(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At least five people on Tuesday sustained injuries when a cargo plane crashed while landing at Agok Airstrip in the Abyei Administrative Area disputed between the border of Sudan and South Sudan. Kuol Diem Kuol, Chief Administrator of Abyei Administrative Area, told Xinhua that the Antonov 26 plane, owned by the Ministry […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government through the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority on Tuesday said adulterated petrol, fuel with methanol quantities above Nigeria’s specification, was discovered in the supply chain. In a statement, it said the supplier had been identified and appropriate sanction would apply. It also said oil marketers had been […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Aareonakakanfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams, on Tuesday, stated that the continued detention of Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho is a miscarriage of justice. Adams made this known in a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Aderemi, saying that the self-determination campaigner had not committed any crime […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Abubakar Malami, attorney-general of the federation, has stated that the federal government may prosecute popular Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, in Nigeria following his detention in Benin Republic. African Examiner recalls that in July 2021, Igboho was nabbed at the Cardinal Bernardin International Airport, Cotonou over alleged possession of a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate has confirmed Professor Ayo O. Omotayo as Director-General of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, Jos, Plateau State. This was disclosed in a statement signed by the Special Assistant (Press) to the Senate President, Ezrel Tabiowo, on Tuesday. According to the statement, Omotayo’s confirmation was sequel to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Police Force has withdrawn a case against the owner of Hotels and Resorts, Ile-Ife, Rahmon Adedoyin; and six others charged with the murder of Timothy Adegoke, who died at the hotel on November 6, 2021. African Examiner learnt that the police told an Abuja High Court on Monday that the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gunmen have invaded Ekwulobia town in Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State on Tuesday. According to an eyewitness account, the gunmen shot and killed an unidentified official of the Anambra State Traffic Management Agency, who was controlling traffic at the busy Ekwulobia Junction. It was not yet clear if the gunmen […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ontario Provincial Police, said Canadian protesters demanding an end to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine mandates on Tuesday blocked the Ambassador Bridge linking the U.S. city of Detroit and the Canadian city of Windsor. The police said on Twitter “motorists heading to the Ambassador Bridge border point on #Hwy401 westbound are advised to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The High Court of Osun State sitting at Ikire, presided over by Justice Sikiru Oke, on Tuesday, struck out a suit instituted by former Osun Governor, Rauf Aregbesola’s group, The Osun Progressives – a group within the All Progressives Congress, in Osun State. A similar suit by the Aregbesola’s group in respect […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Sen. Ademola Adeleke, one of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirants in Osun, says he didn’t walk out of the peace and reconciliation meeting on Monday in Okuku. The meeting was hosted by a former Governor in the state, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola. Adeleke made the clarification following allegations that he stormed […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER0 – Some gunmen on Sunday evening attacked Okene Police Area Command Headquarters but were repelled. One of the attackers was shot dead by police, spokesman of the Command, Williams Oyve-Aya, said yesterday in a statement. “At about 10 p.m. of Sunday, some armed hoodlums attacked the Okene Area Command Headquarters with sporadic gunshots […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – American rapper, Belcalis Almánzar, popularly known as Cardi B, has slammed trolls who left negative comments on the Instagram page of her three-year-old daughter, Kulture Cephus. The mother-of-two shared a tweet on Monday night, stating that she would ‘lock’ her daughter’s page as a tweep brought the trolls’ comments to her notice. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Some youths in Kaduna, on Tuesday has slammed a contemporary Nollywood actor, Zubby Michael, for flaunting N8,455,900 receipt of food which he posted on his Instagram account after eating from a restaurant with his friends in one night. African Examiner reports that the actor, Zubby Michael, held his birthday party at a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has started moves to avert the impending nationwide strike by aviation workers. Sen. Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment, said this at a meeting with the officials of the Ministry of Aviation and the aviation workers unions on Monday in Abuja. It would be recalled that the aviation […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Suspected bandits on Sunday abducted Reverend Father Joseph Shekari and murdered one of his cooks in Chawai, Kauru Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Ali Mudashir, a resident in the area, told the press on Monday that the bandits invaded the Catholic priest’s residence around 12.00 midnight and started shooting sporadically. According […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Hakeem Muri-Okunola, the Head of Service of Lagos State has denied reports that he is interested in governing the state and will stop the rumored second-term ambition of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu. In a statement on Sunday, February 6, 2022, Muri-okunola stated that he has no plan to replace Sanwo-Olu as he expressed […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick, has informed Portuguese coach, Jose Peseiro that he can take another job ahead of Nigeria’s 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Ghana in March. African Examiner recalls that NFF named Peseiro as Super Eagles’ substantive head coach last December following the sack of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The detention of Yoruba Nation activist Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho has been extended by six months. The Counsel for the detained activist, Chief Yomi Aliyu SAN confirmed the extended incarceration of his client. But this is contrary to claim by Abuja-based human rights lawyer Pelumi Olajengbesi on Saturday that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Imo State Police Command has arrested a suspected killer of a retired Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP), Christian Kpatuma. The police officer was killed on Wednesday by suspected cultists in the Agwa area of Oguta Local Government Area of the state. African Examiner reports that Kpatuma was abducted from his residence […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Iraq’s parliament on Monday indefinitely postponed the scheduled election of the national president, an official said, after only 58 of the 329 lawmakers showed up. Major political blocs had announced they would boycott the vote that requires a quorum of two-thirds of MPs. An official, speaking on condition of anonymity, then confirmed […]
