(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The demand for camel milk has gone up in Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda in the past year, amid a quest to boost immunity against COVID-19, Industry leaders said on Tuesday, as World Milk Day was observed. Bashir Warsame, founder of the Nairobi-based camel milk and camel yoghurt producer, Nuug Camel Milk, said […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zambia has approved five COVID-19 vaccines to be administered on citizens as a preventive measure against the pandemic, a government official said on Tuesday. The vaccines include China’s Sinopharm, Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca Covishield, AZD 12225-Korea AstraZeneca, and Pfizer Biotech. Kennedy Malama, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health in charge of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Comptroller-General, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Mr Muhammad Babandede, has extended the commencement of the new Passport regime earlier scheduled for June 1 by one week. Spokesperson for the agency, Mr Amos Okpu, made this known in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday. The service had announced the suspension of receiving and […]
…Heirs Insurance, Heirs Life To Offer Reliable Insurance To Nigerians (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Heirs Holdings (HH) announced the Group’s transformative insurance industry play, with the launch of Heirs Insurance Limited (HIL) and Heirs Life Assurance (HLA), on Tuesday, June 1, 2021, at the companies’ Victoria Island headquarters in Lagos. Heirs Holdings will bring a dynamic, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has urged northerners to suspend plans of travelling to the south-east. In a statement issued on Monday, by Mr Audu Ogbe, chairman of the forum, stated that the travel advisory became necessary following the killing of Ahmed Gulak, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Gulak, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu has written the Senate seeking its confirmation of Maj.-Gen. Farouk Yahaya as Chief of Army Staff (COAS). Buhari’s request is contained in a letter to the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan and read during Tuesday’s plenary. The letter reads: I hereby forward for confirmation by the Senate, the appointment […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ugandan Minister of Works and Transport, Gen. Katumba Wamal, on Tuesday survived an assassination attempt, the local broadcaster NBS News has reported. The news outlet however said that Wamal lost his daughter and driver in the failed assassination attempt. According to the news outlet, Wamala’s car was shot in a suburb […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police in Ebonyi arrested six suspected members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and recovered five locally made pistols with 12 live ammunition from them. Police spokesperson in the state, DSP Loveth Odah, said this in a statement on Tuesday. Odah said the suspects were arrested during operations on […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Registrar/Chief Executive of the National Examinations Council (NECO), Prof. Godswill Obioma, is dead. Obioma died in his house on London Street, Dutsen Kura area of Minna, Niger, on Monday evening after a brief illness, this is contrary to many news reports that say the late registrar was killed by gunmen. A […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has pledged to pay over 7000 students bursary, as parts of activities to mark his 100 days in office. The Secretary to the State Government, (SSG), Princess Oladunni Odu, said this at a news conference to reel out programmes marking the 100 days Akeredolu in office […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has revealed that it is currently considering equity participation in a number of private refineries in the country in line with a Federal Government policy directive which stipulates the mandatory participation of the Corporation in any privately-owned refinery that exceeds 50,000 barrels per day capacity in keeping […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma, has bemoaned the way former Political Adviser to Ex- President Goodluck Jonathan, Alhaji Ahmed Gulak, was assassinated, saying he did not deserve to die that way. Gulak, was brutally murdered on Sunday morning while on his way to the Sam Mbakwe Cargo airport by those the police […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Abubakar Bello, governor of Niger state, has reportedly travelled abroad amid perennial insecurity and fresh kidnap of schoolchildren of Salihu Tanko Islamic School in Rafi Local government of the state. The African Examiner reports that bandits had invaded the school on Sunday evening. According to reports, the bandits arrived in their numbers […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zambia’s food reserve agency on Monday assured that the country was food secure and would remain so in the foreseeable future. Kelvin Hambwezya, Food Reserve Agency (FRA) Chairperson, said the 3.6 million tons of maize produced in the 2020/2021 season and the 840,000-carryover stock from the previous season meant that the country […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An ethnic group in Namibia has rejected the agreement proposed by Germany to recognise the crimes of the German colonial power more than 100 years ago in what is now Namibia as genocide. The group, called association of chiefs of the Herero and Nama ethnic groups, demanded that the planned signing ceremony […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidency says the N200 billion facility earmarked for the Federal Government’s Social Housing Scheme was ready to commence disbursement for the project. Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, in Abuja. The presidential aide […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum (SMBLF) has stated that the only way to avert the death of Nigeria is to restructure. The forum on Sunday enjoined President Muhammadu Buhari to address Nigerians on the numerous challenges facing the country. Edwin Clark, national leader of the SMBLF, disclosed this at a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A member representing Nasarawa central, Ismail Danbaba, in the state house of assembly, has been abducted by suspected gunmen. According to news reports, Danbaba was kidnapped on Saturday evening along Akwanga/Jos road close to the forest in Sanga LGA of Kaduna state. Dangba was said to have been on his way to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The sixty two out of the sixty-three newly promoted Senior officers of the Enugu State Command of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) have been decorated with their new ranks. Speaking weekend during the colorful ceremony held at the Conference Hall of the Federal Secretariat Complex, Independence Lay Out, Enugu, the State Comptroller […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police in Imo State, Sunday night, announced that it has captured and neutralized the armed men responsible for the killing of Ahmed Gulak, a former political Adviser to Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan. Gulak, a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) was gruesomely murdered in a cold blood by unknown gunmen in the […]
