(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – 30 students kidnapped from a government school in Yauri , Kebbi state and a teacher, have regained freedom from bandits who kept them in captivity since June last year. An aide to the Governor of Kebbi state on media and publicity,Yahaya Sarki, in a statement, revealed that the victims were taken to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Khalifa Muhammad Sanusi ll, the President General Jam’iyyatu Ansariddeen (Attijaniyya), Nigeria, has advised eligible voters in Nigeria to register, get their voters’ card (PVC) and vote the best and competent candidates in all positions in subsequent elections. He made the call on Saturday in Lokoja, at the last day of the three-day […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The first daughter of the late Soun of Ogbomoso Prof.Taibat Danmole has passed away, days after the monarch ‘s death, Oba Oladunni Oyewumi . Oba Oyewumi died on December 12 at the age of 95 while the first daughter of the late monarch, Prof Taibat Danmole, died on Saturday, January 8 at […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chelsea goalkeeper Edouard Mendy could miss Senegal’s opening game of the Africa Cup of Nations against Zimbabwe after he was among a new group of players to test positive for Covid-19. Mendy, captain Kalidou Koulibaly and forward Famara Diedhiou returned positive results Saturday during required tests 48 hours ahead of their tournament […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At least 22 people, including 10 children, died in a popular mountain resort town in Pakistan after being stuck in their vehicles overnight during a heavy snowstorm as temperatures plummeted, officials said Saturday. Most of the victims died of hypothermia, officials said. Among them was an Islamabad police officer and seven other […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – It was an epic experience for Lagosians at Burna Boy: The Live Experience Concert organized by Toro Entertainment Company on Monday, December 27 2021 at the Eko Convention Centre, Lagos as Burna Boy showed up in Grand Style for his fans. After performing on several stages across the world including selling out […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A lecturer at Captain Elechi Amadi Polytechnic, Port Harcourt, River State, has been suspended for three months over allegations of sexual harassment of female student. The lecturer, Tamunotonye Solomon will face disciplinary committee to explain his involvement with the student, Blessing Audu. Solomon and Audu, a 200-level student of the institution, have […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), Lagos State Council has reiterated its determination to go on a 3 day warning strike starting on Monday January 10 through Wednesday, January 13. At a general congress of all the Nurses in the State held on Friday, January 7 in Lagos, the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Ghebreyesus, has said the omicron variant of the coronavirus pandemic is leading to hospitalisation and killing people, just as other variants. Mr Ghebreyesus said this on Thursday at a media briefing on COVID-19, noting that the omicron variant should not be classified as […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Government is not happy that three days after the official resumption of schools for a new term, some private schools are still on holiday, while attendance has not peaked in those which have resumed. The Director-General, Office of Education Quality Assurance, OEQA, Mrs Abiola Seriki-Ayeni, who led a team […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Singer, Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable, who became a sensation after his hit single titled, ‘Zazu Zeh’, on which he featured rapper, Olamide Adedeji, aka Baddo, and popular dancer, Iwe Pascal, popularly known as Poco Lee, went viral on social media about a month ago, has had another faceoff with his […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Sylvester Oromoni, the father of the late 12-year-old pupil of Dowen College, Lekki, Lagos, Sylvester Oromoni Jnr, has vowed to get justice, saying that he would not bury his son even if it takes 30 years to get justice. He also kicked against the report of the autopsy carried out at the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed worry concerning the death of 19 passengers who died on Thursday in a road accident that occurred on the Kano-Zaria Road. The president’s message was contained in a statement signed on Friday by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu. Reacting to the incident, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Spiritual Director of the Adoration Ministry Enugu, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, has stated that the country may come to an end if the north keeps power in the forthcoming 2023 general elections. Mbaka, disclosed this in a sermon at the adoration ground in Enugu State, as he cautioned President Muhammadu Buhari […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Spiritual Director of the Adoration Ministry Enugu, Rev. Father Ejike Mbaka, has cautioned that nothing should happen to the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, as the country would collapse. If anything happens to Kanu. In a video that has since gone viral, the cleric, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari may surprise the people of South-East come 2023. Kalu disclosed this in his Camp Neya country home in Igbere after a meeting with members of his political structures in Abia. According to the lawmaker, Buhari’s single biggest capital project is being constructed […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Dared devil gunmen on Thursday attacked a police facility in Imo State, Nigeria’s South-east. The police spokesperson in Imo, Mike Abattam, who confirmed the attack in a statement on Thursday, said the incident occurred in the early hours of the day at Ideato South Police Station. The gunmen were “shooting sporadically, and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lagos State Chief Coroner, Justice Mojisola Dada, has fixed January 15, 2022, for the commencement of inquest into the cause of death of Sylvester Oromoni, a 12-year-old student of Dowen College, Lekki, Lagos. It would be recalled that Lagos Director of Public Prosecution, DPP, Ms. Adetutu Oshinusi, has absolved the five students […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Africa Centre for Disease Control, on Thursday, said Nigeria had experienced a 249 per cent increase in new deaths as a result of COVID-19 just as a tally of epidemiological reports issued by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control revealed that no fewer than 25 persons died in five days. The […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kogi State Police Command has nabbed three suspected kidnappers, recovered one Dane gun, two cartridges, food items and N45,000. DSP William Ovye Aya, Police Public Relations Officer for the Police Command, disclosed this in a statement he signed, a copy of which was made available to our Correspondent in Lokoja on Thursday. […]
