(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The body of the missing Army General, Retired Major General Idris Alkali has reportedly been found. The remains of the retired Military officer according to Channel Television were discovered in Guchwet in Shen of Jos South LGA of Plateau State. The leader of the operation search and rescue, Brigadier General Umar Mohammed, was quoted as […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria’s Police has arraigned Senator Isiaka Adeleke and four other suspects over charges on alleged examination malpractices. The Senator and other four were arraigned Wednesday before Justice I.E Ekwo of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. Adeleke who is representing the Osun State West Senatorial district and the Governorship candidate of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The immediate past Governor of Ekiti State Mr. Ayodele Fayose has been released from prison. Fayose’s release was confirmed Monday evening by his lawyer, Mr. Mike Ozekhome (SAN). The ex-Governor was last week granted a N50m bail with sureties by Justice Mojisola Olatoregun of a Federal High Court in Lagos. Ozekhome confirmed that the […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Prominent politicians across the political parties in Nigeria have been mourning the death on Sunday, of a former Chairman, Board of Trustees of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Tony Anenih. Anenih otherwise called ‘’Mr Fix It’’ according Mr. Anthony Anenih (jnr) who issued a statement on behalf of the family died Sunday in […]
Photo: Relatives of passengers aboard the ill-fated Lion Air Flight JT-610 (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Lion Air flight with 189 people on board crashed into the sea moments after taking off from Indonesia’s capital early Monday. The airliner said it had lost contact with Flight JT-610 and Indonesia’s search and rescue agency posted images of debris […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The South- East zonal chapter of Buhari Support Organisation BSO, has insisted that it is the turn of the zone to produce Nigeria President of Igbo extraction in 2023. It stated this in a statement made available to newsmen in Enugu at the end of her caucus meeting […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No fewer than six persons including a police corporal were on Friday killed by bandits in Gurbin Bore village, Zurmi Local Government Area of Zamfara State, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Confirming the incident to NAN in Gusau on Saturday, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, SP […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The lingering crisis rocking the association of tricycle riders transport union in Enugu state, South- East Nigeria seems to have been over, as factional leaders of the group have embraced peace and pledged their loyalties to the authentic chairman, Comrade Benjamin Ejiofor Ika, led executive. Ika’s executive is […]
Photo: Mr. Gerald Eke, Injured Police Office attached to Enugu APC Chairman By Ignatius Okpara, Enugu The Enugu state chairman of the All progress congress APC, Dr. Ben Nwoye, narrowly escape death in the early hours of Saturday, as heavily armed suspected assassination invaded his Enugu residence. According to Nwoye, the hoodlums, who gained entrance […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ethiopia’s President Mulatu Teshome Wednesday filed his resignation letter request to the Ethiopian Parliament. Teshome, who has been the East African country’s head of state since October 2013, submitted the letter of resignation as the Ethiopian parliament’s two houses are scheduled to consider it. The houses would eventually name his successor in a joint […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government FG has proposed a total of N8.73tr for 2019 budget. Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, disclosed this Wednesday in State House Abuja, at the end of the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting. Senator Udoma explained that FEC has pegged as benchmark, the price of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senator representing Rivers West, Osinakachukwu Ideozu has defected from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Senate Majority Leader Ahmed Lawan, announced Osinakachukwu’s defection at plenary on Wednesday. Lawan who was moving a motion for the adjournment of plenary till November 6, 2018 welcomed and congratulated the new […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday fixed November 19, 2018 for the trial of ex-Ekiti Governor, Ayodele Fayose to commence, after he was granted bail in the sum of N50 million. Fayose is standing trial on a charge of N6.9 billion electioneering campaign fraud. He was arraigned on Oct. 22 […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chief John Odigie Oyegun, former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) must be having a good laugh wherever he is. If he is just finishing a meal, he can afford to pick his teeth and belch from the deepest part of his biological system, and even turn up his nose […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The post-congresses crises of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has worsened as the Ogun State Governor Senator Ibikunle Amosun, has taken a swipe at the party’s Leader Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and a former Governor of the state, Aremo Olusegun Oshoba, over alleged complicity in electoral fraud in the South West State. […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A group under the aegies of Enugu State,Youth Coalition for Good Governance, has raised the alarm over alleged plans by members of an opposition political party in the state “to destroy all billboards erected in strategic locations in Enugu by supporters of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP)-led state […]
By Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A body, operating under the banner of South-East Renewal Group (SERG) has lambasted runaway leader of proscribed Indigenous people of Biafra IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, for declaring that there will be no election in South- Eastern Nigeria which he claimed to be Biafra land in 2019. They however, urged […]
LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has remanded the immediate past Governor of Ekiti State Mr. Ayodele Fayose in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged N2.2bn fraud. Justice Mojisola Olatoregun while granting on Monday the prayer by a former Attorney General of the Federation […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Kaduna State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) has disclosed that 23 people were killed and 17 injured in various parts of Kaduna metropolis during the violence that took place on Sunday. The Executive Secretary, SEMA, Ben Kure, disclosed this on Monday, during an assessment tour of affected areas. According to him, no […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, is outraged by the continued killing and abduction of civilians by armed groups in North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), his spokesman said on Monday. Guterres condemned Saturday’s killing of at least 11 civilians, including one boy, as well as the injury and abduction […]
