(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate has confirmed the appointment of the nominees for the Secretary and Board members of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission submitted by the President Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). One of them was Alhaji Yahaya Muhammad who was said to have started his primary school before he was born. The […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UN World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) says the number and duration of droughts also increased by 29 per cent over the past two decades in Africa as floods and droughts contribute to global water crisis. WMO and partners in a report published on Tuesday said improved water management, monitoring and forecasting were needed […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi led government has suspended the traditional ruler of Amechi Awkunanaw autonomous community in Enugu South Council Government Area of the State, Igwe Anthony Ogbodo Okorie, over what it described as persistent crisis pervading the community. African Examiner reports that certificate of recognition earlier issued to the Monarch by […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Everywhere is filled with palpable fear in Abakaliki and environs, as armed thugs alleged to be working for Ebonyi State government, led by the State commissioner for Capital Territory, Mr. Onyekachi Nwebonyi, forced themselves into private premises of mass transport operators in the state capital, sealing them up, after smashing glasses of […]
…..Agreed To collaborate With Security Agencies To Stop Killings in The Zone (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governors and leaders of the Southeast geo-political zone of Nigeria,on Tuesday day condemned in strong terms the every Monday sit at home order by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB, as well as the ongoing killings in the region. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says that the November 6 Anambra election must go on irrespective of threats from the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB to halt the exercise. African Examiner writes that the secessionist group had vowed that the election would not hold because of the refusal of the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe, has stated that there are more than 30 separatist organisations in the South-East aside from the Indigenous People of Biafra, the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra. He said this on Tuesday when he appeared on Channels Television Sunrise Daily. Abaribe, who […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe, has stated that the All Progressives Congress (APC) cannot produce an Igbo President in 2023. Abaribe stated this when he appeared on Channels Television on Tuesday saying that only the People’s Democratic Party can produce an Igbo President in the next election. He said: “The man […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Four persons were feared killed and another seriously injured when an ancient majestic “Odan’’ tree fell to heavy windstorm in Saabo area of Oyo town. Our correspondent reports that the ancient tree provided shelter for butchers, mini buses and commercial motorcycle operators with its far-spreading branches at a popular foodstuffs market in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has said that the accusation in certain quarters that it treats bandits with kid-gloves is fake news and misinformation. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, stated this on Nigeria Television Authority programme, “Good Morning Nigeria’’. Speaking on the renewed attack against bandits on the programme , the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chief Medical Director of the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, UNTH, ituku Ozalla, Enugu State, South East Nigeria, Professor . Obinna Onodugo, has rated Nigerian Medical Doctors among the best in the world. Speaking at a symposium organized by the Enugu branch of the Association of Catholic Medical Doctors in Enugu […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As Nigeria continues to grapple with challenges in various sectors of the nation’s economy, a media aid to Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, Barr. Steve Oruruo, has said that quality education remains the panacea and bedrock for rapid development as well as national security. Oruruo who is the founder of Steve Oruruo […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has said that 538 illegal migrants were rescued off the Libyan coast and returned to Libya in the past week. “From Sept. 26 to Oct. 2, 538 migrants were rescued/intercepted at sea and returned to Libya,’’ IOM said. So far this year, a total of 25,823 […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Hafsat Ganduje, the wife of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano, has been arrested by EFCC over a bribery and land fraud case reported by her son. The arrest comes weeks after she failed to honour EFCC invite. She had earlier been invited to report to the EFCC’s Abuja headquarters on September 13,. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) and Assembly of Healthcare Professional Associations (AHPA) have suspended their threat to shutdown healthcare services in the country. The unions had earlier threatened to disrupt normal services in hospitals and other healthhcare facilities across the country over Federal Government’s inability to meet their members demands. Mr […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Panic as residents on the District Centre Estate, Phase 4, Kubwa, in the Bwari area council of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja,over the invasion of the Dunamis International Gospel Centre by suspected robbers . The hoodlums were said to have stabbed a security guard, identified only as John, in the stomach and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police Operatives have arrested two principal suspects, aged 12 and 14 for kidnapping a three-year-old boy in Potiskum, Yobe. ASP Dungus Abdulkarim, the Public Relations Officer of the command disclosed this in statement on Tuesday in Damaturu. “The victim, aged three, was kidnapped and later released by his assailants after they collected […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, a former Senate President , has advised youths nursing the ambition to run in the 2023 presidential election to desist from doing so. Saraki disclosed this over the weekend in an Independence lunch with diverse Nigerian youths in Abuja saying that it was already too late for youths […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Disturbed by the current alarming insecurity in South East Nigeria, governors and leaders of the zone will on Tuesday, October 5, 2021, converge in Enugu State for an “urgent meeting to deliberate the unfortunate development. The ugly development has resulted in the deaths of several people in the region, including the recent […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Against the backdrop of the rising security challenges confronting South-East zone, Nigerian nation’s Army, on Monday flagged-off ‘Exercise Golden Dawn’ aimed at checkmating activities of hoodlums in the region. African Examiner reports that the new military operation was flagged-off by the Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Lt. Gen. Farouk Yahaya, who was […]
