(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Delta State Police Command has confirmed the killing of five persons as gunmen attacked Morfor motor park in Udu Local Government Area, Delta State, and engaged police operatives in a gun duel. Police Public Relations Officer of the state command, Mr. Bright Edafe, who confirmed the attacks in a statement, said two […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Yoruba Nation campaigner, Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, says he is not at war with the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.); the six governors in the South-West zone or any government official. He, however, stressed that it was saddening that the Buhari regime has not addressed the security challenges […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, has announced that he has tested positive for COVID-19. Bello disclosed this in a post on Facebook on Friday. According to the Minister, “I have tested positive for COVID-19. “After a hide and seek period spanning 21 months (1yr 9 months) […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Enugu State Governor, Chief Ifeanyi Lawrence Ugwuanyi has approved 2022 appropriation bill of N186,635,135,582.00 (One Hundred and Eighty Six Billion, Six Hundred and Thirty Five Million, One Hundred and Thirty Five Thousand, Five Hundred and Eighty Two Naira) passed by the State House of Assembly on Wednesday, December 29, 2021. Presenting the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Heavily armed men have reportedly killed a policeman on duty at Uli community in Ihiala Council Area of Anambra State, South- East Nigeria. They equally kidnapped another and injured several others during an attack yesterday at Eziama Health Centre in the community. The hoodlums struck during a medical outreach programme organised by […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Better Education Service Delivery for All (BESDA), a World Bank programme implemented in collaboration with both the Federal Government and Bauchi State Government has enrolled a 153 out-of-school children in Bauchi. The project has ensured that the children are back to the classroom to continue their studies within their respective communities across […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The police in Zamfara State have rescued 10 kidnap victims abducted by bandits in the early hours of Wednesday. It also said it has arrested a notorious bandit along the axis. Bandits had stormed Gada community in Bungudu Local Government Area around 1 a.m. Wednesday, and killed the district head, Ummaru Bawan-Allah. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Matthew Kukah, has reiterated that he remains unapologetic to those who perceived him to be an ardent critic of the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). Kukah said this while speaking with journalists in Sokoto. He said, “All what I have been clamouring for […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government says it successfully constructed about 159 Rural Water Supply Schemes in the North East geopolitical zone of Nigeria this year. Nigeria’s Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed disclosed this in Abuja during a press conference on the achievements of President Mohammadu Buhari’s administration in the 2021 fiscal year, The minister […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – K Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has stated that the Southeast deserves to produce Nigeria’s president in 2023. Ikpeazu stated this while addressing State House Correspondents after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari saying that the Southeast knows and understands Nigeria better than any other region. He, however, stated that the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ebonyi State Chapter of the Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN) has formally collapsed its entire structure from the Ward to the State level into the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). Former National Vice Chairman South East of the party, Dr. Lazarus Eze, alongside the state leadership made the announcement yesterday during s […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The newly appointed Minister of State for Works and Housing, Mu’azu Sambo, on Wednesday, said the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has chosen the right direction for infrastructure development in the country. He noted this when he assumed office on Wednesday and was received by the Permanent Secretary, Babangida Hussaini, and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has tasked President Muhammadu Buhari to return Nigeria to the situation it was during the time of former President, Goodluck Jonathan. Alhaji Ismail Musa, CNG’s Director of Strategic Communications, disclosed this when he featured on Vanguard Live on Wednesday as he lamented over the spate of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Super Eagles Striker, Victor Osimhen, has tested positive for coronavirus just 10 days to the Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon. His club, Napoli, announced this on Thursday. The club said, “Napoli has announced that Victor Osimhen has tested positive for Covid-19 but is asymptomatic. Dr. Tartaro was due to perform a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty in New York on Wednesday of recruiting and grooming young girls to be sexually abused by the late American financier Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell faces spending the rest of her life behind bars after the 12-person jury convicted her on five of the six counts she […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, has alleged that the incumbent governor, Hope Uzodinma, is sponsoring unknown gunmen carrying out the killings in the state. He also alleged that the controversial arrest of his son-in-law, Uche Nwosu, by the police during a church service on Sunday, was actually an assassination attempt […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A traditional Chief in Ijan Ekiti , Gbonyin Local Government area of Ekiti State, Chief Emmanuel Obafemi and two other kidnapped cocoa merchants have regained their freedom after the payment of N4 million ransom. They were said to have been released along Ikere road around 3am on Wednesday and had since reunited […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria’s Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo urged multilateral agencies, and Western countries to stop the planned defunding of fossil fuels/gas projects in developing countries as part of the energy transition plan towards the global net-zero target by 2050. Prof Osinbajo who has been advocating for a just transition to global net-zero emissions, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ahead of the plan to set up vaccine manufacturing plant in Rwanda, the German Government is currently training of specialists for the take- off of the project aimed at using BioTech’s messenger RNA technology. Currently, only 1 percent of the COVID-19 vaccines administered in Africa are produced in the continent but the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Football Federation has appointed Portuguese coach, Jose Peseiro, as Super Eagles Head Coach. NFF announced this in a communique on Wednesday after its National Executive Council meeting. “After careful consideration of a memo presented by Chairman of the Technical and Development Sub-Committee, the Executive Committee endorsed a proposal for the […]
