria at the 2003 African Junior Athletics Championships, says he is no longer a Nigerian and he has vowed to return the medal he won for the country. Ekpa disclosed this in a Facebook post on Sunday, saying that leaders have failed the country. According to […]
Posted by African Examiner
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Sunday, September 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria on Saturday recorded two additional fatalities from the COVID-19 with 547 fresh cases reported across 15 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). This was disclosed in an update shared on the Facebook page of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Sunday morning. The additional 547 COVID-19 infections on Sunday […]
