(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – All is set for the coronation ceremony of Oba Kayode Adenekan Afolabi as the new Alapomu of Apomuland in Osun State. At a press conference on Thursday in Apomu, the Asiwaju of Apomu, Chief Olaitan Alabi, said the town is one of the oldest in Yorubaland and had been in existence for […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Kenyan former president, Daniel Arap Moi has died. He was 95 years old. His death was announced by President Uhuru Kenyatta in a statement on Tuesday. Mr. Kenyatta ordered national flags to fly half-staff from Tuesday until the day of the burial. Recall that allies of the ailing Jomo Kenyatta had […]
(AFRICN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed retired Nigerian professional footballer, former Super Eagles player and Assistant Coach, Daniel Amokachi, Nigeria’s Football Ambassador. Amokachi, a member of the 1994 Super Eagles Team that won the African Nations Cup in Tunisia, was also in the Nigerian Olympic Football Team to the 1996 Atlanta Olympics that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Egyptian court, on Monday sentenced 37 people to jail terms including life imprisonment for joining or supporting Islamic State’s Sinai Province affiliate, judicial sources said. Militants loyal to Islamic State have been waging an insurgency in the north of the Sinai Peninsula and other parts of the country that has killed […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Sen. Emmanuel Bwacha, representing Taraba South Senatorial District and Senate Deputy Minority Leader, on Sunday voiced his endorsement of ‘Operation Amotekun’ recently launched by governors in South-West zone. He advised other zones to borrow a leaf from the South-West by coming up with their various security networks for a more secured Nigeria. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bauchi State Police Command said it had apprehended a man, Solomon Peters, who allegedly stabbed his girlfriend, Miss Patience Zakari, to death. Peters was alleged to have taken to his heels after committing the heinous crime in the early hours of Friday. Police Public Relations Officer in charge of Bauchi Command, DSP […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police fired tear gas in clashes with several thousand protesters demanding the resignation of Gambia’s President Adama Barrow on Sunday, an opposition leader told dpa. Demonstrators retaliated with stones and by burning tires in the streets of the capital Banjul, opposition coalition leader Abdou Njie said. The demonstrators are angry that Barrow […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State says his administration can thrive without revenues from the Federal Allocations. He said that the state could thrive because the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) of the state had improved. Ugwuanyi said this on Tuesday in Enugu during the launch and public presentation of the Revised Enugu […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Simon Lalong of Plateau, says the 19 Northern states have gone far in their efforts to introduce community policing in the region. Lalong spoke with State House correspondents after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. His words: “When you talk about North Central, I […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A total of 1,919 Rwandan refugees have been repatriated from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), following a Congolese military offensive against armed groups in the east of the country, an official said. Rwandan Foreign Minister Vincent Biruta said this at a news conference in Kigali on Thursday. The returnees are now […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A military plane carrying judges and injured people crashed on Thursday in the Darfur region of Sudan. Report says all those on board the aircraft which crashed five minutes after taking off were killed. The Antonov plane was travelling from the city of El Geneina – located in the west of Sudan, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ethiopian embassy in Dar Es Salaam said on Tuesday that the Tanzanian government would release 1,443 Ethiopian prisoners, who will be assisted to return home. The embassy said in a statement that the decision to free the prisoners was made after a trilateral discussion involving Ethiopian embassy officials, European Union (EU) […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said the government headquarters would be relocated to the New Administrative Capital in 2020 and that it would use modern systems to reduce human error. “We made sure that all the relevant AI technologies and applications are incorporated in the process of digitising all the Egyptian government’s services,” […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The radical Sunni Islamic State group on Saturday claimed responsibility for the bombing of a passenger bus that killed at least 11 people in Iraq’s mostly Shiite province of Karbala the day before. The explosion was caused by a bomb planted inside the bus, according to the Iraqi Interior Ministry. Islamic State […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has approved, Mr Babatunde Irukera, a Kogi governorship aspirant, to contest the party’s governorship primary. The party in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Malam Lanre Issa-Onilu, in Abuja on Wednesday, said Irukera successfully met the conditions provided by […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja Sunday for Japan to participate in the Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD7) holding in the City of Yokohama, August 28-30, 2019. President Buhari’s participation will be his second, having attended TICAD6 in Nairobi, Kenya, in August 2016. With the theme, “Africa and Yokohama, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zimbabwe’s largest confederation of trade unions, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) on Friday said it would call for employers to pay their workers in foreign currency starting from June 2019. ZCTU made the call as agitation grows among the general workforce for employers to review salaries upward in view of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – South Sudan lawmakers on Thursday stormed out of a budget presentation for the 2019/20 financial year by the finance minister, citing frustrations over non-payment of salaries of civil servants and soldiers, a Reuters witness said. “Our army is cutting down trees to make a living, our foreign missions; it is now almost […]
…Winners to Represent Nigeria At World Championship In New York (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The 2019 Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) World Championship, sponsored by Zenith Bank, has produced six national winners who will be representing Nigeria at the World Championship taking place in New York, USA from July 28 – 31, 2019. The national winners of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), Ahmad Ahmad, has reportedly been arrested. Reports said he was arrested Thursday at the Berri Hotel in Paris, France. He is said to be in France for the FIFA Congress. According to Jeune Afrique, Ahmad will be heard by the services of the […]
