(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has placed Governor Willie Obiano, governor of Anambra State on its watchlist. This development is coming months before Obiano is expected to vacate office as governor. According to a letter dated November 15 and addressed to the comptroller-general of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has condemned the resurgence of Ponzi schemes and illegal fund managers in the country’s financial sector. The Director-General of SEC, Mr Lamido Yuguda, frowned at the development at an enlightenment workshop with the staff of the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning on Wednesday […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A dismissed police officer simply identified as Samuel was among the kidnap syndicate arrested by men of the Rapid Response Squad in Ekiti State. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Tunde Mobayo, said, “Samuel has confessed to being a member of the kidnapping gang and had participated in different abduction and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tanzania said on Wednesday it would allow pregnant students and teenaged mothers to continue with their studies, reversing a heavily-criticised policy instituted by its late autocratic leader John Magufuli. In 2017, the East African country began expelling pregnant girls from state schools and banned them from returning to class after giving birth, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA) has dismissed insinuations in some reports that its proposed 2022 budget was padded with N4.5 billion. The Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi, said this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. Babafemi said the agency had been inundated with calls and messages […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Ogun has arrested five suspected members of a kidnap gang terrorizing residents of Obada-Oko, Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of the state. The Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, made this known in a statement on Wednesday in Abeokuta. The suspects: Aliu Manya, Usman Abubakar, Abayomi Olayiwola, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – EFCC has declared that banking sector fraud is largely perpetrated by insider Information, Communication Technology (ICT) employees. Mr Abbah Sambo, Head, Cybercrime Section of the EFCC, made the disclosure at a national seminar on Banking and Allied Matters for judges. Sambo represented the EFCC chairman, Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa, at the seminar. He […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian traders has condemned ECOWAS’ silence over border closure by the Ghanaian government thereby violating the policy on free movement in the region. Mr Chukwuemeka Nnaji, President of the Nigerian Union of Traders Association in Ghana (NUTAG), made the call in a telephone interview on Wednesday. Nnaji, who spoke against the backdrop […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Akwa Ibom Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has apprehended 40-year-old Elisha Effiong for attempting to sell his two daughters for N700, 000. This is contained in a statement issued by the NSCDC Public Relations Officer, Mr Ukeme Umana, in Uyo on Wednesday. Umana said that the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) Group Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer (GMD/CEO) Mele Kyari, has stated that petrol will sell for between N320 and N340 per liter from February, next year. Kyayi, who said Nigeria would be out of the subsidy regime in the first quarter of 2022, explained that subsidy […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The panel inaugurated by the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, to probe the suspended Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, Hadiza Bala-Usman, has failed to quiz her over six months after she was suspended. Bala-Usman, a former Chief of Staff to Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State, had been suspended by […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Cardiologist, Dr Okechukwu Anthony, has said that growing rate of abnormal high blood pressure in children, undetected or not taken seriously, has grave consequences, including organ damage. Anthony stated this in Abuja that besides diabetes, being an adult disease on the rise in children and adolescents, high blood pressure had become […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The people of Magami in Gusau Local Government Area of Zamfara state has cried for help over the worsening state of insecurity in their communities. They said bandits are destroying their farm lands and imposing levies on them. ” If you fail to pay bandits the levy, they either abduct you or […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has inaugurated enhanced e-passport to improve passport application process for Nigerians at home and abroad. Mr Sola Fasure, the Media Adviser to the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, made known in a statement in Abuja. The minister made the disclosure at the official rollout of the enhanced e-passport at […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State, says Kano and Lagos States are demanding for 1 per cent in the new nation’s Revenue Allocation Formula. The demand is contained in a statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to the governor, Mr Abba Anwar, issued in Kano. Anwar said that Ganduje made […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Federal Capital Territory primary and secondary school teachers have insisted that nothing will avert an indefinite strike if their demands are not met by Thursday, Nov. 25. The FCT Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Mr Stephen Knabayi, made this known at the end of an emergency meeting in Abuja. […]
The Federal Government stated that it has no control over the rising price of cooking gas. This is even as President Muhammadu Buhari expressed concern over the development, especially as gas prices are determined by global market. He also directed the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, to proceed to Nembe, Bayelsa State, […]
..As Civil Society Groups Calls For Directors Probe (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Fresh crisis is currently brewing at the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital Enugu, (FNHE), over the refusal of the Director, Dr. Monday Nwite Igwe, to reinstate to their former positions three of its workers interdicted about two years ago, over alleged murder case, but were discharged […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The German government has promised to support the reformation of the Nigeria Police with a view to optimizing its performance in line with global best practices. This was disclosed during the visit of a high-level delegation from Germany, to office of the Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Musiliu Smith, a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in Lagos. Fani-Kayode was said to be under investigation for alleged forgery and manipulation of documents. Our correspondent learnt that the ex-minister, who rejoined the All Progressives Congress in September, was brought to the Lagos […]
