Posted by African Examiner
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Thursday, December 3rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate on Thursday, urged the Federal Government to provide adequate funds for purchase and administration of COVID-19 vaccine in the country. The upper chamber equally directed its Committees on Health and Primary Health Care to invite the Ministry of Health and the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 to present to it […]
Posted by African Examiner
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Thursday, December 3rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chinese expatriate, kidnapped in Ekiti state last week during which a policeman was killed, has been released. NAN reports that the expatriate, one of the contractors engaged by the Ekiti State government to construct the new Ado Ekiti-Iyin Ekiti road, was abducted last Friday at the site by gunmen who also […]
Posted by African Examiner
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Thursday, December 3rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ekiti State governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, says that the military is overwhelmed stressing the need for local communities to be involved in the fight against insurgency. Fayemi, who also doubles as the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), disclosed this when he and some governors paid a visit to Babagana Zulum, […]
Posted by African Examiner
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Thursday, December 3rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi state has sacked the political appointees he employed from Ivo local government area, where the former Senate President, Anyim Pius Anyim comes hails from. African Examiner reports that the governor and the former senate president have been at loggerheads after Governor Umahi defected from the People’s Democratic […]
Posted by African Examiner
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, World News
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday said the Department of Justice had found no evidence of widespread voter fraud that could upturn the Nov. 3 elections. “To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election,” The Associated Press (AP) quoted […]
Posted by African Examiner
African News, Business News, Latest Headlines, News
Tuesday, December 1st, 2020
…Spearheads Innovation In Electronic Banking (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – In the light of COVID-19, FirstBank has launched the FastTrack ATM, a Next Generation ATM and first of its kind in Africa, designed to promote financial activities on the ATM devoid of any form of physical interaction with the machine. The introduction of the FastTrack ATM which […]
Posted by African Examiner
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News, World News
Tuesday, December 1st, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Pfizer and BioNTech said they had submitted their COVID-19 vaccine to the European Medicines Agency for conditional approval. The companies said this in a statement on Tuesday, aiming to make their drug available in Europe by the end of the year. The partners, a U.S. pharma giant and a small German biotechnology […]
Posted by African Examiner
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Around Africa
Monday, November 30th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Association of Nigerian Traders (NANTS) has called on the Federal Government to take urgent action as Ghanaian Authorities embarked on another round of closure of shops belonging to Nigerian traders on Monday. The National President of NANTS, Dr Ken Ukaoha, who made the call in an interview with the News […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Monday, November 30th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Igando Customary Court in Lagos State on Monday dissolved 15-year-old marriage of a cleric, Yusuf Adeniyi, over infidelity. Yusuf’s wife, Rebecca, 44, sought the dissolution of the marriage, saying that she caught him cheating on her. Rebecca claimed that she caught her 47-year-old husband with a married woman on their matrimonial […]
Posted by African Examiner
Business News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News
Monday, November 30th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday re-arraigned the Managing Director of First Nation Airways Ltd., Mr Kayode Odukoya, over alleged N2.1 billion fraud. reports that the commission brought Odukoya before an Ikeja Special Offences Court on a seven-count charge. The EFCC had on March 15, 2018, arraigned the defendant […]
Posted by African Examiner
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Monday, November 30th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 82 new infections of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. The NCDC made this known via its verified website on Sunday. The public health agency said that the infections brought the total number of cases in the country to 67,412. Nigeria had tested […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Monday, November 30th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An emergency meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020. This was disclosed in a statement issued by Mr Yekini Nabena, the APC Deputy National Publicity Secretary on Sunday. Nabena said that NEC members had been invited through a […]
Posted by African Examiner
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Monday, November 30th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has joined other Nigerians to condemn the beheading of 43 farmers by Boko Haram in Zabarmari, Borno State. According to the PDP, the action indicated that President Muhammadu Buhari has failed to ensure the safety of Nigerians. In a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola […]
Posted by African Examiner
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News, World News
Friday, November 27th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Iran Foreign Ministry on Friday confirmed that a high-ranking Iranian nuclear physicist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, had been assassinated. Fakhrizadeh was shot and injured “by terrorists” in his vehicle in Ab-Sard, a suburb in eastern Tehran, and later succumbed to his injuries in what amounted to a “martyr’s death,” the ministry said. Local authorities […]
Posted by African Examiner
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Friday, November 27th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – SUSPECTED kidnappers have shot dead a first-class traditional ruler in Ondo State, the Oluifon of Ifon in Ose Local Government Area, Oba Israel Adeusi. Oba Adeusi was said to have been shot about 5:50pm near Elegbeka village along the Benin-Akure highway while returning to his community after a meeting in Akure. Sources […]
Posted by African Examiner
African News, Business News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News
Friday, November 27th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mr Mele Kyari, says the corporation deliberately shut down the nations refineries because they no longer make sense to be operated. The GMD disclosed this when he appeared before the House of Representatives Committee on Petroleum Upstream on Thursday in Abuja. He […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria, News From The State, Uncategorized
Wednesday, November 25th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna state, the zoning of political leaders as he says that no country can move forward with such a political arrangement. El-Rufai made this known on Wednesday when he spoke at the at the Nigerian Economic Summit (#NES26) in Abuja saying that every qualified person should be allowed […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, Sports News
Wednesday, November 25th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Legend Diego Maradona has died at the age of 60 following a heart attack. Matias Morla, Maradona’s longtime agent, confirmed the news on Wednesday. A statement from the Argentina Football Association read: “ The Argentine Football Association, through its President Claudio Tapia, expresses its deepest pain at the death of our legend, […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria, News From The State, Uncategorized
Wednesday, November 25th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A UK parliamentarian, Tom Tugendhat, has stirred the hornet’s nest with an allegation that former military ruler, Yakubu Gowon, “stole half of CBN”. According to reports, the lawmaker was discussing with his colleagues on the need to sanction Nigerian considering the way security forces attacked #EndSARS protesters. Tugendhat had stated: “What we […]
Posted by African Examiner
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Wednesday, November 25th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) has frowned at the detention of Senator Ali Ndume by a Federal High Court order, after he was unable to produce the former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Force, Abdulrasheed Maina. African Examiner recalls that Justice Okon Abang had directed that Ndume, the Senator […]
