(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Barely 24 hours after terrorists threatened to abduct President Muhammadu Buhari and Kaduna Governor Nasir el’Rufai in a viral video, troops of the Guards Brigade have been ambushed by armed bandits in Abuja. Three soldiers were wounded during the attack, which has thrown residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) into a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The former Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, has alleged that some delegates were induced with money to vote at the APC presidential primary in June. Mr Amaechi made the allegation at an event to mark the 60th birthday of Eugene Ogu, the general overseer of Abundant Life Evangel Mission in Port […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zenith Bank Plc has been ranked as the Number One Bank in Nigeria by Tier-1 Capital in the 2022 Top 1000 World Banks Ranking published by The Banker Magazine. For the thirteenth consecutive year, the Bank retained its position as the number one Tier-1 bank in Nigeria with a Tier-1 Capital of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, says that the Federal Government is returning tolling to the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway when the rehabilitation of the highway is completed. In an interview on Channels Television’s ‘Sunday Politics’, Fashola stated that three toll plazas were expected on the highway. While projecting the completion of the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A terrorist group in the North West has threatened to abduct President Muhammadu Buhari. The terrorists made their threat in a fresh video where they were seen flogging some of their captives. This threat is coming just a few weeks after the convoy of President Buhari was attacked in Katsina State. In […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, has stated that his counterpart from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar is a liar as he lied concerning his comment on Muslim-Muslim ticket. According to Tinubu, Atiku asked him to be his running mate in 2007 but he refused. It could […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The General Overseer of Citadel Global Community Church, formerly known as Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has refuted claims that he has endorsed the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu. Pastor Bakare also refuted the reports that he criticized the Christian Association of Nigeria for speaking up against […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Deputy leader of Song Local Government Legislative Council of Adamawa State, Hon Ishaya Bakano, has been killed. A gang of men of the underworld got at the local council lawmaker in the early hours of Saturday and gunned him down. Ishaya, who was representing Gudu Mboi Ward, was whisked from his […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Customs Area Controller in charge of the TinCan Island Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, Comptroller Adekunle Oloyode, has said that four clearing agents forged his signature to clear imported cars. Oloyode, who said this while briefing journalists on the half-year report of the command, said that the agents wanted to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) on Friday stated that bishops that attended the unveiling of Bola Tinubu’s running mate, Kashim Shettima are not fake. MURIC Director, Professor Ishaq Akintola made this known in a statement on Friday as he reacted to the dissociation by the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN). Akintola stated […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Justice Adeyemi Ajayi of a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory on Friday remanded a former Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, and two others in the custody of the Nigerian Correctional Service, Kuje. Justice Ajayi ordered that Idris and his co-defendants be kept in Kuje Correctional pending the hearing of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The presidential flag bearer of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, has come under criticism on social media after he stated that over 90% of the people in the north are not on social media. Abubakar made this revelation while speaking on Arise TV on Friday where he was asked about […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ahead of the nationwide protest being planned by the Nigeria Labour Congress NLC and Trade Union Congress TUC, in solidarity with the striking University lecturers, the International Solidarity for Peace and Human Rights Initiative and Coalition of Civil Society, Workers and Human Rights Defenders have expressed their total support for the action. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has tasked the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to call off its six-month-old strike. Adamu Adamu, the Minister of Education, enjoined ASUU to call off the strike and take dialogue. Speaking at the 2022 police meeting on admissions to tertiary institutions in Nigeria held in Abuja, the minister […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government is considering restriction on the use and distribution of motorcycles as well as mining activities in the country as part of the measures to tackle insecurity in the country. This was disclosed on Thursday by the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation,, Abubakar Malami, while briefing […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has said it will make provision for subsidy in 2023 to the tune of N6.72 trillion. Minister of Finance Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed made this disclosure in Abuja on Thursday during the 2023 – 2025 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategic Paper (MTEF and FSP) […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has stated the clerics at the unveiling of his running mate Senator Kashim Shettima were not fake. He said they were at the event, which was open to all, as genuine well-wishers. The former Lagos Governor, in a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The appearance of many unidentified clerics in the unveiling of Ibrahim Shettima as the running mate of Bola Tinubu has set the internet ablaze. African Examiner recalls that many Christians are against the Muslim-Muslim ticket of the ruling All Progressive Congress. To them, it is a sign of marginalization and as a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Christian Association of Nigeria on Wednesday dissociated itself from Bishops who attended the unveiling of the vice presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Kashim Shettima, saying they were desperados who went there for themselves. The organisation said that although the presidential candidate of the APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, was free […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The family of the acclaimed winner of June 12, 1993, presidential election, Moshood Kahimawo Olawale (MKO) Abiola, has stated that their father was never connected with narcotics as insinuated by investigative journalist, David Hundeyin. African Examiner recalls that Hundeyin had authored an article titled: “Bola Ahmed Tinubu: From Drug Lord To Presidential […]
