(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 […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No fewer than 80 inmates will be granted presidential pardon in lagos state. The exercise was kicked off at the ikoyi correctional center by Mr Abubakar Malami (SAN), the Chairman of the committee and Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice. Malami was represented by Mrs Leticia Ayoola-Daniel, the Lead at […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The global economy lost billions of dollars as Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram as it shut down at about 4.42pm on Monday. According to NetBlocks, which tracks internet outages and their impact, the outage had already cost the global economy about $160m per hour. Facebook stock had gone down by about 5.5 per cent. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has said that the need for a new revenue sharing formula among the three tiers of government is very straightforward self-justifying and in no way controversial. He stated these in his remarks at the opening of a two-day Southwest Zonal public hearing on Review of Revenue […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An FCT High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja have sentenced one Kabiru Oriyomi, 43, to 12 years in prison for raping a 17-year-old girl The convict, a resident of Mai-Angwa, Zone 7, Dutse Alhaji, Abuja, was prosecuted by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP). African Examiner reports […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The General overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Enoch Adeboye, has stated that there are issues with the Nigerian economy as it is issuing 98 percent of its income to service debt. African Examiner writes that Nigeria, in the last first five months (January-May) of 2021, the federal government spent […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Ambassador to Guinea Bissau, Mr John Usanga says there is no record of any Nigerian in any prison in Guinea Bissau. The Envoy disclosed this at the sidelines of the inauguration of a newly constructed Nigeria Chancery building in Bissau, the capital of Guinea Bissau. Usanga said official record of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ikeja Electric Plc , has said that some area under its operational network will experience outage for a period of eight weeks to enable the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, re-conduct its 132KV lines. Mr. Olajide Kumapayi, Chief Technical Officer, Ikeja Electric, made the announcement at a news briefing on Monday in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – National Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, on Monday suspended its 63 days old industrial action. Disclosing this in a chat ,the National President of NARD, Dr Godiya Ishaya said the suspension will take effect on Wednesday, the 6th of October, 2021. He said the decision to suspend the strike was reached after […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governors of the six states of the South-South geo-political zone are currently meeting at the Rivers State Government House, Port Harcourt. Though the agenda for the meeting is not yet known, our correspondent reports that issues of the Value Added Tax and that of the Southern presidency in 2023 are among matters […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Ogun have arrested two suspected kidnappers, Mohammed Abubakar, 42, and Clinton Niche, 18, while trying to collect ransom money at Agbara area of the state. The Police Spokesman in Ogun, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said this on Monday in a statement issued to newsmen in Ota, Ogun. According to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Popular lawyer, Femi Falana, has accused the federal government of treating bandits with kid gloves. African Examiner writes that bandits had in recent months attacked communities in the north-west and the north-central. Falana, in a statement , stated that bandits are not different from Boko Haram insurgents who are regarded as terrorists. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State and Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, have confirmed their participation at the fifth annual conference of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP). The two-day conference with the theme “COVID-19 Pandemic: Recovery and Reconstruction in Nigeria” will take place at the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Experts in Electrical Electronic Engineering have called for integrated ICT broadband rollout for effective surveillance to curb insecurity in the country. The experts made the call at the 7th edition of the Nigerian Institute of Electrical Electronics Engineers (Abuja Chapter) Summit in Abuja. The theme of the summit is “Security Challenges in […]
