(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No fewer than 34 people who were taking refuge at a primary school at Mgban in Nyiev council ward in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State have been killed by suspected herders. The incident happened between 9 and 10 pm Friday night. This is coming barely two days after the gruesome […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Labour Party state chairmen say they did not sack Julius Abure as Chairman of the party, insisting that he (Abure) remains the recognised National Chairman of Labour Party (LP). The state chairmen of the party in Abuja took back the party secretariat which was alleged to have been taken over by thugs […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Cameroonian foreign minister, Lejeune Mbella, on Friday said that all applications for entry visas to Cameroon will be done online as from April 30. According to the minister, applications would be carried out “exclusively” through a dedicated website, www.evisacam.cm, after which an online visa authorization will be issued to the applicant. The […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – World food prices declined for the 12th consecutive month in March, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) reported on Friday. It said that it was the first time the index had fallen for a full year. FAO’s broad Food Price Index slipped to 2.1 per cent in March, and it […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta said he was undeterred by the club’s poor record at Anfield, targeting a win against Liverpool on Sunday that would keep them on course to win the Premier League title. Arteta’s men lead Manchester City by eight points at the top of the table ahead of the weekend […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The 2023 Labour Party candidate for the just-ended gubernatorial election in Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, stated that what happened in the state was a war, not an election. Speaking on Arise Television’s morning show on Friday, Rhodes-Vivour also disclosed that the responsibility of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) must improve in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chief Spokesperson for the Bola Tinubu Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), Festus Keyamo (SAN), Festus Keyamo has slammed popular novelist, Chimamanda Adichie, concerning her letter to President Joe Biden of the United States regarding the Nigerian presidential election conducted on February 25.Keyamo, in an article, described Adichie’s letter as “petty” accusing the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has opened up to criticism directed at him by Obidients, supporters of Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, after he expressed displeasure at a statement made by the vice-presidential candidate of the party, Datti Baba-Ahmed. In a statement titled “Fascism On Course”, Soyinka stated […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A human rights Organization, under the banner of Civil Rights Realization and Advancement Network (CRRAN); has petitioned the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) and Commissioner of police over alleged illegal disconnection of electricity supply to some residents of Enugu. President of the body, Olu Omotayo (Esq) equally accused EEDC of illegally demanding […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says the Federal Government is yet to address most of the issues for the union’s recent strike. ASUU had late last year called off an eight-month strike after a series of negotiations with the Federal Government. Part of the lecturers’ demands is the release of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has stated that Rivers State “made the right choice” by voting for Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the just concluded presidential election. The African Examiner writes that Tinubu won Rivers, a People’s Democratic Party (PDP) state, because of the face-off between Nyesom […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, is sad concerning the state of the country as he stated that Nigeria is currently more divided and corroded than what leaders of thought had in mind. Obasanjo who was a guest of honour at a public lecture series tagged, “From Elections to Governance and Performance” […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Mr. Ugochukwu Agballa led crisis ridden- All progressive Congress APC in Enugu State, has announced the suspension of former president of the Senate, Chief Ken Nnamani, Minister of Foreign Affairs Geoffery Onyeama, Ex- Governor of the State, Barrister Sullivan Chime, Voice of Nigeria VON, Mr. Osita Okechukwu and others over […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has stated that the audio call featuring him and David Oyedepo, the founder of Winners Chapel, is fake. Obi made this known on Wednesday in a post on his official Twitter handle saying that “at no time did he ever say, think, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu State Media Director of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Independent Campaign Council (ICC), Chief Flavour Eze has disclosed that they have uncovered plans by the Embattled Chairman of the party in the state, Mr. Ugochukwu Agballah to suspend major leaders of the party in the state Eze gave names of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said it has arrested 352 suspects and seized 2.1 tonnes of illicit drugs in Kano State. The NDLEA Commander in the state, Mr Abubakar Idris-Ahmad, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano on Thursday. Idris-Ahmad said that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, has come under severe criticism on social media after he shared his views on the statements made by the Vice presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Datti Baba-Ahmed concerning the swearing-in of President-Elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Soyinka, speaking in an interview with ARISE NEWS on Wednesday, frowned […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Benue State Governor-elect, Hyacinth Alia on Wednesday said the civil service in the state was near collapse, stressing that his administration would restore life to the system and make it productive again. According to him, the civil service was in such situation as being in Intensive Care Unit and needed urgent attention […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has secured $800 million from the World Bank to provide post-petroleum subsidy palliatives for over 50 million Nigerians ahead of June 2023. Addressing State House Corespondents after the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting on Wednesday at the Presidential Villa, Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Alhaji Bayo Titilola-Sodo, the Special Adviser to Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State on Labour Matters, says the governor’s second term would be better than the first term. Titilola-Sodo gave the assurance on Wednesday while hosting members of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Oyo State Council, to Iftar (fast breaking) at […]
