(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Medical Association has said the recent travel ban on Nigeria by the United Kingdom and Canada in the wake of the outbreak of the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 shows that many Nigerians are not taking vaccination against the disease seriously. The NMA said the situation would not only affect […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Renowned virologists on Friday told Saturday PUNCH that the change in weather was largely responsible for the surge in COVID-19 cases reported in the country. The virologists, who spoke in separate interviews with our correspondents, also urged Nigerians to engage the monitoring of trends as the country might gradually slip into the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Sultan of Sokoto Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar has lamented that terrorists kill people on a daily basis in the northern part of the country especially in the North West and the killings are mostly not reported. This is just as the Sultan called on Christians to disregard the recent threat by some […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gunmen have murdered the traditional ruler of Atta ancient kingdom in the Njaba Local Government Area of Imo State, Edwin Azike. His corpse was found at the market square in the community on Friday morning after he was abducted on Thursday. A community source, who craved anonymity said that four persons were […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government said that the administration of booster dose to persons fully vaccinated with either two doses of AstraZeneca, Moderna or Pfizer Bio-N-Tech or a single dose of Johnson & Johnson vaccine will begin today. The government described the booster dose as another opportunity to be further protected against COVID-19, calling […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former Interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Bisi Akande, said in his new book that he knew former President Olusegun Obasanjo to be a faithless suitor and an unblinking political philanderer. In his autobiography, ‘My Participations,’ which was presented in Lagos on Thursday, the former Governor of Osun State […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday claimed that former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s diabolically double-crossing Chief Bisi Akande, the All Progressives Congress, APC chieftain, cost him his second term aspiration. Buhari stated that Obasanjo’s diabolical acts stifled Akande’s governorship aspiration. President Buhari disclosed this at the public presentation of the autobiography of Akande, titled: […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has explained that expired vaccines has been withdrawn and will be destroyed accordingly by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC). This was due to the news circulating on social media handles that some vaccines donated to Nigeria by partners had long expired. In a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Suspected hoodlums have attacked and killed a pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in FESTAC Town, in the Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos State. Our correspondent gathered that the victim, Pastor Babatunde Dada, was killed inside the RCCG Chapel of Resurrection on 13 Road, 6th Avenue, FESTAC Town. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Saudi Arabia has barred all flights from Nigeria effectively dashing all hopes for those planning to attend the lesser hajj. Although the reason was not expressly stated, it said all non-citizens with history of travel to Nigeria would not be allowed into Saudi Arabia. This is according to a circular issued by […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lagos-based forex training and capital investment company, MBA Capital and Trading Limited,has declared Maxwell Odum, wanted over alleged fraud to the tune of N213bn. The anti-graft agency in a notice on Wednesday appealed to members of the public with details of the whereabouts of Odum to report to any of EFCC offices […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari will be visiting Lagos on Thursday, December 9, 2021. He will be attending the public presentation of ‘My Participations,’ the autobiography of Bisi Akande, a former interim national chairman of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC). According to Tunde Rahman, media aide of APC chieftain Bola Tinubu, the event […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Raymond Dokpesi, a chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, founder of DAAR Communications, has stated that the north should still produce Nigeria’s president in 2023. Dokpesi disclosed this during a media briefing saying that based on an arrangement and calculation by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the North would still produce Nigeria’s […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, ordered the Department of State Services (DSS) to pay the Convener, #RevolutionNow, Omoyele Sowore, the sum of N2 million over unlawful seizure of his mobile phone in 2019 at the point of his arrest. Justice Anwuli Chikere, in a judgment, also ordered the DSS to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There was rampage in Idogbo Secondary School, in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo State, as students of the school in a viral video , went haywire, setting a section of the school ablaze, equally vandalizing the principal’s office. They were said to have also harassed a policeman on duty in the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There was great outburst of emotions as some mothers protested on Wednesday at the gate of Dowen College, Lekki, Lagos where a 12 year old Sylvester Oromoni was allegedly beaten to death by some students of the school. In the video , monitored on BBC News Pidgin, the group also called on […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Anger reigned in the two chambers of Nigeria’s National Assembly as senators, and members of the House of Representatives, separately, condemned the United Kingdom’s inclusion of Nigeria in her COVID-19 red list without justification. This is even as governors of the 36 states of the federation expressed angst over the UK government’s […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There was confusion among power sector operators on Tuesday after the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), fired the management of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company as a result of the strike embarked upon by the AEDC workers the preceding day. Officials of the Federal Ministry of Power said the management of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) –No fewer than 15 students have lost their lives by a hit-and-run truck driver along Ogunusi Road, Grammar School bus stop, Lagos State. It was learnt that the pupils were going home after closing time and wanted to cross the road when the truck ran over them. The driver was reportedly chased to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The president of Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, AYCF, Yerima Shettima, has stated that 2023 is already too late for the Southeast to produce Nigeria’s president. Shettima stated that the Southeast should look beyond 2023 because the next two years might be too late to produce the country’s president. The Arewa youth leader […]
