(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Founder of Stanbic IBTC Bank, Atedo Peterside, has enjoined President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the Electoral Bill which has been with him for weeks. This development is coming after a coalition of civil society organisations took to Unity Fountain in Abuja on Tuesday protested the president’s delay in signing the bill to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The upper area court in Zuba, Abuja, has revoked the bail earlier granted to the popular aphrodisiac seller, Hauwa Saidu Mohammed better known as Jaruma. The presiding judge, Ismail Jibrin, directed the Nigerian Police to re-arrest Jaruma and remand her in Suleja Correctional Centre, Niger State. The judge, who expressed disappointment that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Deputy Governor of Zamfara State, Mahdi Gusau, has been removed from office by lawmakers in the State House of Assembly on Wednesday. This followed the report of the committee set up by the Chief Judge of the State, Justice Kulu Aliyu, to probe the deputy governor. Those in the committee include […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A policeman, Sergeant Adeleke Ogunsola, has died after being hit by an unnamed driver of a former Ogun State Governor, Gbenga Daniel. African Examiner gathered that the incident happened on Saturday at Daniel’s Asoludero residence at Sagamu, Ogun State. Our correspondent learnt that Ogunsola was one of the policemen posted to the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Ministry of Finance Headquarters located in the Central Area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, is currently on fire. The details of the inferno as of the time of filing this report are sketchy. However, our correspondent learnt that firefighters had arrived at the scene to extinguish the fire. The […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – U.S. President Joe Biden, on Tuesday announced first tranche of sanctions on Russia, following its decision to recognise the independence of certain areas of Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Biden, in a speech from the White House, said the Russian leader had committed “a flagrant violation of international law.” According to him, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS) says it is not recruiting and cautioned potential job seeker against falling into the hands of scammers. The NCoS Public Relations Officer Francis Enobore made this known in a statement he issued on Tuesday in Abuja. He said that the clarification became necessary following desperate efforts by […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Management of Enugu Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture ECCIMA, has said Exhibitors and participants at the forthcoming 33rd Enugu International Trade Fair, will be insured to see that they do not suffer loses during the exercise scheduled to take place between March 25 and April 4, 2022. President of ECCIMA, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The minister said this on Tuesday in Abuja at the 21st edition of Town Hall Meeting focusing on the achievements of the Federal Government in Infrastructure Development. African Examiner reports that the town hall meeting was organized by the Ministry of Information and Culture and the National Orientation Agency (NOA). In a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Disturbed by the astronomical increase in airfares by Airline operators in the country, the Senate called on the Federal Government to, as a matter of urgency, declare a State of Emergency on the nation’s federal roads. The Senate has also urged the federal government to immediately make good its indebtedness to FERMA […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Femi Adesina, the Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity has stated that President Buhari may sign the revised electoral bill today or tomorrow. Adesina disclosed this in an interview on Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television programme on Tuesday, February 22, 2022. He said, “It could be today, it […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The House of Representatives has urged the Federal Government to honour its agreement with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), to end the union’s ongoing one-month warning strike. The legislators made the call in a resolution which followed the adoption of a motion by Rep. Dozie Nwankwo, (APGA-Anambra) on the floor […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari is presently meeting with the governors of the ruling All Progressives Congress at Aso Rock in Abuja. The meeting was previously fixed for last Tuesday but it was postponed before Buhari’s trip to Brussels and Belgium, to attend the EU-AU Summit. The Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The former governor of Lagos State, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said media reports quoting him as saying he was “ready to get dirty” to achieve his presidential ambition were taken out of context. Mr Tinubu’s media aide, Tunde Rahman, in a statement on Monday, said his principal, while referring to some of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate will lay the report of the Committee on the review of the 1999 Constitution Wednesday and begin to vote on the recommendations on Tuesday next week. Disclosing this Tuesday, Deputy President of the Senate and Chairman, Senate Committee on the Alteration to the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, has postponed the meeting with the Academic Staff Union of Universities earlier slated for 1 p.m today, Tuesday, February 22, 2022, to 2pm. This was disclosed by the spokesperson of the ministry of labour and employment, Charles Akpan in Abuja. Though Akpan did […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court sitting in Jos on Tuesday sentenced a former Minister of Water Resources, Sarah Ochekpe, to three months imprisonment. Ochekpe, who served as Minister under former President Goodluck Jonathan, was sentenced alongside a former chairman of the People Democratic Party in Plateau state, Raymond Dabo, and the Plateau State […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Britain will immediately impose hard economic sanctions on Russia after President Vladimir Putin ordered the deployment of troops to two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said this on Tuesday. “We will immediately institute a package of economic sanctions,’’ Johnson told reporters. “This is, I should stress, just the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At least eight people are dead and five police officers injured after a wild shoot-out with automatic weapons in Johannesburg. Police Minister Bheki Cele said on national television that a police helicopter was also fired on by the gang of about 25, resulting in the co-pilot being shot. The shooting was preceded […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Monday, called on the old generation of Nigerians to give way for the younger generation to build a prosperous nation. According to him, rather than compete, the old generation should collaborate with younger people and provide them with the requisite knowledge and experience to transform the country. […]
