(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Guy Brice Parfait Kolelas, leading opposition presidential candidate in Republic of Congo’s election, died on Sunday, a day after the country went to the polls. Kolelas was hospitalised on the eve of the elections and died of Covid-19 as he was being taken to France for treatment, his campaign director Christian Cyr […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria has refuted claims that it is responsible for the assassination attempt on Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, by gunmen on Saturday. It had reported that gunmen suspected to be herdsmen had on Saturday attacked the governor in his farm at Tyo-Mu community, near Makurdi, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Founder of Stanbic IBTC and Anap Foundation, Atedo Peterside, says the approval of $1.5 billion for the rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt refinery in Rivers state should be put into “an informed national debate”.It recalls that the Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday announced the rehabilitation exercise of the refinery.According to the minister […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Internet and social media access was short down in the Republic of Congo on Sunday as polls opened in a presidential election which veteran leader Denis Sassou Nguesso is expected to win The internet went down just after midnight, several hours before the opening of polling stations at 7:00 am (0600 GMT), […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police broke up demonstrations by opposition movements and civil society groups in Chad’s capital N’Djamena Saturday, three weeks ahead of a presidential vote expected to be won by 30-year incumbent Idriss Deby Itno. With large numbers of officers on the streets, few were able to answer calls to turn out from opposition […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa (retd.),has stated that the South-West has the highest cases of drug abuse in Nigeria. Marwa disclosed this on Friday during the inauguration of a rehabilitation centre for drug addicts built by a group known as Ogbomoso First Initiative. According […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Senegal’s football federation has called on its French-based players to be released for upcoming Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers, calling the league’s ban on internationals travelling outside the European Union “discriminatory” The French football league (LFP) announced this week that its clubs will bar non-European players for playing for their country later […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Republic of Congo votes in presidential elections on Sunday with incumbent Denis Sassou Nguesso aiming to extend his decades-long hold on power in the Central African state. Sassou Nguesso has accumulated 36 years in office — he was most recently re-elected in 2016, after which the opposition was effectively sidelined and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tanzania’s Samia Suluhu Hassan was on Friday sworn in as the country’s first female president after the sudden death of John Magufuli from an illness shrouded in mystery. Hassan, 61, a soft-spoken Muslim woman from the island of Zanzibar, will finish Magufuli’s second five-year term, set to run until 2025. Wearing a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former senator representing Kogi West in the National Assembly, Dino Melaye, has enjoined President Buhari to shelve plans to spend $1.5bn on renovating the Port Harcourt refinery. The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday had approved $1.5 billion for the repair of the Port Harcourt refinery. Reacting, Melaye stated that this was […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former vice-president, Atiku Abubakar, has faulted the decision by the federal government to spend the sum of $1.5 billion to rehabilitate the Port Harcourt refinery, Rivers state The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday had approved the sum for the project According to the minister of state for petroleum, Timipre Sylva, the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tanzania is set to swear in Samia Hassan Suluhu as president of the East African country who became the first female vice-president after President John Pombe Magufuli was elected in 2015. It reported the death of John Pombe Magufuli, who died of heart complications. Tanzanian constitution states that, “Where the office of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The news that President Muhammadu Buhari has named a road in the federal capital territory (FCT) after the president of Niger Republic, Issoufou Mahamadou, has sparked social media reactions. According to media reports, at a ceremony in Abuja on Tuesday, Mohammed Bello, FCT minister, stated that the expressway was named after the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Isyaka Amao, chief of air staff, says the Nigerian military is battle-ready to “flush out” bandits and kidnappers from the country. The air chief said the military has perfected plans to go after criminal elements terrorising Nigerians. He spoke during an operational visit to the Nigerian air force base in Kaduna state. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has arrested former registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Dibu Ojerinde for allegedly misappropriating N900 million. The ICPC announced this in a statement that Ojerinde allegedly committed multiple frauds while he headed JAMB and the National Examination Council (NECO). […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has named a road in the federal capital territory (FCT) after the president of Niger Republic, Issoufou Mahamadou.At a ceremony in Abuja on Tuesday, Mohammed Bello, FCT minister, stated that the expressway was named after the Nigerien president for his “significant role in the promotion of peace in Africa”.“Earlier today, the first […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Peoples Democratic Party has stated that the report by the National Bureau of Statistics showing 33.3 per cent unemployment rate in the country is “a direct confirmation that the much-orchestrated claims of massive job creation by the Muhammadu Buhari Presidency and the All Progressives Congress are mere statistic hoax being used […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – New Confederation of African Football president Patrice Motsepe raised the bar Tuesday for national teams in the continent by insisting one of them must win the World Cup soon. “An African team must win the World Cup in the near future,” said the 59-year-old South African billionaire at a press conference in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Zamfara police command has redeployed its divisional police officer (DPO) in Kaura-Namoda after allegations of conniving with bandits in the area emerged. The command’s public relations officer, Mohammed Shehu in a statement stated that no formal complaints have been lodged against the unnamed DPO. Shehu enjoined the public to assist the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Dhariqa Tijaniyya, an Islamic sect, has denied appointing former Emir of Kano, Malam Muhammadu Sanusi II, as its leader in Nigeria. Sheikh Mahi Nyass, the Grand World Leader (Caliphatul Arrm) of Dhariqa Tijaniyya disclosed this when he spoke with newsmen in Sokoto. Nyasa, also the son and Vicegerent (Calipha) of Shehu […]
