(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate has urged the Federal Government to declare all suspected leaders of terrorists in the country wanted. This followed the adoption of a motion by Sen. Bala Ibn Na’Allah (APC-Kebbi) and co-sponsored by 12 other senators during plenary on Wednesday. The motion was entitled; “Urgent need to surmount all kinds of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Enugu State local government election held on Wednesday turned bloody as unknown armed men attacked some polling Centers, killing four persons and setting two vehicles ablaze at Akpugo in Nkanu West Council area. The hoodlums, who also invaded Obeagu ward 3 in Enugu South Council area, disrupted the exercise and chase voters […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Deputy Governor of Zamfara State, Mahdi Gusau, has been removed from office by lawmakers in the State House of Assembly on Wednesday. This followed the report of the committee set up by the Chief Judge of the State, Justice Kulu Aliyu, to probe the deputy governor. Those in the committee include […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Ministry of Finance Headquarters located in the Central Area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, is currently on fire. The details of the inferno as of the time of filing this report are sketchy. However, our correspondent learnt that firefighters had arrived at the scene to extinguish the fire. The […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Disturbed by the astronomical increase in airfares by Airline operators in the country, the Senate called on the Federal Government to, as a matter of urgency, declare a State of Emergency on the nation’s federal roads. The Senate has also urged the federal government to immediately make good its indebtedness to FERMA […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The former governor of Lagos State, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said media reports quoting him as saying he was “ready to get dirty” to achieve his presidential ambition were taken out of context. Mr Tinubu’s media aide, Tunde Rahman, in a statement on Monday, said his principal, while referring to some of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate will lay the report of the Committee on the review of the 1999 Constitution Wednesday and begin to vote on the recommendations on Tuesday next week. Disclosing this Tuesday, Deputy President of the Senate and Chairman, Senate Committee on the Alteration to the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, has postponed the meeting with the Academic Staff Union of Universities earlier slated for 1 p.m today, Tuesday, February 22, 2022, to 2pm. This was disclosed by the spokesperson of the ministry of labour and employment, Charles Akpan in Abuja. Though Akpan did […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court sitting in Jos on Tuesday sentenced a former Minister of Water Resources, Sarah Ochekpe, to three months imprisonment. Ochekpe, who served as Minister under former President Goodluck Jonathan, was sentenced alongside a former chairman of the People Democratic Party in Plateau state, Raymond Dabo, and the Plateau State […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Monday, called on the old generation of Nigerians to give way for the younger generation to build a prosperous nation. According to him, rather than compete, the old generation should collaborate with younger people and provide them with the requisite knowledge and experience to transform the country. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has stated that the People’ s Democratic Party, PDP, and All Progressives Congress, APC, have nothing different to offer Nigerians come 2023. Kwankwaso made this known when he featured on Nasara FM in Kano over the weekend saying that both the APC and PDP have nothing […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A pregnant woman and eight others were burnt to death, yesterday, when a commercial passenger bus rammed into a vehicle laden with petrol in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. Eight others were said to have survived the crash with multiple burnt injuries. It was gathered that the accident occurred at Ilorin International […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Reno Omokri, a former presidential aide has enjoined the Nigerian law enforcement agencies especially the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, and the Police to make sure that embattled DCP Abba Kyari is treated like a criminal. African Examiner recalls that Abba Kyari was earlier […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, has been declared the winner of the governorship primary of the All Progressives Congress held on Saturday. Announcing the result very early on Sunday, the Chairman of the governorship primary committee and Kwara State Governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, said Oyetola won the election, having garnered 222,169 votes, against […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said solving the problems bedeviling Nigeria would require ‘rebels’ who would speak truth to power. He spoke on Saturday in Abeokuta, Ogun State, while unveiling the autobiography of the Babanla Adinni of Egbaland, Tayo Sowunmi, titled “Footprints Of A Rebel.” Mr Obasanjo added that having more rebels […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Interior Minister, Rauf Aregbesola, was absent at his Ifofin Ward 8, Ilesa East Local Government, even though primary election was held in the area and Governor Gboyega Oyetola was declared the winner. Oyetola won by 309 votes against 146 recorded for Moshood Adeoti, the candidate supported by Aregbesola. Speaking with our correspondent, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari has stated that former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, and his successors who emerged under the People’s Democratic Party platform built the Second Niger bridge with their mouths for sixteen years. Adesina, disclosed this in an article he shared on his Facebook page saying that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The House of Representatives has suspended action on a bill seeking to establish a federal medical centre, fmc in Deba instead of Billiri in Gombe state, insisting that the senate concur with earlier version of the Bill. Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila while affirming the decision of the House […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has distanced its operatives from the 25kg cocaine deal involving a gang of police officers headed by a suspended deputy police commissioner, Abba Kyari. NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, in a statement, on Wednesday, faulted the claim that the agency’s officers at the Enugu airport were […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, the Minister of Interior, has vowed to work against the reelection of his successor, Gboyega Oyetola. Aregbesola said this at a political gathering in Ikire, Irewole Local Government Area of the state. He said that the forthcoming All Progressives Congress (APC) primary on Saturday would determine Oyetola’s fate in […]
