Photo: Popular Nollywood Actor Mr. John Okafor BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Popular hilarious Nollywood actor Mr. John Okafor has revealed that his sojourn into acting is accidental, as he originally aspired to become a professional boxer. Despite the fact that he has been progressing in it, Okafor, also called Mr. Ibu said the story of […]
Photo: Zimbabwe’s ex-President Robert Mugabe Akintokunbo A Adejumo (Akinadejum@aol.com) (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – “African leaders do not resign, that’s cowardice and the fact that UK Prime Minister-David Cameron has just resigned confirms everything I have said about him—he is weak and a coward.” President (now Ex) Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe in 2016. The recent confusion about what is […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Finally, the Zimbabwean Parliament recommended by the Zanu-PF party Monday has started impeachment proceedings against the embattled President Robert Mugabe. The motion for Mugabe’s impeachment was moved and seconded at parliament but the lawmakers have adjourned and moved to a hotel conference centre to debate the motion in a joint […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Since August, I have been the anchorperson of a programme on television called ThisDay Live where we discuss political matters – local and global. The programme is available on Arise News TV at 6pm, 9pm and sometimes at midnight every Sunday. Two days ago, we discussed the situation in Zimbabwe, the elections […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – After failing to comply with the Monday resignation deadline, members of Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF party are preparing to meet to discuss the possible impeachment of the embattled President Robert Mugabe, who has refused to resign from office. The deadline was set by Mr Mugabe’s own party, Zanu-PF. The embattled leader shocked Zimbabweans […]
By Jerome-Mario Utomi (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – When one is favoured with longevity, says my grandfather, he must in the same vein contend with one out of the these two inherent probables. If the individual is not met with a flood of blessings, chances are that such a fellow may be visited with torrents of afflictions […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has questioned the rationale behind the Federal Government’s hiring of consultants from Malaysia with the sum of N458 million to help Nigeria build her economic capacity, saying; “the federal government’s action is a clear vote of no confidence on President Muhammadu Buhari’s government and economic experts […]
Photo: Robert Mugabe (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Since Wednesday he and his wife have been put under house arrest due to Military takeover, Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe Friday made his first public appearance. Mugabe amidst the top government functionaries was seen attending a graduation ceremony in the capital, Harare. The military confirmed Friday it was “engaging” […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The internet search engine, Google has honoured late Nigerian literary icon, Chinua Achebe on its doodle. Achebe died in March, 2013 at the age of 82. The technology giant said on its website Thursday that it honoured Achebe on its doodle (on November 16) as it marks his 87th birthday. Agency reports […]
Photo: Governor Seriake Dickson (L) and Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan …It’s the Handiwork of Political Jobbers, says Bayelsa Governor (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday doused speculations about a political rift between him and Governor Henry Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State. The former President who disassociated himself from the insinuations made in the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A train crash in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed 33 people, UN radio station Okapi reports. It happened in Buyofwe in the province Lualaba, in the south of the country. Radio Okapi said that the train caught fire after crashing into a ravine. According to reports, it was carrying flammable […]
By Prof R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The song in Nigeria public places now is quite different from what they were singing at the onset of APC regime in 2015. The new song in the mouths of market women and their children sounds like, “We’d thought that APC would bring […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An official from the United Nations’ World Food Program has issued a warning about the situation in the southwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where conflict has left 3.2 million people severely hungry. In the past year, about 1.4 million residents of Congo’s Kasai region have been displaced by violence that […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Scientists who have been wondering for years over the genetic “peculiarity” of a tiny population of orangutans in Sumatra have finally concluded that they are a new species to science. The apes were only reported to exist after an expedition into the remote mountain forests in 1997. Since then, a […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Two white farmers in South Africa who forced a black man into a coffin have been convicted and sentenced to over 10 years in jail each. The convicted, Theo Martins Jackson and Willem Oosthuizen were first convicted in August for attempted murder and kidnapping. The two men accused Victor Mlotshwa […]
Photo: President Uhuru Kenyatta BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Amid tight security, voting is under way in Kenya in a re-run of the recent Presidential election. However, the exercise is being boycotted by the main opposition in line with its leader, Ralia Odinga. Contrary to Odinga who had vowed to disrupt the vote, by calling for […]
By Edwin Nwachukwu Lagos, Oct. 17, 2017 (NAN) The day was Saturday, October 14, 2017. I had just returned from a two and half hour routine physical exercise and trying to stretch from the aftermath of the exercise, I received the devastating news of the demise of a friend and former colleague, Mr Ewedapo Akintunde. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former football star George Weah and Vice-President Joseph Boakai are headed for a run-off in Liberia’s presidential election. Nearly all the results from Tuesday’s poll have been counted, the election commission says. Mr Weah, the first African to win the Ballon D’Or football award, is leading with 39%, while Mr Boakai is […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No fewer than 270 reportedly killed Saturday in massive bomb attack in a busy area of Mogadishu, the Somalian capital. Police confirmed that many were wounded when a lorry packed with explosives detonated near the entrance of a hotel. The attack was considered the deadliest terror attack in Somalia since […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Supreme Court of Appeal has ruled that embattled South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma must face charges of corruption, fraud, racketeering and money laundering. The court agreed with a lower court ruling last year that prosecutors could bring back 783 counts of corruption relating to a 1999 arms deal. The charges had […]
