(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Statistics South Africa says the country’s consumer price inflation slowed to its lowest rate in seven years as the end of the worst drought in decades helped push down food prices. Statistics South Africa’s data released on Wednesday in Johannesburg showed that headline annual consumer inflation slowed to 3.8 per cent in […]
NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Benue State Police Command has confirmed that four of its men have been killed by the suspected herdsmen. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Moses Yamu, in a statement issued Monday disclosed that sad the incident occurred at Anyibe, in the Logo Local Government Area of the state. Logo and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Government in Bayelsa State have described the latest Vanguard award conferred on Governor Henry Seriake Dickson as a clear testimony to his many achievements in the last six years. Vanguard on Saturday conferred on Dickson, the best governor award for Purposeful Leadership, Transparency and Accountability. The latest award is coming few […]
OSUN, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The authorities of Obafemi Awolowo University OAU, Ife have confirmed that the process of identifying the personality of Lecturer accused of demanding sexual gratification from a female undergraduate of the institution has begun. Vice Chancellor VC of the institution, Prof. Eyitope Ogunbodede while reacting to the alleged incident admitted […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has extended the compliance deadline to the Voluntary Assets and Income Declaration Scheme VAIDS till Wednesday, June 30 2018. The extension was announced in a statement issued Wednesday in Abuja by the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to Mr. President, Femi Adesina. The statement indicated that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No fewer than 247 people have died after a military plane crashed in Algeria. The media reports confirm that 26 members of Polisario Front, supported by Algeria and seeking independence from Morocco for Western Sahara, were among the victims. The crash occurred shortly after the plane took off from Boufarik military airport […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The last refugees still in a camp in Darfur, western Sudan are returning home today as the site closes. The UN has tweeted pictures from the refugee camp in Mukjar, 190km southwest of El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur: People from Chad sought refuge in Darfur over a decade ago despite […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tunisia’s religious affairs ministry has said it supports the government’s plan to give women equal inheritance rights, Shems FM radio reports. Religious Affairs Minister Ahmed Adhoum said his department backed the government, which has angered other religious clerics. Tunisia’s President Beji Caid Essebsi announced the inheritance changes on 6 April, meeting a […]
From Ignatius Okpara (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Barley a week after a 60-year old man hacked his son to death and buried his corpse in a shallow grave in Enugu community, the State Police has launched a manhunt for another suspect, Onyenwe Offor Ajah, for allegedly committing the same offence. The suspect according to the Police […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The wife of a foremost South African Nationalist and former President, Nelson Mandela, Winnie is dead. Winnie Mandela, according to her Spokesperson, Victor Dlamini in a statement, died Monday in a Johannesburg hospital after a long illness, at the age of 81. The marriage between the late anti-apartheid activist and Winnie lasted […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc has launched the second edition of its Campus Ambassador Programme with the induction of 30 new brand ambassadors. The UBA Campus Ambassador Programme is an initiative to identify young emerging leaders among students of tertiary institutions and give them a unique and highly rewarding learning […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Bayelsa State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Daniel Iworiso-Markson has charged members of the state chapter of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) to join the campaign against child molestation. As a reputable organization, the NIPR he said can attract more attention to the growing cases of the menace, especially […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The son of South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma has slammed the prosecutors and the judiciary for facilitating what he calls a “witch hunt” against his father, TimesLive reports. Edward Zuma said the reinstatement of corruption charges last week against his father were part of a battle to tarnish his father’s name. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The United Nations on Monday condemned Congolese security forces for killing at least 47 people, including women and children, in “unlawful and unjustified” crackdowns on protests during 2017 and early this year. Democratic Republic of Congo is facing growing public unrest since President Joseph Kabila refused to step down after his mandate […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Abakaliki (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Over one hundred buildings were on Tuesday completely razed down at Ikwo Council Area of Ebonyi State, South – East Nigeria, following a fresh bloody communal clash that ensued between the people of Inyimagu and Akpaomaka communities of the locality. Our Correspondent gathered that the incident which has […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – About 16 people were killed and while many injured by lightning Saturday at a Seventh-Day Adventist church in Rwanda. Officials said the victims died instantly when the lightning hit the church in the southern district of Nyaruguru, local Mayor Habitegeko. Mayor Habitegeko confirmed that the lightning also killed a student in the […]
Uganda’s ruling party is pushing for a referendum that could extend the longtime president’s rule to 2035. Rogers Mulindwa, a spokesman for the National Resistance Movement party, says the referendum to extend the president’s term from five years to seven most certainly will happen in 2018. In December, lawmakers passed a contentious bill that removed […]
Five South African police officers and an off-duty soldier were killed Wednesday during an attack on a rural police station. A police spokesman says an armed gang stormed the outpost in the southern village of Engcobo shortly after midnight local time and killed three of the officers. They stole a cache of weapons and abducted […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At last, Cyril Ramaphosa has emerged the new South Africa’s President. This followed the resignation later Wednesday after mounted pressure on the former SA leader Mr. Jacob Zuma. The new President was the only candidate nominated in Parliament Thursday and the announcement was welcomed by singing in the National Assembly. It would […]
Photo: Nigeria’s Ex-President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Participants at a symposium held recently in Lagos unanimously agreed that common sense has a limit in public leadership and should not be the sole requisite for public leadership consideration; a position that supports sound education as an indispensable ingredient for achieving a people-purposed leadership. The symposium […]
