(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – American business magazine, Forbes, says 44 newcomers joined its list of 400 America’s richest people in 2021, a post on its verified Instagram page @Forbes, on Sunday, said. According to the magazine, the 400 richest Americans are now 40 per cent richer than they were last year—worth a collective $4.5 trillion. Those […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Katsina Police command says it has repelled an attack by bandits on Gidan Duka village, in Kankara Local Government Area (LGA) of the state, during which it rescued 11 kidnap victims in Safana. SP Gambo Isah, the command’s spokesperson who disclosed this in a statement issued to newsmen in Katsina, said […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The vice president of the Dangote Group, Sani Dangote, brother to Aliko Dangote, is dead. Mr Dangote died in the United States Sunday after a protracted illness. Relatively less popular than his billionaire brother, Mr Dangote had investments in manufacturing, agriculture, banking and oil services. He sat on the boards of several […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Long queues have resurfaced in Abuja filling states as motorists struggle to purchase Premium Motor Spirit, also known as petrol. African Examiner reports that most fuel stations were locked while long queues were noticed in retail outlets in Wuse, Gwarimpa, Wuye and Kubwa expressway on Sunday. A private car owner, Mr Emmanuel […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Commissioner of Police in Lagos, CP Hakeem Odumosu, has said that all the police stations burnt in the state during last year’s EndSARS protests are now undergoing renovation. Odumosu, who disclosed this to the African Examiner on Sunday, stressed that some of the police stations had been completed and were now ready […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Oil Spills Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) on Sunday said that the Nov. 5 oil spill which occurred at an oil well within Oil Mining Lease (OML) 29 is yet to be abated, 10 days on. African Examiner learnt that NOSDRA officials who were deployed to ascertain the cause and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The police in Kano State have rescued one Alhaji Nadabo, 80, from suspected kidnappers in Garun Mallam local government area of the state. This is contained in a statement issued by the police spokesman, DSP Abdullahi Haruna-Kiyawa, on Sunday in Kano. “On Nov. 12, 2021, at about 19:57 hours, a report was […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted fresh consignments of cocaine and heroin weighing 16.85 kilograms and worth more than N4.9 billion in street value. This is contained in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja by NDLEA’s Director, Media and Advocacy, Mr Femi Babafemi. Babafemi stated that NDLEA operatives […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A 12-year-old Senior Secondary School (SSS) student, Miss Zainab Jimoh, has called on Nigerians to avail themselves of the COVID-19 vaccine in order to help the nation’s struggling economy. Jimoh, an SSS 1 student of Elite Comprehensive School, Auchi, made the call in Auchi, Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo, at […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Igbo Presidency come 2023 is possible and feasible, the apex sociocultural organisation in Igbo land, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, has said. Ohaneze disclosed this in a statement signed by the factional Secretary-General of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Chief Okechukwu Isiguzuro, saying that any attempt to scuttle the 2023 Igbo Presidential project on […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State, Chief Gboyega Oguntuase, has stated that Senator Biodun Olujimi’s governorship ambition will bring to an end the internal wrangling in the party in the state and ensure PDP’s return to Ekiti Government House through the 2022 election. Oguntuase, who is the Director for Campaigns […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Moroccan police on Saturday seized 3.21 tonnes of cannabis near the city of Guelmim. During this operation, five people aged between 34 and 47, were arrested for their alleged links to an international drug trafficking network, said a statement by the Moroccan police. Many materials were seized, including two inflatable boats […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, has disowned a publication attributed to him about “Defence Headquarters warning soldiers against overthrowing Buhari’s regime”. Nwachukwu, in a statement , said the publication, which was riddled with outrageous lies and fabrications, claimed that the “Defence Headquarters has denounced a call for the military […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lead agitator for self-determination for Yoruba ethnic group, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, insists he has not committed any offence to warrant trial by the Beninese government. Speaking exclusively with Sunday Vanguard, through his lead counsel, Chief Yomi Alliyu (SAN), at the weekend, Igboho noted that the Beninese government was […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has defeated Kwara Falcons 76-73 to record their first win of the 2021 Super 8 Men’s Premier Basketball League. Our correspondent reports that Kwara Falcons led in the first and second quarters, 21-17 and 26-15 respectively. Nigeria Customs fought back and won the third and fourth quarters […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Alhaji Lawal Usman, a Chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) says the party must zone its presidential ticket to the North for 2023 general elections for strategic reasons. Usman, popularly called ‘Mr LA’, said this when he spoke in Zaria . “For the strategic interest of the party and the nation, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Union of Journalists, Abuja Chapter, has rejected the account of the police on the circumstances surrounding the disappearance and subsequent death of Vanguard Newspaper reporter, Tordue Salem. The Chairman of the NUJ FCT council, Emmanuel Ogbeche, while receiving a letter from the House of Representatives Press Corps at the NUJ […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kenyan anti-terrorism police officers said on Saturday they are interrogating a terror suspect who was arrested at a shopping centre in Nairobi. The Police said the suspect, identified as Ali Abdullahi Hussein, had approached a police officer on patrol at around 2.00 a.m. and wanted to seek information about a certain club. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Brigadier General of the Nigerian Army has been killed in an ambush by terrorists of the Islamic State of West Africa Province in Borno State. ISWAP had attacked troops at a military base in Askira/Uba Local Government Area of Borno State on Saturday morning according to reports. Four other soldiers were […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nine junior high school students drowned , after two canoes capsized on a river in the Northern Region of Ghana, the Police confirmed on Saturday. Bernard Baba Ananga, Northern Regional Crime Officer of the Ghana Police Service, told Xinhua that about 31 students were on the canoes, which they used to cross […]
