(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Dangote Group on Monday warned the public to ignore a fake cement promo trending on social media as “no decision has been taken on any Cement Promo for the year 2022 by Dangote Cement Plc”. A statement by Mr Anthony Chiejina, Group Chief Branding and Communications Officer, Dangote Industries Ltd (DIL), said […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Zamfara House of Assembly on Monday expressed confidence in the witnesses presented at the investigative panel hearing for the impeachment process against the state’s deputy governor, Mahadi Aliyu-Gusau. A counsel to the lawmakers/complainant and Director, Legal Matters of Zamfara of the Assembly, Nasiru Jangebe, stated this while speaking with newsmen after […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Oyo State, says it has arrested two suspected vandals of rail tracks at Omi-Adio area of Ibadan. The command made this known in a statement issued by its Police Public Relations Officer, SP Adewale Osifeso, on Monday in Ibadan. Osifeso said the arrested persons, who were caught in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UN Secretary General António Guterres has cancelled his trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) due to worsening situation in Ukraine, according to his spokesman, Mr Stéphane Dujarric. Dujarric in a note to UN correspondents on Monday stated that “In light of the deteriorating situation regarding Ukraine, the secretary-general is […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court in Lagos has granted Media Rights Agenda (MRA), a frontline civil society group, permission to sue the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami over failure to make regulations for the implementation of Anti-Torture Act. MRA had approached the court seeking an […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has shifted its convention. The African Examiner recalls that the party’s convention had earlier been fixed on Saturday, February 26, 2022. The APC disclosed this in a letter of the notification dated February 21, 2022, and issued to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The letter […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Students of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, (UNIZIK), Awka, Anambra State, South- East Nigeria, were Sunday evening thrown into shock, as two of their colleagues were found dead at a private hostel in the institution. Our Correspondent gathered that their corpses were almost decomposing as at the time they were found It was […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has stated that the People’ s Democratic Party, PDP, and All Progressives Congress, APC, have nothing different to offer Nigerians come 2023. Kwankwaso made this known when he featured on Nasara FM in Kano over the weekend saying that both the APC and PDP have nothing […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Pastor David Ibiyeomie of Salvation Ministry has stated that Christians who don’t pay tithes (10 percent of all their incomes) to church are criminals, saying that the offence is punishable. The pastor made this known in the church’s service in Port Harcourt on Sunday, saying that tithing is like making a payment […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A pregnant woman and eight others were burnt to death, yesterday, when a commercial passenger bus rammed into a vehicle laden with petrol in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. Eight others were said to have survived the crash with multiple burnt injuries. It was gathered that the accident occurred at Ilorin International […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Executive Council of the striking Academic Staff of Universities will hold a meeting Monday night. Sources in the union revealed that after the meeting, NEC members will meet Federal Government officials later in the week. ASUU had last week Monday declared a nationwide four-week roll-over strike after a two-day meeting […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A total of 11,104,160 COVID-19 cases were reported in Africa as of Saturday evening, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. The specialised healthcare agency of the African Union said the COVID-19 death toll across the continent stands at 246,584, while 10,254,788 patients have recovered from the disease […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited started its week with an assurance to Nigerians that the distribution of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) would soon normalise after it recalled the bad product imported into the country last week. The NNPC Group Executive Director (GED) Downstream, Adetunji Adeyemi, gave the assurance at a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Olubadan of Ibadan designate, Dr Lekan Balogun, says Nigeria needs a strong leader that will further strengthen its unity comes 2023. He made this statement on Sunday in Ibadan while receiving Bola Tinubu, a Presidential Aspirant and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in his Alarere residence. Tinubu, a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved the sum of $164 million under the Leveraging Energy Access Finance Framework (LEAF), to promote decentralized renewable energy in six African countries. The $800 million programme will help spur commercial and local currency investments to scale up the activities of decentralized renewable energy companies in Ghana, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), have foiled an attempt by a syndicate to push into circulation fake $4.7 million or about N2.7 billion. This is contained in a statement by the Director, Media, and Advocacy, NDLEA, Mr. Femi Babafemi on Sunday in Abuja. Babafemi said that the operatives […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Reno Omokri, a former presidential aide has enjoined the Nigerian law enforcement agencies especially the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, and the Police to make sure that embattled DCP Abba Kyari is treated like a criminal. African Examiner recalls that Abba Kyari was earlier […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kenya has confirmed the death of the High Commissioner of Kenya to Nigeria, Ambassador Wilfred Machage. According to a statement on the Ministry’s website, Machage collapsed at his Abuja residence on Saturday and was rushed to the hospital, where he passed on at 12.30 p.m. “Machage […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has expressed displeasure over the conduct of Saturday governorship primary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun. Aregbesola, who was absent at his Ifofin Ward 8 in Ilesa East Local Government area, expressed his displeasure in a statement made available to newsmen in Osogbo, on […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – One person was allegedly shot dead on Saturday by gunmen, suspected to be cultists at a polling centre in Odogbo-Ijesa in Atakumosa East Local Government Area of Osun. African Examiner reports that the victim (nameswitheld) was waiting to vote during the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary election in his ward. Confirming […]
