Posted by Nwa Diokpa
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, South Africa, Southern Africa
Friday, April 19th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At least eight South African-based Nigerians have been arrested after they allegedly attacking police officers in a drug raid. The South African Police, in a statement on Friday uploaded on its X handle, stated that the suspects were arrested in the Northern Cape province. According to the statement, the suspects also destroyed […]
Posted by African Examiner
Entertainment, Entertainment News, Featured, Latest Headlines
Friday, April 19th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Controversial Nollywood actress, Etinosa Idemudia, has stated that abortion is not evil and it is “better than long life suffering”. Etinosa took to her X account on Friday to make a case for abortion as she enjoined more women to embrace it. She writes: “With all the hungry innocent children who are […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Friday, April 19th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The founder of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Dr Boniface Aniebonam, says the move by Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso and the Kwankwasaya Movement to hijack the party structure is a betrayal of trust. Speaking at a news conference in Lagos on Friday, Aniebonam said he gave Kwankwaso the platform of the party […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Friday, April 19th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is projected to rise from 3.4 per cent in 2023 to 3.8 per cent in 2024. Abebe Selassie, Director, African Department, IMF, said this at a news briefing on the IMF’s Regional Economic Outlook for SSA titled “A Tepid and […]
Posted by African Examiner
Entertainment News, Featured, Latest Headlines
Friday, April 19th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu State Government, says it is working with the families of the late Nollywood actors, John Okafor, a.k.a Mr Ibu, and Obumneme Odonwodo, a.k.a Junior Pope, to give them a befitting burial. The Enugu State Commissioner for Information and Communication, Mr Aka Eze Aka, disclosed this in an interview with the […]
Posted by African Examiner
Articles/Opinion, Featured, Latest Headlines, Sports News
Friday, April 19th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – On April 14, 2024, Bayer 04 Leverkusen defeated Werder Bremen 5-0 to win Germany’s elite football competition, the Bundesliga, for the first time in their 115-year existence. The victory means the side, founded in 1904 by employees of the German pharmaceutical company Bayer AG, are crowned champions of Germany’s premier football league […]
Posted by African Examiner
Articles/Opinion, Featured, Latest Headlines
Friday, April 19th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Recently, the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) said that it would launch three new national identity cards for 104 million Nigerians nationwide. According to NIMC, the three new cards are a bank-enabled National ID card, a social intervention card, and an optional ECOWAS National Biometric Identity Card. A national newspaper quoted Mr […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, West Africa
Friday, April 19th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The ECOWAS Court is organising a training programme for lawyers and law students from Sierra Leone during its May 13-16 international conference, the court’s spokesman, Mr Felicien Hounkanrin, said on Friday. Hounkanrin, in a statement, said the President of the Court, Justice Edward Asante, made this known at a meeting with the […]
Posted by African Examiner
Business News, Featured, Latest Headlines
Friday, April 19th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Kaduna State Sector Command, said it has arrested a BUA Company driver who crushed six persons to death and 30 others injured on Kano-Zaria road . The Sector Commander, Mr Kabir Nadabo, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN),on Friday in Kaduna. Nadabo […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Friday, April 19th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Volvo truck (unregistered) carrying loads of food items overturned in the Ojota area of Lagos on Friday, leaving its occupants with serious injuries. The Director, Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department of Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), Mr Adebayo Taofiq, made this known in a statement on Friday in Ikeja. He […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Thursday, April 18th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Bode George says the party is working on reconciling its members including a former governor of Rivers State Nyesom Wike. Wike, now the minister of the FCT under the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), fell out with the PDP hierarchy in the lead-up to […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Thursday, April 18th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The current acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Umar Damagum, will continue in that capacity until another National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting that will hold after the one slated for today, Thursday April 18, 2024. This formed part of the resolution of the PDP caucus meeting on Wednesday night. […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Thursday, April 18th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Congress (APC) has dragged Justice Usman Na’abba of the Kano State High Court before the National Judicial Council (NJC) for granting an ex parte order restraining the party’s National Chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje, from further parading himself as the party’s leader. The restraining order by the judge followed Monday’s suspension […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Thursday, April 18th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), is partnering the United Nations Children’s fund (UNICEF), in bridging the age long gap in the nation’s social policy formation and implementation. To this end, the University, with support from UNICEF, Wednesday formally launched the Institute for Social policy at the Nsukka permanent site of the ivory […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, Sports News, Uncategorized
Thursday, April 18th, 2024
Bayern Munich defeated Arsenal 1-0 to put an end to the gunners Champions League campaign as Real Madrid edged out English giant Man City football club in a penalty shootout. Bayern’s Joshua Kimmich was the unlikely scorer as he thundered a header past Arsenal goalie David Raya. It was the only goal of the second […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, South Africa, Southern Africa
Wednesday, April 17th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The European Union (EU) said it has approved 116.9 million U.S. dollars for stabilisation efforts in Somalia. The funds approved by the Political and Security Committee of the Council of the EU on Tuesday will support the transition process for the Somali National Army (SNA). The EU said that the Council of […]
Posted by African Examiner
Business News, Featured, Latest Headlines
Wednesday, April 17th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A coalition of foreign and Nigeria based agro companies led by Shine Bridge Incorporated has indicated interest to partner with the Federal Government on large scale commercial cassava processing and food manufacturing. Shine Bridge is a U.S.-based agricultural policy think-tank and food technology transfer company. Dr Tony Bello, Chairman, Shine Bridge, spoke […]
Posted by Ganiyu Nasirudeen
East/Central Africa, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, South Africa
Wednesday, April 17th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kenyan President William Ruto, on Wednesday inaugurated a five-year road safety action plan as the country sought to curb the rising number of fatalities and injuries on its roads. The strategy aims to reduce the annual road accidents in the east African nation by over 50 per cent, Ruto said as he […]
Posted by Ganiyu Nasirudeen
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Wednesday, April 17th, 2024
…Insists Those Involved Not APC Members (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Prof. Abdulkarim Kana, the National Legal Adviser of the APC, says the party has not received the order of the Kano State High Court suspending Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, the National Chairman, by his ward executives. Kana said this when he spoke with newsmen at the party’s […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Wednesday, April 17th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police in Lagos State have recovered a day-old baby abandoned on Alhaji Masha Road, Surulere, on Monday, police spokesman, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, said on Wednesday. He told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that a social worker attached to a hospital in Surulere area reported the recovery of the baby to the […]
