(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Veteran comic actor, Babatunde Omidina, popularly known as Baba Suwe, has been buried today. The actor died in the Ikorodu area of Lagos on Monday. The news of his death drew reactions from prominent Nigerians including the Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo who said, “Baba Suwe’s death had left a vacuum […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Researchers in the U.S. state of Nebraska have identified 102 students who died at a government-run boarding school as Native American children, British newspaper The Independent said in a report. The students, most of them young children, were identified as researchers continue to search for a cemetery used by the Genoa U.S. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted 9.30 kilograms of cocaine worth over N2.7 billion at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) Abuja. The NDLEA spokesperson, Mr Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Thursday in Abuja He said a 32-year-old drug trafficker based in Liberia, Maduabuchi Chinedu, was arrested with the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Zamfara State Taskforce Committee on Compliance to Gov. Bello Matawalle’s Executive Order on insecurity has ordered immediate closure of a filling station and bakery in Gusau and Tsafe local government areas of the state. Chairmen of Committee, Abubakar Dauran, gave the order shortly after security forces arrested four suspects for alleged […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has called on the Federal Government to consider options to help the country embrace developmental governance and accountable leadership, while rejecting the planned petroleum price increase. NLC President, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, made the call in a statement he issued to newsmen in Abuja, entitled: ”Nigerian workers refused […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Popular Nigerian comedian Afamefuna Igwemba, popularly known as Klint Da Drunk, has expressed gratitude to God for surviving a car crash. While the car was damaged to a large extent behind, the humour merchant was unscathed. Praising God for surviving the accident unscratched, the comedian posted some pictures of the wrecked car […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki has stated that the North Central geo-political zone has worked hard for the unity of the country and it is time for the region to produce the next president. Saraki disclosed this at the Benue Peoples House, Makurdi while interfacing with the State Working Committee of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria’s Senate in Abuja has kicked against alleged high scale secret employment in the civil service despite claims that the federal government had placed embargo on job placement. This was even as the upper legislative chamber lamented that many unemployed youths have found insurgency, banditry, kidnapping and other criminal acts as […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has condemned the resurgence of Ponzi schemes and illegal fund managers in the country’s financial sector. The Director-General of SEC, Mr Lamido Yuguda, frowned at the development at an enlightenment workshop with the staff of the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning on Wednesday […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A dismissed police officer simply identified as Samuel was among the kidnap syndicate arrested by men of the Rapid Response Squad in Ekiti State. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Tunde Mobayo, said, “Samuel has confessed to being a member of the kidnapping gang and had participated in different abduction and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tanzania said on Wednesday it would allow pregnant students and teenaged mothers to continue with their studies, reversing a heavily-criticised policy instituted by its late autocratic leader John Magufuli. In 2017, the East African country began expelling pregnant girls from state schools and banned them from returning to class after giving birth, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA) has dismissed insinuations in some reports that its proposed 2022 budget was padded with N4.5 billion. The Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi, said this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. Babafemi said the agency had been inundated with calls and messages […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Ogun has arrested five suspected members of a kidnap gang terrorizing residents of Obada-Oko, Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of the state. The Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, made this known in a statement on Wednesday in Abeokuta. The suspects: Aliu Manya, Usman Abubakar, Abayomi Olayiwola, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – EFCC has declared that banking sector fraud is largely perpetrated by insider Information, Communication Technology (ICT) employees. Mr Abbah Sambo, Head, Cybercrime Section of the EFCC, made the disclosure at a national seminar on Banking and Allied Matters for judges. Sambo represented the EFCC chairman, Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa, at the seminar. He […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian traders has condemned ECOWAS’ silence over border closure by the Ghanaian government thereby violating the policy on free movement in the region. Mr Chukwuemeka Nnaji, President of the Nigerian Union of Traders Association in Ghana (NUTAG), made the call in a telephone interview on Wednesday. Nnaji, who spoke against the backdrop […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Akwa Ibom Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has apprehended 40-year-old Elisha Effiong for attempting to sell his two daughters for N700, 000. This is contained in a statement issued by the NSCDC Public Relations Officer, Mr Ukeme Umana, in Uyo on Wednesday. Umana said that the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) Group Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer (GMD/CEO) Mele Kyari, has stated that petrol will sell for between N320 and N340 per liter from February, next year. Kyayi, who said Nigeria would be out of the subsidy regime in the first quarter of 2022, explained that subsidy […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The panel inaugurated by the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, to probe the suspended Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, Hadiza Bala-Usman, has failed to quiz her over six months after she was suspended. Bala-Usman, a former Chief of Staff to Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State, had been suspended by […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Cardiologist, Dr Okechukwu Anthony, has said that growing rate of abnormal high blood pressure in children, undetected or not taken seriously, has grave consequences, including organ damage. Anthony stated this in Abuja that besides diabetes, being an adult disease on the rise in children and adolescents, high blood pressure had become […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The people of Magami in Gusau Local Government Area of Zamfara state has cried for help over the worsening state of insecurity in their communities. They said bandits are destroying their farm lands and imposing levies on them. ” If you fail to pay bandits the levy, they either abduct you or […]
