(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate the alleged missing 178,459 arms and ammunition in the Nigeria Police Force as contained in the 2019 report of the Auditor General for the Federation. This followed a motion of urgent Public importance moved by the Deputy Minority Leader, Rep. Toby Okechukwu. African Examiner […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – United States-bound passengers departing Nigeria are likely to face connection delays in Europe, Middle East and other major hubs’ airport as major airlines cancelled and rescheduled their flights to the United over 5G rollout in the US on Wednesday. Major international airlines announced suspension and modification of flights to the US amid […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has assured that the West African Examination Council (WAEC) fees of Nigerians will be paid if he emerges president in 2023. Tinubu disclosed this in a viral video with some party members in attendance. “Your children’s West African examination fees is […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the Giwa Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Alhaji Shehu Madaki, has berated Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, over his promise to pay the WAEC fees of all Nigerians if he emerged president. It could be recalled […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – House of Representatives, Wednesday approved direct and indirect primary clauses as a mode of electing candidates by political parties for general elections. This was originally the provision in the extant law, the Electoral Act of 2010 before the National Assembly in the course of tinkering with the Act expunged ‘indirect’ primary mode. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A High Court in Abia State has ordered the Federal Government to pay the sum of N1 billion to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, and issue a letter of apology to him. Kanu had approached the Court demanding N5 billion over the invasion of his father’s house […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, says the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has not directed any official in his regime to implement the removal of petroleum subsidy. Lawan disclosed this to State House correspondents on Tuesday after a meeting with the President at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja. According to him, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian award-winning singer, David Adeleke, aka Davido, has knocked down his cousin, Bamidele Adeleke, concerning his interest to run in the 2022 Osun State gubernatorial election. The singer took to his Twitter page on Tuesday as he uploaded a picture of his cousin, where his cousin posed with a provisional clearance certificate […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Armed men suspected to be members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Tuesday, stormed a Catholic church in the commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra State, South East, Nigeria, and disrupted ongoing Mass celebration. The gunmen, who invaded the church, queried the parish priest on why he was celebrating a mass […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Justice Mojisola Dada of an Ikeja Special Offences Court has granted a Dubai- based internet celebrity, Ismailia Mustapha, aka Mompha bail of N200 million with two sureties in the like sum. The court granted his application for bail filed through his lawyer, Gboyega Oyewole (SAN). Justice Dada ordered that one of two […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Congress has announced that its national convention will hold on February 26. This was stated by the Chairman, Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee and Governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni, on Tuesday. He was speaking at the Progressives Women Congress held in Abuja. Details later…
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has unveiled a 1.2 million -bag paddy rice pyramid, in Abuja. President Buhari commended the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, for Initiating the Anchor Borrowers Programme, through which the massive rice production was achieved. In his address at the event this morning, the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) -The planned re-arraignment of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafran (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu on an amended terrorism charge was stalled on Tuesday before a Federal High Court in Abuja. At the mention of the case, lead defence lawyer, Mike Ozekhome (SAN) sought for time to enable him study the amended […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The House of Representatives Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila has declared that the Green Chamber will reintroduce the Electoral Act amendment bill on Wednesday. He said the House has resolved to rework the bill and send back to the President as quickly as possible for assent. He also announced the first set of amendments […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has ordered prisons’ officers to shoot dead anybody who attempts to attack any prison in the country. The minister gave the order while inspecting the facility at the Agodi Custodial Centre in Ibadan. Aregbesola said any attack on any prison is an attack on the state and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The United States and the British Government have turned down a request by the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, to send representatives to observe the his trial holding at the Federal High Court, Abuja Division on January 18, 19, and 20. While the US said it was limiting […]
AFRICAN EXAMINER – President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has charged African leaders and citizens to be united in the promotion of the continent’s intrinsic greatness through improved trade relations amongst African countries. Speaking at the formal launch of the Pan-African Payment & Settlement System (PAPSS), which is a centralised payment and settlement infrastructure platform […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government on Monday, entered fresh terrorism allegations against the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu. FG, in the amended process it filed before the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, increased the counts in the initial charge it preferred against Kanu. The IPOB leader […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The alarming insecurity that has bedeviled the once peaceful Imo State, South- East Nigeria unabated, particularly Orlu area, worsened yesterday, as some unknown armed criminal elements struck at Ubudom Atta Community in the Njaba Local Council Area, beheading a native of the locality . The victim, a 65 year old man, identified […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi, has stated that defections by state governors into the All Progressive Congress cannot threaten his presidential ambition in the party. Umahi disclosed this on Monday in an interview on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme. He said, “I will feel happy rather than being threatened. My […]
