(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari canceled his trip to Zamfara because of the fear of being attacked by terrorists. It could be recalled that Buhari, who was in Sokoto on Thursday to inaugurate some projects, was supposed to proceed to Zamfara to discuss insecurity in the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Benue State Commissioner for Information, Culture, and Tourism, Hon Michael Inelagwu, has stated that all Nigerians regret voting President Muhammadu Buhari as the nation’s president. Inelagwu made this known on Friday, during a world press conference as he talked concerning the reaction of a press statement by the Senior Special Assistant to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Olujonwo, son of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has pledged his support to Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) if the latter joins the 2023 presidential race. The Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Babafemi Ojudu, disclosed this in a Facebook post on Saturday. Ojudu stated that Olujonwo visited him on Friday to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Northern youths, under the aegis of Arewa Youth Assembly, have enjoined popular businessmen, to join the 2023 presidential race. According to them, Nigeria needs the entrepreneurial acumen and leadership skills of citizens, such as Alhaji Aliko Dangote, Femi Otedola, Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and many others, who have made names for themselves in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Customers queuing to buy petrol on Wednesday at a filling station in Abuja were left distraught after learning that the fluid the pumps at the station were dispensing into their vehicles was not fuel. The drama occurred at the Azman Oil and Gas Ltd at Wuse Zone 5, Abuja, where motorists rushed […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said that the pursuit of the common good requires a collective condemnation and exposure of corruption and corrupt practises, which he termed cancer to the country. This is as he said only leaders inspired by a higher purpose other than their profit could bring about national transformation. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Director of Defence Information, Major General Jimmy Akpor, has attributed the attacks in Zamfara and Niger states on poor road networks, communication infrastructure and the vastness of the affected communities. Fleeing terrorists have been launching ferocious attacks on communities, killing and abducting many residents, following the bombardment of their territories in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, says the President Muhammadu Buhari administration has achieved more in infrastructure development in six years than the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) did in 16 years under three presidents. He said the achievement is despite the administration having smaller resources than the preceding PDP administrations. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A bridge in Pittsburgh, which was covered in snow, collapsed on Friday morning, free hours before the President of the United States, Joe Biden, was expected to visit the city. Biden had previously planned on visiting the city to discuss infrastructure before the unfortunate incident. According to the Mayor of Pittsburgh, Ed […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The lawmaker representing Oyo Central senatorial district, Teslim Folarin, has lost his wife, Barrister Angela, to the cold hands of death. According to the media aide of Senator Folarin, YSO Olaniyi, in a statement made available to Vanguard, the woman died on Friday in the United Kingdom. Olaniyi said: “With total submission […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Angry youths on Thursday apprehended and set ablaze two members of a notorious suspected armed robber gang along Nkume junction by Mgbabano-Umuaka Road, Eziama Obaire in Nkwere local government area of Imo State. It was gathered that the suspects have been operating engaging in the criminal act using motorcycles. An eyewitness said […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Enugu based lawyer, Barr. C.D Ezeh, and Civil Liberties organization (CLO), have urged the inspector General of police (IGP) Baba Alkali, police Service Commission (PSC), and Enugu State CP, Abubakar Lawal, to use their good offices to probe alleged acts of impunity, insubordination, and attempt to truncate justice leveled against a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The West African bloc ECOWAS on Friday suspended Burkina Faso following a coup, but will not impose other sanctions for the time being, a participant at a virtual summit said. ECOWAS is also calling for the new junta to release ousted president Roch Marc Christian Kabore and other officials detained during Monday’s […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Barely three weeks after Bola Tinubu, chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), announced his presidential ambition, the former Lagos State governor has traveled out of the country. According to a The Cable, a source who is in the camp of the former Lagos governor stated that Tinubu traveled to London, the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Biodun Oyebanji, the governorship candidate of the APC, has stated that Ekiti State governor, Kayode Fayemi, has no influence in his emergence as the standard-bearer of the party in the state. African Examiner recalls that on Thursday, Oyebanji, former secretary to the state government (SSG), gathered 101,703 votes to emerge as APC’s […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Friday expressed hope that he would emerge victorious concerning the terrorism charges leveled against him by the federal government. Kanu expressed optimism that his present trial at the Abuja Federal High Court would soon end. He disclosed this in his routine […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the military not to spare Bandits and terrorists in the country . The President spoke on his directive to the military high command yesterday in Sokoto at the palace of the Sultan, Sa’ad Abubakar III. He reaffirmed the order in a broadcast to the people of Zamfara […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Dangote Cement Plc yesterday announced that it mopped up about 126.75 million ordinary shares of 50 kobo each worth N35.1 billion during its just concluded share buyback programme. In a regulatory filing at the Nigerian Exchange (NGX), Dangote Cement indicated that 126.748 million shares, representing 0.74 per cent of the company’s issued […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Government said it would be diverting traffic from Yaba as it continues the First Phase of the construction of the Red Line railways covering Oyingbo to Agbado from midnight February 1, to February 16, 2022. In a statement, the Commissioner for Transportation, Dr Frederic Oladeinde, said the diversion was […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Police Force has debunked reports that its helicopter crashed in Bauchi State. This was contained in a statement by the NPF’s spokesperson, Frank Mba, on Thursday, titled, ‘Police helicopter in controlled safe-landing in Bauchi … Not crashed as reported, none of the occupants sustained any injury whatsoever.” However, the Accident […]
