Veteran Nigerian singer, songwriter and actress, Ms Onyeka Onwenu is dead. According to reports the iconic singer Tuesday night after performing at an event at Banana Island, Lagos. She was 72. Onwenu was said to have slumped after performing at the birthday ceremony of Stella Okoli, owner of Emzor Pharmaceuticals. She was later confirmed dead […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has approved a monthly stipend of N50,000 for 10,000 Niger Delta youths to mitigate current hardship in the country. President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, announced this during the Niger Delta Sensitisation Conference for ethnic nationalities and youths and women in Port Harcourt on Tuesday. He said the payment […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Politician and activist, Deji Adeyanju, has called on the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, to take away soldiers deployed across the Federal Capital Territory and other cities ahead of the planned hunger protest. It could be recalled that there have been increased presence of security agents, including military personnel, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Valedictory Court Session for the retiring Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola (GCON), will be held on Thursday, 22nd August 2024, a spokesman for the apex court said. Festus Akande also said the Supreme Court’s 2023/2024 legal year ended on Friday, 19th July 2024, He said the court proceeded on […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, has directed police top brass to protect intending participants of the planned #EndBadGovernance protest slated for August 1 to 10, 2024. This was contained in a letter by the IGP to the request of human rights lawyer Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa. Adegboruwa, a Senior Advocate of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – On Monday, thousands of MTN users were in the MTN’s company in Idi-Ape office in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State, to protest the sudden blockage of their Subscriber Identification Modules. The situation escalated after the telecom company blocked users’ phone numbers because of the NIN-SIM linkage issues without giving prior warning. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Kingsley Moghalu, has opened up on why African countries can’t create prosperity. Moghalu, in a statement on his X handle on Monday stated that Nigeria and other African countries do have a bad governance capacity, which includes their foundational philosophical worldview, their […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As the suspension of Chairman of the Enugu state Chapter of the All progressives Congress APC, Chief Ugochukwu Agballa, by the State Executive Committee continues to generate reactions, the Pioneer Deputy State Chairman, Comrade Adolphus Ude, has applauded the decision, saying founding members and Stakeholders of the party in the state have […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday threatened to relaunch production of intermediate-range nuclear weapons if the United States confirmed its intention to deploy missiles to Germany or elsewhere in Europe. “If the United States carries out such plans, we will consider ourselves liberated from the unilateral moratorium previously adopted on the deployment […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – One of the arrowheads of the planned #EndBadGovernance protest against economic hardship slated for August says the Eagle Square in Abuja is a public property and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Nyesom Wike has no choice than to allow “hungry Nigerian youths” demonstrate their displeasure on the facility. The […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Wives and kinsmen of five natives of Amagu Agbada Nenwe Community in Aninri Council area of Enugu state, arrested by the police in 2023, have staged a peaceful protest over the development, insisting that they are innocent on the murder allegation leveled against them, calling on governor Peter Mbah and the federal […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has sent his best wishes to Team Nigeria at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. Spokesman to the President, Chief Ajuri Ngelale stated this in a statement issued on Friday. A total of 88 Team Nigeria athletes, including 63 women and 25 men, are proudly flying Nigeria’s flag in 12 […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Senator Ifeanyi Ubah representing Anambra South Senatorial District in the Senate, is dead. The business turned politician died at the age of 52 years in London. Ubah, who joined the All Progressives Congress (APC) last year was billed to seek the party’s ticket ahead of the Anambra State governorship election. Ubah, born […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Thursday, revealed that his mother carried his pregnancy for 12 months before his birth by Mrs Benice Obasanjo The former president attributed the delay in his birth to the influence of some witches and wizards who gave his mother a tough time before God’s intervention. According to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Controversial Nigerian singer, Habeeb Okikiola Badmus, better known as Portable has stated that there is no need for Nigerians to protest as the economy of the country is okay. It could be recalled that various bodies have planned to organise a protest between August 1 and 10, 2024 because of the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), said that it has no plans to join the nationwide protest scheduled for August 1 against economic hardship in the country. Festus Osifo, TUC President said this at a news conference on State of the Nation on Thursday in Abuja. Osifo said that the TUC […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has allayed fears of manipulation by any interest group in the ongoing economic reforms, saying his campaign was self-sponsored, without strings, or indebtedness to any individual or institution. The President, who received a delegation of Islamic leaders led by Sheikh Bala Lau, at the Presidential Villa on Thursday, said […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has said the nation’s economy is on a gradual but steady path of recovery and assured citizens that his administration would do more to meet their needs. In a meeting with traditional rulers led by the Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, and the Ooni of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Canada has sent home their women’s Olympic football coach, Bev Priestman, following allegations of drones being used to spy on their opponents. Canada are the women’s Olympic champions from Tokyo 2020 and had already sent home two members of staff on Wednesday. That was after drones were used to spy on a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – ) France aims to wow the world on Friday with an extravagant Olympic Games opening ceremony through the heart of Paris. It is officially kicking off a Games fraught with security risks at a time of heightened geo-political tensions. Some 45,000 police personnel, 10,000 soldiers and 2,000 private security staff have been […]
