(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Veteran actress, Sidikat Odukanwi, popularly known as Iyabo Oko is dead. She died Wednesday evening. Actress Foluke Daramola-Salako confirmed her death. She wrote on her Instagram page: “and finally we lost her.. rip Iyabo Oko, we did our best but God knows best” Also Sidikat’s daughter Bisi Aisha, a female soldier, confirmed […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Leader Of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, on Wednesday, reacted to the rumored presidential ambition of the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo. Primate Ayodele in a prophetic message stated that Osinbajo should not mismanage his money because he will encounter crisis, scandals and several documents will be used to bring […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has stated that he won’t agree to state police in the country. This development is coming amid calls for state policing to solve the issue of insecurity in the country as the present policing system is under the federal government. Speaking in an interview with Channels TV, the President […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Senior Advocate of Nigeria and founder, Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, Aare Afe Babalola, stated that, Nigeria would collapse if the upcoming 2023 general elections is conducted with the present 1999 Constitution. Babalola disclosed that to prevent the collapse of the country because of the inherent challenges created by the constitution, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Armed thugs have invaded the office of Thunder Blowers Online, an online newspaper and TV station in Gusau, the state capital of Zamfara. African Examiner learnt that the attackers stormed the offices Monday night, injured a Multimedia editor, Mansur Rabiu, and destroyed some working tools. In a statement signed by Zaharadeen Zarumi, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Imo State Government has stated that former Governor, Rochas Okorocha and Uche Nwosu are the sponsors of bandits and kidnapping in the state. This was announced in a statement issued to the press on Tuesday by Oguwike Nwachuku, Governor Hope Uzodinma’s Chief Press Secretary, saying that the duo were funding violence in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Ibadan-based lawyer, Chief Michael Lana, has advised Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, not to rush the installation of a new Olubadan of Ibadanland in view of the existence of a suit involving Sen. Lekan Balogun, next in line to the stool and the state government. Lana, in a letter addressed […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Indigenous People of Biafra has banned the slaughtering of Fulani cows and the recitation of the Nigerian national anthem in Biafraland -South-East. This was contained in a New Year message by IPOB director of state, Chika Edoziem. Instead, Edoziem said only the Biafran national anthem should be taught in schools. The […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ejike Mbaka, spiritual director of Adoration Ministry Enugu Nigeria (AMEN), has claimed that there was a plot to kill him after he was summoned by the Catholic Diocese of Enugu in May 2021. Mbaka stated this when he addressed worshippers at the Adoration ground in Enugu on Saturday. African Examiner recalls that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The former Presidential candidate of the defunct National Republican Convention, NRC in the June 12, 1993 election, Bashir Othman Tofa is dead. A source close to the family confirmed that the Elder Statesman died in the early hours of Monday after a protracted illness. Tofa contested alongside his opponent, Social Democratic Party, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry Enugu, Nigeria (AMEN), Ejike Mbaka, has raised the alarm over another invitation by the Department of State Services (DSS). The DSS had in June last year visited the adoration ground to deliver the letter of invitation to the Catholic priest, but missed him. Though, details of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Olubadan of Ibadan land, Oba Saliu Adetunji, has passed away. He was 93 years old. His death was confirmed by palace sources who pleaded anonymity on Sunday. However, when contacted, the monarch’s aides neither confirmed his death nor denied it. “Even if he is dead, it is the governor that will […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, says God has not told him who will become Nigeria’s President in 2023. The respected cleric said this on Saturday during the 2022 Crossover Service of the church held at the RCCG International Headquarters along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Adeboye, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Buhari has stated that his administration is committed to protecting Nigerians by addressing insecurity. President Buhari disclosed this during his new year message to Nigerians on Friday saying that the gains on the battlefield are just an aspect of sustainable victory as his government is aware that there is a need […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission has said it is unable to remove the names of dead persons from the voter register due to the absence of reliable data of births and deaths to rely on in expunging the names of such persons. This implies that Nigeria may go into the 2023 general […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The federal government has shifted the date for the end of the linkage of the National Identification Number, NIN, to Subscriber Identity Module, SIM. Isa Pantami, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, stated that the deadline was extended by three months. By this, the new deadline is now March 31, 2022. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Yoruba Nation campaigner, Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, says he is not at war with the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.); the six governors in the South-West zone or any government official. He, however, stressed that it was saddening that the Buhari regime has not addressed the security challenges […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Matthew Kukah, has reiterated that he remains unapologetic to those who perceived him to be an ardent critic of the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). Kukah said this while speaking with journalists in Sokoto. He said, “All what I have been clamouring for […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has tasked President Muhammadu Buhari to return Nigeria to the situation it was during the time of former President, Goodluck Jonathan. Alhaji Ismail Musa, CNG’s Director of Strategic Communications, disclosed this when he featured on Vanguard Live on Wednesday as he lamented over the spate of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, has alleged that the incumbent governor, Hope Uzodinma, is sponsoring unknown gunmen carrying out the killings in the state. He also alleged that the controversial arrest of his son-in-law, Uche Nwosu, by the police during a church service on Sunday, was actually an assassination attempt […]
