(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – MultiChoice’ South African TV network, Mzansi Magic, has announced the return of classic reality television show, ‘Big Brother Africa’, after a seven-year hiatus. The show is expected to be launched in 2022. According to news report, casting has begun in earnest for the show, tagged ‘Big Brother Mzansi’, and produced by Randburg-based […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Renowned virologists on Friday told Saturday PUNCH that the change in weather was largely responsible for the surge in COVID-19 cases reported in the country. The virologists, who spoke in separate interviews with our correspondents, also urged Nigerians to engage the monitoring of trends as the country might gradually slip into the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Emirates has announced the suspension of flights operations to Nigeria indefinitely. The Dubai-based airline said it took the action in response to a restriction by the Nigerian government limiting its flights to the country to just a once a week. The government on Thursday limited the carrier’s daily flights to Abuja to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) stated that the use of Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) for accreditation during elections has come to stay. INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Mr Festus Okoye, said this at the one-day Implementation meeting for the FCT Area Council Election on Friday […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Osun has arrested one Ibrahim Abdulazeez, 30, who allegedly purchased a Toyota Camry 2010 model for N2,650 from a car dealer in Osogbo, Osun State. The Commissioner of Police, Olawale Olokode, while parading some suspects at the police headquarters in Osogbo on Friday, said the Abdulazeez allegedly committed […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Kaduna State Emergency Management Agency (KADSEMA), has urged residents to be safety cautions to guard against fire outbreaks in the state. Muhammed Mukaddas, KADSEMA Executive Secretary made the appeal while commiserating with victims of fire disaster in Tudun Wada Zaria Market, on Friday. Mukaddas said that the market fire occurred at […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Sultan of Sokoto Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar has lamented that terrorists kill people on a daily basis in the northern part of the country especially in the North West and the killings are mostly not reported. This is just as the Sultan called on Christians to disregard the recent threat by some […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Co-defendants of alleged kidnap kingpin, Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike (alias Evans) on Friday prayed an Ikeja high court to acquit and discharge them of charges of conspiracy and kidnapping brought against them by Lagos State Government. Uche Amadi, Ogechi Uchechukwu, Chilaka Ifeanyi, Okwuchukwu Nwachukwu and Victor Aduba made the prayer via their counsel during […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. David Umahi of Ebonyi has approved the compulsory writing in the state all the examinations conducted by the National Examinations Council (NECO). Umahi gave the approval in Abakaliki when officials of the examination body paid him a courtesy call in his office. African Examiner reports that the governor made the writing […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Multiple award-winning artiste, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, is currently in a cheerful mood as he has gifted himself a brand new Lamborghini Aventador. The singer, who shared pictures of his newly acquired luxury car on Friday, stated that it was an early Christmas gift. “Christmas came early,” he wrote on […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Liverpool FC right-back, Trent Alexander-Arnold, has been named the Premier League’s Player of the Month for November. This is due to his recent form part of which had him contribute one goal – a pinpoint free-kick away at West Ham United – and four assists to help Liverpool continue a strong push […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ghana will from Monday vaccinate returning citizens and residents against COVID-19 upon arrival at the airport, if they have not received shots. Ghana’s Health Service Director-General, Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, made the disclosure in a statement on Friday, amid concerns over low take-up of vaccination. He said that all Ghanaians leaving the country would […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – India on Friday reported two more COVID-19 cases of the Omicron variant, taking the country’s case tally of the new variant to 25, officials said. The two cases have been reported in the Jamnagar district of the western state of Gujarat. They were both contacts of a previously confirmed Omicron case detected […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lagos socialite, Mike Eze Nwalie Nwogu better known as Pretty Mike, stormed the show of Eniola Badmus with painted men and women in underwear therefore stealing the show with his creativity . This time around, all eyes are on him at the celebration of ace Nollywood actress, Eniola Badmus. The screen diva […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gunmen have murdered the traditional ruler of Atta ancient kingdom in the Njaba Local Government Area of Imo State, Edwin Azike. His corpse was found at the market square in the community on Friday morning after he was abducted on Thursday. A community source, who craved anonymity said that four persons were […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidency has dismissed the claims in some quarters that public servants will not get paid in December due to shortfall in budgetary allocations. African Examiner reports that a circular which purportedly issued by the Federal Government advised police officers and federal civil servants to spend their November salaries wisely because their […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kaduna State Government has ordered psychiatric test for a mother who allegedly poured boiled water on her 8-year-old son in Romi area of Kaduna on Monday. African Examiner gathered that the mother allegedly took the action to punish the boy for removing a bolt from her grinding machine and sold it to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government said that the administration of booster dose to persons fully vaccinated with either two doses of AstraZeneca, Moderna or Pfizer Bio-N-Tech or a single dose of Johnson & Johnson vaccine will begin today. The government described the booster dose as another opportunity to be further protected against COVID-19, calling […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former Interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Bisi Akande, said in his new book that he knew former President Olusegun Obasanjo to be a faithless suitor and an unblinking political philanderer. In his autobiography, ‘My Participations,’ which was presented in Lagos on Thursday, the former Governor of Osun State […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Niger said gunmen had killed nine worshippers and injured six others in an attack on a mosque at Tungan Ba’are village in Mashegu Local Government Area of the state. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Monday-Bala Kuryas, who confirmed the incident, said the worshippers were killed during […]
