By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chief Justice of Ghana, Kwasi Anin-Yeboah, has gone into self-isolation according to reports and he becomes the latest high-profile personality in Ghana to do so. In a statement signed by the Judicial Secretary, Cynthia Pamela Addo, which revealed that upon the advice of his doctors, the Justice took […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A cholera outbreak has killed 12 people in the fishing village of Londji in south Cameroon, local health authorities said Wednesday. Officials also announced 62 confirmed cases out of 83 suspected ones in the village located about 15 km from the country’s seaside resort town of Kribi. South regional governor Felix Nguele […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The World Health Organisation (WHO) says its experts will travel to China to work together with their Chinese counterparts to prepare scientific plans for identifying the zoonotic source of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). WHO, in a statement posted on its website, said the experts would develop the scope and Term of Reference (TOR) […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government (FG) has suspended the planned resumption of Federal schools for the West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) candidates. Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, disclosed this Wednesday evening to the State House Correspondents at the end of Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting. Adamu restated that […]
By Nwa Diokpa Cote d’Ivoire’s Prime Minister, Amadou Gon Coulibaly, is dead. He was aged 61. According to Ivorian Television Broadcasting (RTI), the late Prime Minister died on Wednesday. “Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly died this Wednesday, July 8, 2020 in Abidjan,” announced RTI, the leading channel on national television. It will be recalled that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate has received a request from President Muhammadu Buhari for the replacement and confirmation of two non-career Ambassadors-designate. The request was contained in a letter read during the plenary by the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan. The President sought to replace the earlier nomination of Mr. Oboro Effiong Akpabio and Brigadier General […]
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has reported an explosion incident which occurred at Gbetiokun, OML 40, operated by the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), on behalf of the NPDC/Elcrest Joint Venture. The incident, which occurred on Tuesday during the installation of a ladder on a platform (Benin River Valve Station) for access during discharging […]
From Ignatius Okpara (AFRICAN EXAMINER) -NFour policemen who stormed a suspected baby factoryat Umuocha community in Oguta council Area of Imo state, south East Nigeria, in search of an alleged stolen baby brought to the facility were on Tuesday beaten to stupor by youths of the locality. African Examiner gathered that the youths engaged by the hospital […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Some domestic airlines on Wednesday resumed operations following three months of COVID-19 lockdown. A News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent who monitored resumption of the airlines at both GAT Alpha and MM2 terminals in Lagos, reports that few passengers were seen boarding, while social distancing and other precautionary measures were observed. The […]
By Nwa Dikopa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Health minister of Ghana, Mr. Agyeman-Manu, who tested positive for coronavirus weeks ago has now recovered and resumed official duties. This was disclosed by the Deputy Health Minister, Dr. Bernard Okoe Boye, who stated that his boss recently inspected a hospital project in Accra. “Once he has been […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zimbabwe’s President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, has sacked Health Minister Obadiah Moyo over over COVID-19 related corruption. Mr Moyo was dismissed “with immediate effect for conduct inappropriate for a government minister”, a statement issued by the president’s chief secretary, Misheck Sibanda said. The Secretary of information Nick Mangwana tweeted the statement: Last month, Mr […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chief of Staff to the Kwara Governor, Alhaji Adisa Logun, died of COVID-19 complications on Tuesday, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to the Governor, Mallam Rafiu Ajakaye, confirmed the death of the CoS in a statement issued in Ilorin on Tuesday. According to Ajakaye, […]
By Niyi Adeyi (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ondo State House of Assembly has served impeachment notice on the State Deputy Governor, Mr. Agboola Ajayi. At the plenary presided over by the Speaker, Bamidele Oleyelogun, the Chairman of the House Committee on Information, Gbenga Omole, announced that there were 14 members who were in attendance, whereas, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commissions, EFCC, boss, Ibrahim Magu, has been suspended. Reports say multiple sources confirmed the suspension to journalists covering the presidential panel investigating Mr Magu over alleged corruption. On Monday, the panel grilled Magu for several hours at the Presidential Villa, Abuja before he was taken into police […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zimbabwe’s largest nursing union says police have arrested more than a dozen nurses and union representatives protesting against poor pay. The nurses are demanding to be paid in US dollars, saying that inflation, which is running at nearly 800%, is eroding their salaries. “At least 13 of our members and union leaders […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ghana’s main opposition has announced a female candidate as a vice-presidential candidate for the first time. Naana Opoku Agyeman will join forces with former president John Dramani Mahama as he attempts a comeback in December’s election. Prof Opoku Agyeman is a former education minister and a former vice-chancellor of the University of […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu …Remanded in Prison (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Magistrate Court sitting in Enugu North council Area of Enugu state on Monday arraigned and ordered that a couple, Mr Jude and Ifeoma Ozougwu, be reminded in Correctional Service centre Nsukka for attempted murder of their 10 year old housemaid, Miss. Nneoma Nnadi, pending […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Aide to former President John Agyekum Kufour, has rubbished claims that Ghana’s former head of state is recuperating at the University of Ghana Hospital after contracting the deadly coronavirus. Speaking to Daily Mail, Osei-Adubofour, stated that the former president and his family are healthy and not in the hospital. He said: “He […]
By Nwa Diokpa Former Ghana President, Jerry John Rawlings, has stated that corruption has increased in Ghana since he departed office. He stated this while speaking to Kwaku Sakyi-Addo on Asaase Radio lamenting that he supervised “neat and clean” politics during his time as president but subsequent presidents have not followed the pattern, instead have […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Unlike previous political dispensations, the opposition people’s Democratic party PDP, has declared that it would not implore zoning in picking candidate for the 2021 Anambra state governorship election. African Examiner gathered that most of the prominent political parties, including the ruling All progressive Grand Alliance APGA in the state, […]
