(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At least 10,000 South African soldiers are expected in the coastal region of KwaZulu-Natal on Wednesday, to help clean up after a major storm that has claimed at least 448 lives. Dozens remain missing as President Cyril Ramaphosa declared a national emergency in the storm’s wake. According to officials, about 40,000 people […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kenya’s Ministry of Health on Wednesday said that it had intensified a campaign toward the elimination of the malaria epidemic by the year 2030. Mutahi Kagwe, cabinet secretary in the Ministry of Health, said that in the last decade, the east African nation had reduced the burden of malaria by 50 per […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Leader of Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has said that presidential aspirants from the South-West geopolitical zone including Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu, should forget their presidential ambitions. He said it was the turn of the South-East to produce Nigeria’s next President after the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday in Abuja urged Nigerians to resist agents of destabilisation. He said the agents were bent on causing a breakdown of law and order in the country, assuring that no individual or group would be allowed to destabilise Nigeria. The president’s spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, stated that Buhari […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Canada announced on Tuesday that it would place sanctions on 14 associates of the Russian government, including President Vladimir Putin’s two daughters. Mélanie Joly, Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that they would answer for their crimes. “We will continue to impose severe costs on the Russian regime in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Mr Usman Baba, has ordered all Commissioners of Police (CPs), Tactical Commanders and their supervising Assistant Inspectors-General of Police (AIGs) to boost security around schools and colleges. The Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, made this known in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. He […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former governor of Anambra state and 2023 People’s Democratic party PDP presidential Aspirant Mr Peter Obi, yesterday lamented the dwindling economic fortunes of Nigeria and blamed it on poor civilian leadership that has being installed in the country from 1999 till date. He however, ,assured that he will rescue Nigeria from […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, also a presidential aspirant on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to disband the two anti-graft agencies in the country, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC and the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, ICPC. He stated this, yesterday, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Osinbajo for President Media Council says it has uncovered a fraudulent plan to malign the reputation of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. African Examiner reports that Osinbajo is a presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The council, in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, said the plot […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Police Command has invited all parties involved in the alleged sexual abuse of a 10-year-old primary six pupil of Chrisland Schools located in the Victoria Garden City area of the state. The Lagos Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, stated on Tuesday that all parties involved in the matter […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The South-South Branch of the Network of Clergymen in Nigeria (NCN) has thrown its weight behind the aspiration of a former Governor of Lagos State, Mr Bola Tinubu. The clerics said that Nigeria needed a politician in the calibre of Tinubu to become the next president of the country. The clergymen stated […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A trader, Mr Musbau Yekeen, has told a Grade A Customary Court at Mapo in Ibadan to put an end to the 12 year-old union between him and his estranged wife, Tawakalitu on ground of infidelity. Yekeen, a resident of Apete area in Ibadan, Oyo State, said he willfully agreed to the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Afghan security officials said on Tuesday that at least three explosions targeted a school in the west of Kabul. The Afghan Interior Ministry Spokesperson, Abdul Nafay Takoor, told dpa that the blasts targeted AbdulRaheem Shaheed School, located in the city’s police district 18. He said an investigation was underway; details would be […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday declared a national state of disaster over the deadly floods on the east coast, warning that rebuilding even basic services would take time. “This is a humanitarian disaster that calls for a massive and urgent relief effort. “The lives, health and wellbeing of thousands of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – World Bank Group President, David Malpass has expressed concern over higher poverty rates in developing countries due to war in Ukraine and COVID-19 related shutdown. A statement issued on Monday by the Bank quoted Malpass as making this known in his opening remark at the World Bank Spring Meetings 2022 media roundtable. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity Shehu Garba has slammed the catholic Bishop of the diocese of Sokoto, Mattew Kukah to drop his religious garb and join partisan politics. He said this in retaliation to the homily presented by the Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Sokoto, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria and Mauritius have retained their seats to serve for another four years in the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) from 2023 to 2026. The UN correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the candidates from the two countries are re-elected to occupy the two […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Lagos State said on Monday that it had begun investigation into the alleged viral rape video purportedly depicting students of Chrisland School, Lagos. Spokesman for the command, SP Benjamin Hundey, said in a statement that the Commissioner of Police in the state, CP Abiodun Alabi, ordered the investigation. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Legal icon and elder statesman, Chief Afe Babalola, says an interim government should replace the current administration at the expiration of President Muhammadu Buhari tenure in 2023. Babalola told a news conference in Ado-Ekiti on Monday that the interim government should be in office for six months to chart a new course […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Troops of the 34 Artillery Brigade, Nigerian Army, have neutralised a notorious gunman of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its armed affiliate, Eastern Security Network (ESN), in Imo. Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, stated in Abuja on Monday that the gunman was killed in an encounter at […]
