(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Morocco aanounced on Wednesday that it had suspended all flights to and from Mali, Ghana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea, and Libya, to curb the spread of the new Coronavirus (COVID-19) variants. The Moroccan National Airport Office (ONDA) disclosed this in a statement posted on its website. It added that […]
…It’s Pure Vendetta, Says Ani (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Less than a week after the Enugu Capital Territory Development Authority, ECTDA, demolished a residential building belonging to the Chancellor of Coal City university, Mr. Chinedu Ani, the Agency has completely withdrawn the building approval it issued to the (latter) in 2016, for erection of his residence […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Disturbed by the sorry state of facilities in Nigeria’s health sector, a non governmental organization, Millennium Center For Training, and Leadership, with headquarters in Lagos, has identified lack of political will and mismanagement of resources by those in authorities as the key factors responsible for the mess in the sector. It noted […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has blasted the style of government of President Muhammadu Buhari saying the President is too slow and Nigerians cannot wait for him to fix the county at his own pace. Baba-Ahmed stated this on Wednesday when he appeared on Arise Television saying […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Standards Organisation of Nigeria, SON, has hinted that it destroyed substandard goods valued over eight hundred million Naira, N800,000,000.00, in Nigeria in the last five months. Director General/Chief Executive, of the organization, Mallam Farouk Salim, who disclosed this during the SON special day at the ongoing 32nd Enugu International Trade Fair, […]
By Christopher Adelabu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Frequently described as overstretched and underfunded, Nigeria’s military forces are fighting jihadists in the North-East and armed gangs in the North-West as well as dealing with communal conflicts in central regions, separatist tensions in the South-East and piracy in the nearby Gulf of Guinea. According to Ikemesit Effiong, head […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Republic of Congo’s veteran president, Denis Sassou Nguesso, has been re-elected with 88.57 percent of the vote, according to provisional results released Tuesday. Sassou Nguesso, 77, has been in power for an accumulated 36 years, first taking the helm of the central African state in 1979. His landslide first-round victory, announced […]
…Says Secession Not The Solution (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi, says those calling for secession are doing so because of frustration. Fayemi disclosed this on Tuesday when he appeared on Arise Television, saying that the agitation by some for the breakaway of the South-West region from Nigeria and the establishment […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The leadership of Ishi-Ozalla Autonomous Community Town Union in Nkanu West Council area of Enugu state, South East, Nigeria, has dismissed allegation of Ostracization of some people in the locality as claimed recently by some individuals. African Examiner reports that former Nigeria’s minister of information and National Orientation, Mr. Frank Nweke hails from […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari, has described the recently approved rehabilitation exercise of the 210,000 barrels per day capacity Port Harcourt Refinery as a worthy undertaking embarked upon after diligent consideration and in strict adherence to industry best standards. Speaking to reporters at […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has received and accepted the petition filed by the Mutual Union of Tiv in America; a petition earlier rejected by the deputy speaker. However, at a plenary session on Tuesday the speaker called on Hon Mark Gbillah, Gwer-East/Gwer-West Federal Constituency in Benue State […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Guy Brice Parfait Kolelas, leading opposition presidential candidate in Republic of Congo’s election, died on Sunday, a day after the country went to the polls. Kolelas was hospitalised on the eve of the elections and died of Covid-19 as he was being taken to France for treatment, his campaign director Christian Cyr […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump plans to launch his own social media platform in two to three months, one of his senior advisers told Fox News on Sunday. Trump was suspended from Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Jason Miller, a spokesman for […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Internet and social media access was short down in the Republic of Congo on Sunday as polls opened in a presidential election which veteran leader Denis Sassou Nguesso is expected to win The internet went down just after midnight, several hours before the opening of polling stations at 7:00 am (0600 GMT), […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police broke up demonstrations by opposition movements and civil society groups in Chad’s capital N’Djamena Saturday, three weeks ahead of a presidential vote expected to be won by 30-year incumbent Idriss Deby Itno. With large numbers of officers on the streets, few were able to answer calls to turn out from opposition […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Republic of Congo votes in presidential elections on Sunday with incumbent Denis Sassou Nguesso aiming to extend his decades-long hold on power in the Central African state. Sassou Nguesso has accumulated 36 years in office — he was most recently re-elected in 2016, after which the opposition was effectively sidelined and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tanzania’s Samia Suluhu Hassan was on Friday sworn in as the country’s first female president after the sudden death of John Magufuli from an illness shrouded in mystery. Hassan, 61, a soft-spoken Muslim woman from the island of Zanzibar, will finish Magufuli’s second five-year term, set to run until 2025. Wearing a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tanzania is set to swear in Samia Hassan Suluhu as president of the East African country who became the first female vice-president after President John Pombe Magufuli was elected in 2015. It reported the death of John Pombe Magufuli, who died of heart complications. Tanzanian constitution states that, “Where the office of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The news that President Muhammadu Buhari has named a road in the federal capital territory (FCT) after the president of Niger Republic, Issoufou Mahamadou, has sparked social media reactions. According to media reports, at a ceremony in Abuja on Tuesday, Mohammed Bello, FCT minister, stated that the expressway was named after the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Tanzanian government has announced the death of President John Magufuli. His death was confirmed by the Vice-President, Samia Suluhu Hassan, in a live television broadcast on Wednesday evening. According to Hassan, President Magufuli died of heart complications at a hospital in Dar es Salaam, former capital of Tanzania. He was 61 […]
